Buy charity Mother's Day gifts

Looking for the best Mother’s Day gift ideas?

Mother’s Day is on 30 March 2025. Thankfully, our wide range of meaningful gifts for mothers are an ideal solution.

This year, choose an alternative Mother’s Day gift to show your loved one how much you care whilst supporting the world’s most vulnerable children. Donate sanitary kits to vulnerable girls to help them stay in school during their periods. Feed a child for a month to make an immediate difference. Gift a kitchen garden start kit to help families provide healthy food for their children.

Pick a free e-card to let them know what you've bought on their behalf. Your personalised e-card will be sent straight to their loved ones inbox in less than 48 hours. 

Browse some of the best Mother’s Day charity gifts and learn how you’re transforming lives.

What to get your mum or mother-figure for Mother’s Day

We celebrate Mother’s Day to show them that we’re grateful for everything they do for us. So why not express your love and appreciation by choosing a gift that gives back.

With our wide selection of charity gifts, you can make an immediate and lasting difference in the lives of vulnerable children whilst also showing your loved one you care.

These alternative gifts are incredible Mother's Day gift ideas for mums who are hard to buy for. You’ll make her smile by showing that you care about making a long-lasting difference to children that need it most.

Why not focus on a cause your mum or mother-figure really cares about, or a charity donation gift that you know will mean the most to them. Buying a gift for a keen gardener? Help families improve families' health and livelihoods with 3 seedlings for a tree nursery. Need a present for a passionate cook? Provide emergency food supplies ensure children and families get the nourishment they need.

What are Must Have Gifts?

Must Have Gifts are extra-ordinary charity gifts, giving you the chance to buy a gift for your loved one that supports vulnerable children around the world. You can transform lives and help children living in the world’s hardest places when you buy one of these presents. Must Have Gifts are an ideal way to provide the essentials vulnerable families, communities and children need to survive and thrive.

Each unique charity present in World Vision’s gift catalogue is an item specifically requested by communities to create better futures for their children. When you buy a Mother’s Day charity gift, your donation will be used where the need is greatest. This is why these are some of the best charity gifts in the UK.

By choosing from our charity gifting ideas, you can ensure children are protected today, and empowered for tomorrow.

Pick a free e-card to let them know what you’ve bought on their behalf. For every virtual gift you buy, you’ll be sharing the love with at least two people; your loved one, and a child, family or even a community overseas. Join our charitable supporters in having an immediate and lasting impact today!

How it works

Ordering Must Have Gifts is so easy! Simply follow these steps.

What's new?

In order to make the most of your charity gift donations, we’ve gone digital with our gift cards. This year, you’ll be able to send a personalised e-card to your loved ones when buying from our range of alternative charity gifts. It’s a small change that has a big impact.

By switching to online charity gifts and cards, we’re able to offer a more eco-friendly gift option, and it means your generous donations can reach more children and families living in the world’s toughest places.

Our Promise

Every one of our charity gifts for Mother's Day is specifically requested by communities to create better futures for their children. To make sure we fulfil our promise to deliver these gifts when and where it is needed most, when you buy a Mother's Day charity gift in the UK, your money is pooled together to be used right where the need is greatest. This could be anywhere around the world.

The benefit is real
A real child is benefiting because their community has been given the ‘must have’ help they needed.

The price is real
It has been calculated from actual costs to provide the best and most effective support.

The change is real
Your gift, full of love and compassion, will make a real and lasting difference for children in need – promising them hope for a brighter and happier future, and to become all God intended them to be.

Other ways to support World Vision

Along with these alternative Mother's Day gifts, there are other ways to support the work we do around the world. As a Christian charity, we are inspired by our faith to help children living in some of the hardest places. If you aren’t sure that a charity gift for Mother's Day is right for your recipient or are looking for different ways to donate on your own behalf, you could also consider sponsoring a child, giving a one-off donation or leaving a Gift in Memory.