Alongside their tickets, bus and boat passengers in the Lake District today received mouth-watering samples of iconic Grasmere Gingerbread® to celebrate English Tourism Week (18-27 March). Commemorating the arrival of […]
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Small Cumbrian businesses pull together during lockdown…
AS the UK emerges from its second national lockdown, Grasmere Gingerbread® is championing a host of successful collaborations with other small firms in Cumbria in time for this weekend’s Small […]
Grasmere Gingerbread co-owner Joanne on wearing a sunflower lanyard
THE co-owner of Grasmere Gingerbread® is urging fellow Cumbrian businesses to be aware of customers wearing a ‘sunflower’ lanyard that indicates they suffer from hidden disabilities. Joanne Hunter, 53, began wearing one […]
A taste of Cumbria for the country’s carers from Grasmere Gingerbread
GRASMERE Gingerbread® is in the middle of sending out 200 parcels of its tasty confectionery to hospital wards, nursing homes, paramedics, social care staff and other key workers dealing with […]
‘The Cumbrian Spirit’ is finally home – 4 years after Storm Desmond devastated the county
A train nameplate that gave a morale boost to flood-hit Cumbria – and has now raised £2,000 for a teenage cancer charity – is to go on permanent display at […]
Grasmere Gingerbread® is a global icon – and that's official
Grasmere Gingerbread® has booked itself a place in one of the world’s best-selling publications. The 165-year-old attraction is featured in the newly-published Lonely Planet’s Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist. “I’m not […]
Crumbs! Grasmere Gingerbread raises a mountain of money for Lake District conservation
What was once fed to pigs in Grasmere village has raised a staggering £5,000 for vital conservation work in the Lake District. Ironically, some of the proceeds raised from the […]
Penrith company create Grasmere Gingerbread® ice cream
Milk from heritage cows and historic Grasmere Gingerbread® is combined to create a tasty treat for tourists. Using milk from pedigree Jersey cows that may be traced back to the […]
Samaritans gets a helping hand in April – the cruellest month from Grasmere Gingerbread
Poet TS Eliot’s masterpiece The Wasteland evokes the misery of human depression. Highest suicide & depression rates in spring Its opening line ‘April is the cruellest month’ is a literary […]