Gift guides
Retirement gift guides, by who is retiring.
A boss, a colleague, dad, a teacher, a nurse. Each guide picks what suits the relationship and the budget, with the lead times UK leaving-dos actually run to.
The hardest part of a retirement gift is calibration: too personal from a whole department, too generic from someone who worked alongside them for twenty years. These guides sort the range by that relationship first.
All 8 guides
- Retirement gifts for a boss (Buying a retirement gift for a boss or manager is a particular kind of brief.
- Retirement gifts for colleagues) A workplace retirement gift has one job: to send someone off properly.
- Retirement gifts for dad (A retirement gift for your dad carries more context than most: you know the career, you know what it meant to him, and you know what he is…
- Retirement gifts for grandad) A retirement gift for grandad is often a family gift (something bought together by grandchildren, children, and perhaps a partner who has…
- Retirement gifts for men) Retirement gifts for men tend to be harder to get right than they look.
- Retirement gifts for mum (Buying a retirement gift for your mum is a different brief from buying for a colleague or a friend.
- Retirement gifts for nan) A retirement gift for nan is usually a family occasion (something bought together to mark a career that ran alongside everything else: the…
- Retirement gifts for women) The best retirement gifts for women are the ones that mark the moment properly, not a token gesture, but something made for her and her…
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