Good Gift Guide
The Good Gift Guide will help you find the perfect gift.
City of Parramatta Council's Good Gift Guide makes it easy for you to find wonderful and unique gifts for your loved ones while supporting businesses that make a difference for communities and better the environment.
Organisations featured in the guide include social enterprises, fair trade, ethical purchasing and environmentally friendly businesses, indigenous owned/founded businesses, charities and more.
Feel good this holiday season and make your gifts even more meaningful by supporting businesses that have a positive impact on our community.
Want to know more about the local Parramatta businesses doing good things?
Here they are below!
Beautiful framed pressed flower arrangements made from flowers rescued from events. Buy from their online shop, or arrange to have the fresh flowers from your own event preserved as artworks or donated to hospitals or aged care facilities.
A range of handmade ceramic items including bowls, platters, mugs, jugs, ornamental jewellery and Christmas decorations as well as gift vouchers for classes.
Address: Shop 5, 10-14 Hunter Street, Parramatta.
Upcycled cloth bags and other items, locally made by volunteers from salvaged textiles.
This studio aims to encourage, promote and foster appreciation of arts throughout the local community. Buy artworks or book your loved one in for a workshop or art class! Address: Shop 6, 4-14 Hunter Street, Parramatta.
Send your loved ones on a mouth-watering food adventure in Sydney! Taste Cultural Food Tours is building strong social connections and cross-cultural understanding through unique food tours. The tours also make memorable parties or office events.
Explore the beautiful parks and riverside tracks around Parramatta. You can buy gift vouchers for guided bike tours along the River or you can hire a fleet of bikes for a fun day out for the whole family.
Products from a range of ethical brands, as well as brands created by in-house Avenue Entrepreneurs. Purchasing from Shop Avenue supports people with a disability to work and develop their individual skills regardless of their support needs.
Here you’ll find a range of ethical gifts that are sourced from social enterprises across Australia. You’ll find everything from men’s ethical jewellery to beautiful soy candles, to treats for your puppy dog. These really are goods that do good.
A wonderful collection of children’s picture books. Find award-winning books like ‘Just One Bee’ or an edition of ‘Where Happiness Hides’ in Wiradyuri Language, the First Nations Language of the central-west region of NSW. All profits from their beautiful books go to WestWords, who run literacy programs for young people in Western Sydney.
