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
Gingerbread Lane two-foot tall nutcrackers. The display was certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest gingerbread village on November 22, 2013. Jon Lovitch, a Kansas City, Missouri-born chef, prepares all the ingredients for the display in his apartment, which is located in the South Bronx area of New York City. He often works on the project in the evenings after returning from work at New York’s Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, where he is executive sous chef. Lovitch personally purchases the display’s raw ingredients, which are often sourced from rural grocery stores he encounters while traveling. Lovitch prepares gingerbread, icing