Dear Santa! Local gift guide for kids

Keep little ears toasty in this sweet, 100% cotton fairisle hat with playful pom pom and sequin detail from Marlow’s Angel & Rocket. Matching jumper also available.

£14

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A empowering print with a positive impact. Available in several colours from Buckinghamshire’s Burnt Peach, 20% of each sale is donated to charity Solving Kids Cancer.

From £15

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Make them actually want to tidy up their toys with these funky storage boxes – they’re wipe-clean, easy to pack away flat and also fit neatly into cube stage units. Find them online at Style My Kid, your one-stop-shop for clothes, accessories, gifts and homewares for babies and littlies.

From £24.95

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Funky interiors and gift shop Feather & Nest in Didcot and is a shoe-in for quality pressies. For kids we’re loving this bright and funky origami-style dinosaur bedside light. Grrrr!

£35

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Moooo-ve over boring wellies! Kids will love splashing about in this cute cow design. 100% waterproof, the boots come in sizes 4 – 13. Available from Milton Keynes’ only indie shoe shop Shoedini.

£18

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Banish little chapped lips and put a smile on their face with this unscented, 100% natural beeswax lip balm from Oxfordshire-based family buzz-ness (sorry) Neve’s Bees. The ideal size for slotting in a book bag.

£4.95

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This rugby training ball, created by a PE teacher in South Bucks to help his kids with their spinning, has a unique design at each tip (red lines for passing off the right hand, dark green for passing off the left), so kids can see a perfect spiral rotation when they spin pass properly. Genius! Extra cred for looking cool too.

From £14.99

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Available in several designs (there’s also cute gingerbreads for the festive season) these hairclips from Amersham’s The Leveret will make a sweet stocking filler.

£4

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