5 Sustainable Corporate Gifts from Women-Owned Brands

Sustainable Corporate Gift Ideas for Clients, Employees and Events

Sustainable corporate gifts that don't end up in a drawer. Five ideas from women-owned brands worth knowing about, each one made responsibly and built to last.

Each one comes from a women-owned business. Together, the brands behind these gifts have diverted millions of plastic bottles from landfill, funded clean water projects, and supported artisan communities across the world.

Many of these can be personalised too. Read our complete guide to personalised corporate gifts.

Same budget. Entirely different impact.

The Wood Element Candle

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, wood symbolises growth, flexibility and vision. This candle was designed with that energy in mind. A natural blend of rapeseed and coconut wax, fragranced with sustainably sourced essential oils, in a glass vessel made to be reused long after the candle has burned down. FSC certified packaging throughout. 1% of sales revenue contributed to environmental and social causes.

The kind of gift that earns its place on a desk.

Mindful Affirmations for Health and Wellbeing

Fifty-two cards for the colleague who's always juggling too much. Each one a small prompt to pause, breathe and reset. Produced by a certified carbon neutral company, committed to World Land Trust and ClimatePartner for habitat protection and carbon offsetting.

Practical, useful, and quietly different from anything else in the office.

Canvas and Leather Wine Carrier

Made by artisans in Argentina who have been working with natural materials for generations. Undyed cotton canvas, vegetable tanned leather, no synthetic dyes, no unnecessary processing.

The kind of gift that tells a story before it's even opened.

Waterproof Backpack

This backpack started life as 48 plastic bottles. Now it goes to every meeting, every airport and every offsite. PETA approved, vegan and water resistant. Saves 6.7kg of carbon dioxide and 9.9 litres of water compared to a backpack made from virgin polyester.

Good for the person. Better for the planet.

Wind Resistant Umbrella

A women-owned business in the UK with one mission: keep plastic out of landfill. Over 3 million post-consumer plastic bottles already recycled, with a target of 10 million by 2030. Every umbrella can be personalised with your company logo. Every one part of something bigger.

Small gesture. Big mission.

What these gifts have in common

Every one comes from a women-owned business. Every one carries a story worth telling. Every one is made to be kept, used, remembered.

For more on why the gifts you choose say more than you think, read our piece on what your corporate gifts say about you

The bin is the enemy of good gifting. The gifts on this list don't end up there.

Plan your gifting

Browse our Corporate Gifts collection for something that fits your brief, then speak to our Gift Concierge to personalise it. Can't find quite the right fit? Our Gift Concierge can source it directly from our network of women-owned brands.

Your brief, our network of women-owned brands. Let's get started.

10 Million Women Gifting Team