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 follows a similar plotline about a pancake whose hubris gets the best of him. Modern twists on the tale that retain a gingerbread man as the protagonist include Janet Squires' "The Gingerbread Cowboy"; "The Gingerbread Kid Goes to School" (2002) by Joan Holub; and Lisa Campbell's "The Gingerbread Girl" (2006). In 1992 Jon Sciezka published "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales". "The Stinky Cheese Man" is a rendition of "The Gingerbread Man" where the stinky cheese man runs away from everyone fearing that they will eat him, when really everyone just wants to get away from his