Secret Santa Gifts Under £15: 8 ideas for the office and your friends
Updated 25 October 2026
You've pulled a name out of a mug, it's someone from accounts you've spoken to twice, and the limit is £15. Here are eight presents that work for almost anyone, from a £4 chocolate bar to a bulb that flowers after the decorations come down. All from UK shops and checked on 25 October 2026.
Amaryllis Picotee Premium Gift Pack
A bulb, a peat-free compost pellet and a pot in a gift box. Add water, find a warm windowsill and it flowers between December and February at about 30cm tall, long after everyone else's Secret Santa has been forgotten.
Photo: JeepersMedia, CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/39160147@N03/12704817083
National Railway Museum Flying Scotsman Rubber Duck
An apple-green duck with the Flying Scotsman nameplate on its chest and 4472 in gold along its side. For the colleague who knows the train times better than the timetable does, or anyone with a bare desk.
Photo: DaGoaty, CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/58169987@N00/4254290657
Grandma Wild's Embossed Highland Cow Tin
Stem ginger and lemon biscuits and clotted cream chocolate chip shortbread, in an embossed tin with a Highland cow wearing a sprig of holly. The biscuits go in a day and the tin stays for the next forty years.
Photo: Mark Morgan Trinidad B, CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/46102325@N06/50365055021
"Oh… This Calls For A Spreadsheet" Enamel Pin Badge
A 3cm enamel pin on a backing card in a silver envelope, for the person who answers every problem with a new tab. The maker will add a small bow and a gift tag for free if you leave a note at checkout.
See it at The Little Pin Co. on Not On The High Street
Photo: muir.ceardach, CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/35927320@N03/4549636420
Montezuma's Dark Milk Chocolate Stollen Bar, 90g
Dark milk chocolate with candied orange and roasted almonds, like a slice of stollen in bar form. Good for a £5 limit, or as a little extra on top of something else.
Photo: John Loo, CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/8510225@N07/606739059
Photo bauble ours
If you know them well enough to have a good photo (the office dog counts), we print it on a bauble with a name and the year underneath and a ribbon to hang it. You see a proof first.
Sophie Allport Christmas Puddings Tea Towel
A cotton tea towel covered in illustrated Christmas puddings, 65 x 45cm with a hanging loop. Ideal for the office kitchen, where nobody has ever owned up to the last one.
Photo: Smabs Sputzer (1956-2017), CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/10413717@N08/11615171525
John Adams Rummikub Travel Game
The tile game where you make runs and groups and try to get rid of all your tiles first, in a travel-sized set. Watch out for the Joker: if he's still on your rack at the end, that's 30 points against you.
Photo: ella novak, CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/82547169@N00/3600358059
Prices can change before the office party, so check before you order. And if you end up with a candle you didn't want, there's always next year's Secret Santa.
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