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We’re sending your our third Christmas gift guide at the end of a busy 2013. We’ve not only become nine strong in our ninth year: we’ve also moved house. You can now find us at 54B Downham Road, and you can find each of these gifts within walking distance of our new home.
Here’s wishing you a fantastic holiday period, and all the very best in 2014.
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Anna’s Gift
Multicoloured Allen key set
£18 (or £16 for members; membership £10pa)
Found at London Bike Kitchen
28 Whitmore Road, London, N1 5QA
Get directions in Google Maps
A non-profit DIY workshop where you can work on your own bike – they run courses, or you can drop in with your bike to use any tool you can think of. Members get a discount on everything from inner tubes to lights. Better than Evans.
lbk.org.uk
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Brendan’s Gift
Cycle Love Buddy Tote Bag
£12
Found at CycleLux
258 Kingsland Road, London, E8 4DG
Get directions in Google Maps
Some of the finest gifts, for people who like bikes. From our friends at CycleLove. And an extra gift from them to you is the voucher code ‘withlinks’ which gives free postage on purchases over £20 to the first 10 With Associates associates 🙂
cyclelux.cc
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Calum’s Gift
Fairtrade Coffee & Goken Honey Farm Blossom Honey
£11.55
Found at Bread & Butter Farmhouse Cafe
Enfield Rd, London, N1 5AX
Get directions in Google Maps
Lovely new café in the area. Scrambled eggs that will change your life!
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Erin’s Gift
Rhubarb & Cardamom and Cranberry & Wild Fennel jams
£10 (£5 each)
Found at A Little Of What You Fancy
464 Kingsland Rd, London, E8 4AE
Get directions in Google Maps
Going by the quality of their food, this jam should be pretty damn good. Failing that, how good will these labels look in your fridge! The first bite is with the eye remember.
alittleofwhatyoufancy.info
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Jamie’s Gift
Emerald glass tumbler by Stephen Newell
£17.50
Found at The Millinery Works
85/87 Southgate Road, London, N1 3JS
Get directions in Google Maps
Formerly a hat factory (thus the name), now a gallery and trader in British Arts and Crafts furniture.
millineryworks.co.uk | artforglass.co.uk/snewell.html
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Jenifer’s Gift
How to read pattern – A crash course in textile design
£9.99
Found at Geffrye Museum
136 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA
Get directions in Google Maps
Apparently the shop is going online in 2014 – not sure if it’ll recreate the experience of walking through the museum to get to the physical shop inside the museum but there will be lots of unusual trinkets to buy I hope.
geffrye-museum.org.uk
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Joseph’s Gift
Biscuit Selection
Tin not included
£6
Found at Better Health Bakery
13 Stean Street, London, E8 4ED
Get directions in Google Maps
Better Health Bakery, part of the Centre for Better Health, is a charitable artisan bakery based in Haggerston. As a social enterprise they bring the community together by promoting locally produced food and providing three month trainee placements to adults recovering from mental ill health.
betterhealthbakery.wordpress.com
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Mathew’s Gift
You’re All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack
£12.99
Found at Tom Gauld’s Studio
100 de Beauvoir Road, London, N1 4EN
Get directions in Google Maps
A selection of the weekly cartoons created for the Guardian, by one of the many lovely people back at our old studio.
Buy on Tom’s own site or on Amazon
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Tom’s Gift
No Visible Means of Support by Vanessa Billy
2006, Full Colour, H23cm x W17cm, 40 Pages
£10
Found at Limoncello Gallery
340-344 Kingsland Road, London, E8 4DA
Get directions in Google Maps
Limoncello is a tiny art gallery on Kingsland Road.
limoncellogallery.co.uk
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