
The Award categories
The Gift of the Year Awards aims to cover all the categories within the giftware and homeware world, from jewellery to games right through to sustainable products and cards, stationery and wrap.
With twenty categories to choose from there should be a place for your products. We are constantly changing our categories to be inline with giftware trends and ensure we capture what’s going on in our industry. Take a look below at this years categories to find our more info on what the judges are looking for as well as seeing previous years winners.
Overall Winner 2025
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Beauty, Bath & Spa

Branded Gift

Cards, Wraps & Stationery

Children's, Educational and Pre-School

Contemporary Gift

Design & Craft

Ethical and Sustainable Gift

Fashion Accessories, Textiles and Jewellery

Festive & Occasions

Food & Drink

Games and Puzzles

Garden and Outdoors

Health & Wellbeing and Accessible Gifts

Heritage Gifts incorporating Commemorative, Collectable and Charitable

Home and Kitchen

Home Fragrance

Made in the UK

Novelty, Tech And Gadgets
