About Us

History
Campus Gifts was created in the summer of 2004 and first went live on 23rd September. It was developed by Joel Adams who was at the time a full time 2nd year History and Politics student at the Univeristy of Warwick. When he first went to Warwick in October 2003 Joel quickly discovered that for students living on campus, buying gifts for family and friends was not very easy. The choice on campus was very limited, and travelling into town was not always convenient. Like most students, he spent a lot of time on the web, but found it difficult to find unusual gifts there, with very few sites devoted to young fun ideas.

A Sound Retail Background
Joel’s parents, Mike and Sheena, have run their own gift business (Temptation Gifts Ltd.) for many years, with a number of stores and a website. So having been brought up in this environment, Joel approached his parents and put forward a proposal to build a new website, for students. Thinking about the kind of site he and his friends would enjoy using, he worked over the summer of 2004, designing the style and content of the site himself. Tapping into his parents’ contacts and expertise, he gradually sourced the kind of gifts which he felt would appeal to a student market, and things began to take shape. Thirteen weeks after starting work, the site went live just before the start of Autumn Term 2004, with approaching 1000 products.

Onwards and Upwards!
Since then the site has expanded rapidly, and is now one of the most successful sites of its kind on the web, with constantly updated products, and great value special offers for students and young people in general. CampusGifts is proud to be the unchallenged best site in the WORLD for Edward Monkton products!

Philosophy
A quick word from creator and business development manager, Joel Adams.

What I hope I’ve done with Campus Gifts is create a site which is fun to use, fun to browse, and which has great stuff for everyone who's a student and everyone who would still love to be.

It’s no secret that students don’t have a lot of ready cash, so we’ve made the prices on the site as low as possible. What matters is that you buy the right gift, not the most expensive gift. It’s also important to be able to trust the people you’re dealing with. I want everyone who shops at Campus Gifts to feel confident that if they have a problem with what they have bought, we will do everything we can to solve that problem. (See our Guarantee and Returns Policy).

A good business should always try to work in partnership with its customers, and that’s the philosophy behind Campus Gifts. The site is continuously evolving, and we are always happy to get ideas and comments from our customers on ways we can improve, or products you would like us to add to the site. I hope you like the site. And, if you do, tell your friends! We can’t afford a national advertising campaign, but the student ‘grapevine’ will work just as well! Anyway, thanks for visiting Campus Gifts.
Joel

www.CampusGifts.co.uk is wholly owned by Temptation (Gifts) Ltd, Registered Office, 6, Sycamore Road, Amersham Bucks HP6 5DR. The company registration number is 2294820 and the company is registered in England.