Shop Local: Spring Pop-up brings top indie brands to Grantchester
21 March 2025
Shop Local: Spring Pop-up brings top indie brands to Grantchester
21 March 2025It’s the Pop-up Market that promises to put a spring in your step: visit Grantchester to shop everything from preloved chic to artisan food and drink
Mother’s Day: Buy her the perfect PJs and support a stellar cause
16 March 2025
Mother’s Day: Buy her the perfect PJs and support a stellar cause
16 March 2025It’s a win-win: treat mum (or yourself) to these fab PJs and support adoption charity Coram in the process
Food News: Dine out for a fiver, book a banquet and join a party. . .
14 March 2025
Food News: Dine out for a fiver, book a banquet and join a party. . .
14 March 2025From dining out for a fiver to a four-day party weekend, these are the foodie offers and events not to miss across Cambridge and Suffolk
Win: Two bottles of Cambridgeshire’s award-winning Renaissance Vodka – worth £78
14 March 2025
Win: Two bottles of Cambridgeshire’s award-winning Renaissance Vodka – worth £78
14 March 2025Yet to try Cambridgeshire’s award-winning Renaissance Vodka? Now’s your chance to win two bottles – worth a total £78
Win: A set of Green People superhero hair products – worth £55
14 March 2025
Win: A set of Green People superhero hair products – worth £55
14 March 2025Locks looking a little lacklustre? Read on for your chance to win a trio of Green People superhero hair products. . .
Fashion: Cambridge’s lovely new Lucy & Yak store opens today!
14 March 2025
Fashion: Cambridge’s lovely new Lucy & Yak store opens today!
14 March 2025Cambridge’s Lucy & Yak store cuts the ribbon on its new – much bigger! – site on Sussex Street today
Pop-up: Shop local for fragrance, fashion and more at Cambridge’s Neptune store
14 March 2025
Pop-up: Shop local for fragrance, fashion and more at Cambridge’s Neptune store
14 March 2025Cambridge’s Neptune store is hosting a three-day styling and shopping event – featuring some of our favourite independent brands. . .
Win: A pair of sparkling Amelia Scott bumblebee studs – worth £89
07 March 2025
Win: A pair of sparkling Amelia Scott bumblebee studs – worth £89
07 March 2025What better Mother’s Day gift for your family’s ‘Queen Bee’? We’re giving away a pair of sparkling Amelia Scott Beatrice bumblebee studs. . .
Body Beautiful: The Ely photographer empowering women to love the skin they’re in
07 March 2025
Body Beautiful: The Ely photographer empowering women to love the skin they’re in
07 March 2025“Dear reader: you are enough. Your body shape, size, colour, and ability do not define you.” Photographer Luana Martignon talks to Velvet
Shop Independent: Presents to make Mother’s Day
07 March 2025
Shop Independent: Presents to make Mother’s Day
07 March 2025It’s Mothering Sunday this month. Velvet finds gifts guaranteed to make mums feel special - all from independent brands
Real Life: My journey from homeless teen to top entrepreneur
07 March 2025
Real Life: My journey from homeless teen to top entrepreneur
07 March 2025Newmarket’s Inge Hunter started her first business aged just 17, while living in a Cambridge homeless hostel. As told to Alice Ryan
Launch: Cambridge turns into Tea Town for Bird & Blend collab
28 February 2025
Launch: Cambridge turns into Tea Town for Bird & Blend collab
28 February 2025This could be the cutest (and most British) collab ever: Bird & Blend has cut the ribbon on a Mr Men and Little Miss tea collection
Win: A Spa, Dine & Stay package for two at Suffolk’s Talbooth House – worth £395!
28 February 2025
Win: A Spa, Dine & Stay package for two at Suffolk’s Talbooth House – worth £395!
28 February 2025It’ll soon be Mothering Sunday. Does your mum deserve a celebratory spa break? Read on for your chance to win exactly that. . .
Beauty: Meet the founders of three way-paving natural brands
28 February 2025
Beauty: Meet the founders of three way-paving natural brands
28 February 2025Creating products that are as kind to people and the planet as they are to our skin, we meet the local founders of three natural beauty brands
Pottery Throw Down: In the studio with star potters from Cambridge and Suffolk
21 February 2025
Pottery Throw Down: In the studio with star potters from Cambridge and Suffolk
21 February 2025Love watching The Great Pottery Throw Down? You’ll love the pieces produced by these three Cambridge and Suffolk potters. . .
Exhibition: Shutter Hub OPEN brings world photography to Cambridge
21 February 2025
Exhibition: Shutter Hub OPEN brings world photography to Cambridge
21 February 2025Bringing photography from around the world to Cambridge, the annual Shutter Hub OPEN runs until March 21. Velvet meets the local talents taking part
Win: A Happy Pear food, drink and cookbook bundle
21 February 2025
Win: A Happy Pear food, drink and cookbook bundle
21 February 2025Win a food, drink and cookbook bundle from plant-based pioneers The Happy Pear – worth more than £50!
Event: Enjoy an evening of Me Time at Chittering’s Willow Grange
14 February 2025
Event: Enjoy an evening of Me Time at Chittering’s Willow Grange
14 February 2025Fancy an evening of fizz, fashion, interiors and wellbeing? Book tickets for this new Me Time event at Chittering’s Willow Grange Farm
Win: A Bird & Blend tea, matcha and journaling gift set – worth £60
14 February 2025
Win: A Bird & Blend tea, matcha and journaling gift set – worth £60
14 February 2025Here’s a treat: Bird & Blend is giving away a self-caring tea set with Velvet this month – worth £60!
Love Tokens: Velvet shops local for Valentine gifts with heart
12 February 2025
Love Tokens: Velvet shops local for Valentine gifts with heart
12 February 2025A thoughtfully chosen gift speaks a thousand words. Velvet shops local for Valentine’s Day
