Gingerbread (charity) her marriage, Tessa Fothergill, a mother from London struggling with economic difficulties as a single parent, set up a local self-help group for others in a similar position. Fothergill was featured in the "Sunday Times", and the response from other single parents resulted in the creation of Gingerbread as a grassroots organisation providing community-level support for single parents. The name 'Gingerbread' came about after Fothergill saw a cafe called 'Golden Age Gingerbread' and liked the name. The National Council for One Parent Families and Gingerbread merged in 2007, and relaunched under the name Gingerbread in 2009. Head offices for Gingerbread
The Gingerbread Man (musical) libretto in 1977, and reprinted it in 1999. Methuen Drama also reprinted it in the 1999 anthology "David Wood Plays, Vol. 1", for their Contemporary Dramatists series. Wood later adapted the play into a series of 13 screenplays, which became a stop motion-animated children's television series also called "The Gingerbread Man". The series was co-produced by FilmFair and Central Independent Television in 1991, and broadcast on ITV in 1992. The Gingerbread Man (musical) The Gingerbread Man is a two-act musical play written by David Wood, based on the 19th-century fairy tale, "The Gingerbread Man". It premiered in 1976 at the