SmellTaste launches Christmas 2025 fundraising appeal
We’re excited to launch the SmellTaste 2025 Festive Fundraising Appeal in partnership with our amazing volunteer and print-maker Jimi Harrison. Jimi has created a range of items that will make great gifts for friends and family, whilst also helping raise awareness of smell and taste impairments.
After the success of the 2024 campaign Jimi has increased the range of items he has made, and added two brand new flavours to the designs: dried fruit and mixed spices.
All the items for sale are listed below. Each one can be purchased via PayPal by clicking the link below each item. Prices include postage and packaging.
The deadline for purchases to ensure postage before Christmas is 16th December,
Alternatively, please make a donation to support SmellTaste this Christmas to help support our vital work.
Please consider setting up a regular monthly donation. Regular donations, no matter how big or small, help support our ongoing work.
Christmas fundraiser items
Digital Christmas card – £5
Click here to buy this digital image to send to family, friends and colleagues as a Christmas greeting and to help raise awareness of smell and taste impairments.
Original artwork – £25
Limited edition, handprinted and signed original art work on 5″ x 5″ card.
Tote bag – £25
Limited edition SmellTaste tote bag
Set of coasters – £35
Limited edition set of 7 printed coasters
Coaster – £7
Limited edition coaster
SmellTaste mug – £10 each
Limited edition mug
SmellTaste magnet – £8 each
Limited edition magnet to pop on your fridge or workspace to remind people about smell and taste impairments.
Christmas decoration – £9 each
Limited edition. Add a little something to your tree to remind people about smell and taste impairments.
Framed print – £100
Handprinted and signed framed print. Only one available to buy.
About Jimi Harrison
Jimi, who is from Dundee, Scotland, does not recall ever having a sense of smell. His idea for the SmellTaste Christmas appeal is based on his ‘Past Certainties’ series which isolates objects, showing a disconnect felt by so many with smell and taste impairments.
Like several other SmellTaste members, Jimi found support lacking from his ENT clinic. This has made him determined to raise awareness of these unrecognised and marginalised issues and, through SmellTaste, he will soon help to train future GPs at Dundee School of Medicine to understand smell and taste impairment through our new Dundee social action project.
Jimi’s work has different themes across many disciplines, often exploring connections with his home and the objects that are important to his sense of family. He, his wife, Kathy, and young daughter, Bethan, sell their work through family-run printmaking and design company, Beebirdsprints.
Looking ahead — an invitation to fellow artists
As this year’s campaign comes to life, we hope that even more artists and designers within the SmellTaste community — and beyond — will join Jimi next year in creating unique festive gifts and artworks that help raise awareness and funds for our cause.
Jimi reflects on his experience:
“This has been a project of love and labour. I love sharing and helping people, which was the reason I spent a large part of my adult life working in education — and this has been no different. I’m very proud to be helping folk who have similar challenges to me, and I’m humbled to have been given a platform through which I can make a difference. It’s great to be the artist for the second year in a row for SmellTaste’s Christmas 2025 campaign.
If you’ve enjoyed seeing the 5 x 5 campaign unfold, I have a vision of passing the baton in 2027. My intention is to raise a team of artists and designers within SmellTaste to share the designs and lighten the load. There are many talented artists here, and it would be wonderful to collaborate — whether by adding new flavours to the 5 x 5 project or creating something entirely new.”
We share Jimi’s vision for a creative and collaborative future, where members of the SmellTaste community contribute their own interpretations of how scent, flavour, and emotion connect. If you’re an artist or maker who would like to get involved in next year’s festive fundraising appeal, we’d love to hear from you.
