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
Kraków gingerbread Kraków gingerbread Kraków gingerbread or Kraków gingerbreads (, plural ) is a variety of gingerbread from Kraków, Poland. Since the 14th century, when Kraków was the capital of Poland, the city was known for its gingerbreads, popular across the land at least as much as the gingerbreads of Toruń and Nuremberg. The spicey dough ("pierne", hence the name) was pressed into elaborate wooden molds with carved images, baked and reportedly kept around for up to 20 years. Before World War II and up until 1940, the most famous producer of Kraków Gingerbreads was the local company called Rothe on ul.