The Food Partnership's Christmas gift guide, from Sussex beef to salami

Brighton & Hove Food Partnership^1,2,14 has published its Festive Food and Gift Guide for 2026: local food and drink to give, classes, and the makers’ fairs on before Christmas. We’ve taken its food picks and added prices and order dates from the producers’ own pages.

Meat, charcuterie and wine

The Food Partnership’s own meat box scheme, Sussex Grazed, sells meat from Sussex graziers and deer managers who manage land for habitat recovery. The current round closes at 5pm on Thursday 10 December, and orders are ready on Friday 11 December, 3pm to 5pm. Frozen cuts are collected from the Food Partnership Clubhouse.

Right now the shop lists frozen beef from a Sussex Red heifer at Saddlescombe Farm, from £4.13, and lamb from Clapham Farm, from £3.20. There is mutton from the Sussex Wildlife Trust’s flocks, and Asthi bone broth made with beef or wild venison bones, at £12 for 500ml or £19 a litre. The guide says Dexter beef boxes are coming back as a Christmas special, though they aren’t on the shop yet.

Curing Rebels^5,6,7,8,9 cures and smokes its charcuterie at its HQ, Unit 13, Hove Enterprise Centre on Basin Road North. Gift boxes cost £35 for the Little Rebel, £45 for the Born Winner and £79 for the Big Boy. The Little Rebel holds two salamis, coffee-cured coppa and nduja, with free delivery. Christmas pre-orders are open, and you pick a delivery or collection date in the basket. Collection is free, Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, with 24 hours’ notice. The company says final Christmas dispatch dates will come “closer to Christmas”.

Butler’s Wine Cellar^12,13, at 88 St George’s Road in Kemp Town, sells Sussex wine, local beer and spirits, the guide says. Local delivery to BN1, BN2 and BN3 costs £2.99, or nothing over £40, Monday to Friday.

Chocolate and cookery

Audrey’s^10,11 has made chocolates in Sussex since 1948, and its shop is on Holland Road. You can build your own box, from nine pieces up to 70.

The Food Partnership’s Community Kitchen on Queens Road has put its 2027 cookery classes on sale. You can buy a place on one class or a gift voucher. Profits from the classes pay for its community cookery work.

For gardeners, the guide suggests a talk at Seedy Sunday, at Brighton Corn Exchange on 7 February 2027. Entry is by donation on the day. The Dome’s page says tickets for the programme of talks go on sale this autumn.

The guide also points to Harriet’s of Hove¹⁶, a plant-based refill shop that runs workshops on low-waste living, and to Infinity Foods for natural skincare and eco-friendly gifts.

Makers’ fairs

The guide lists makers’ fairs across the city. The Maker’s Fair runs its Kemptown Fair on 14 November, a Fiveways Fair on 21 November and a Hove Christmas Fair on 5 December. The Grand Winter Makers Fair is at the British Engineerium on 21 and 22 November. The Brighton Etsy Christmas Fair is on 5 December and the Brighton Festive Makers Fair on 12 and 13 December. The guide doesn’t give venues or times for most of them, so check with the organisers before you go.