Is The Present Club Still in Business? (2026 Update)
The Present Club has wound downAmazon still lists similar products in this category.
Browse similar products on AmazonFull story →Georgette Hewitt pitched a website letting friends and family club together to fund a present no single person could afford alone, taking the idea into series 9, episode 1.
Official records confirm this one closed.
Two retail-minded Dragons said yes
Hewitt wanted £60,000 for 30% of the business, and Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis funded it together. Both men built their Den reputations on consumer and retail instinct, and this kind of family-focused gifting idea sat squarely within territory either of them already knew.
Following the Dragons' input, the service reportedly widened past children's gifts to cover weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, baby gifts, end-of-term presents for teachers and even corporate incentives, casting a much wider net than the original pitch.
What the record actually shows
Companies House lists THE PRESENT CLUB LTD as dissolved, with a formal dissolution date of 19 September 2017. Its old web address, thepresentclub.co.uk, now serves nothing more than a parked coming-soon placeholder.
Group-gifting was already getting crowded by the mid-2010s, with mainstream retailers building their own collection tools and newer apps entering the same space, a tough environment for an earlier mover with no visible activity left to compete in it.
The straightforward verdict
The company shut down years ago, and the domain today is not associated with any working checkout or gift-collection tool.
Anyone who remembers this one from television and assumes it simply moved or rebranded should know the paper trail says otherwise, dissolution, then a parked page, nothing more.