Moonstone  Right up the top of my list, 6 minis a side and for 220 you could get a fair chunk of two forces

Bot War Firestorm have some stock in Wales, giant stompy robots punching face

Age of Penda range of 18mm historical stuff easy book to pick up different game

WoFun massive and ever expanding range of flats starter sets come with a simple ruleset

Assassin Creed they tell me it’s based on an arcade video game

Dead Man’s Hand Cowboys, that is all

that should get you started

Dead Man’s Hand is a great suggestion, miniatures are available from a ton of places, and who doesn’t like some old west gun fights

If you like solo/coop boardgames then Journeys in Middle Earth bt FFG… you could probably get the core and both expansions with the budget. Miniatures to paint of course. And if you want to replace the the cardboard terrain with 3D they look on Etsy.

Actually… just look at Etsy anyway… some great stuff there.

Carnevale by TT Combat has some great minatures if you don’t mind resin. Starter is available. If you want something different with larger scale mini there’s Rumbleslam… fantasy wrestling.

Privateer Press have some great stuff for Warmachine/Hordes.

Village Attacks by Grimlord Games is coop boardgame where you play the monsters. Castle Defence. They also do Endure the Stars if you want SF miniatures game.

And with that sort of budget you could always go for one of those really expensive games you wouldn’t buy for yourself… Gloomhaven for example. Not many miniatures of course.

MDF kits is a good idea. E.g. if Waterloo is your thing Sarissa do the three big farmhouses.  One of those, Plancenoit and a couple of smaller buildings would fill your budget and we all know that buying terrain is a virtue.

On the subject of terrain, one thing that would challenge most of our budgets is a castle. You could pick up a good lot of Renedra plastic castle bits. A big centerpiece model to mark the occasion.

That or £220 fancy booze ?

If it needs to be “something physical” are vouchers an option? So you don’t need to go mental just now and save some up for later projects?

Other options that perhaps aren’t as “Ooooh SHINEY”, but perhaps more useful…..

Some form of gaming table, OR storage options (such as the EKET ones from Ikea). I bought something similar to the EKET range from Ikea (some with normal doors, some with glass doors, shelves and lighting as display cabinets, and some just “open” to use as bookshelves), and have always said it was probably the best wargaming spend I ever made (rather than another half finished army/game).

3d resin printer. Even a mono screen 4k is less than £200 at the minute. But any of them (even the original non-monos) are great little “starter” machines. Collecting stls from patreon is like a crack habit.