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Recent TV programmes to feature The Grasmere Gingerbread Shop include impressionist Rory Bremner’s Great British Views, comedian Adrian Edmondson’s Ade in Britain and ITV’s flagship popular daytime show This Morning. “It’s always exciting working with television crews,” said Joanne Hunter, a partner in the business.It’s great fun for our staff and customers who get a close-up view of celebrities and how popular programmes that millions of people watch are actually made.”
The Grasmere Gingerbread Shop also works closely with authors and reporters looking for stories about traditional businesses with an unusual story to tell. “Sarah Nelson, who of course invented Grasmere Gingerbread in 1854, is an amazing example of a pioneering businesswoman from a working-class background who succeeded against all the odds, said Joanne. “Her personal story, and struggles against huge personal loss including the deaths of her children from cholera and tuberculosis in Victorian times, still resonates today and always arouses the curiosity of writers.”
The Grasmere Gingerbread Shop generates regular media releases and photo opportunities for journalists and gets involved in newsworthy fund-raising for local causes and charities such as Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Great North Air Ambulance and Nurture Lakeland.
Joanne Hunter talks about family business with broadcaster, comedian and keynote public speaker Emma Stroud in her latest podcast. Journalist Alan Air previews their verbal bout. Read More
GRASMERE Gingerbread® is using its online shop to stock many new products by its Cumbrian artisan suppliers with many more coming down the pipeline in the next weeks.
They include an eco-friendly 65% alcohol hand sanitiser by Pure Lakes, homemade fudges by Country Flavour, jewellery by Tilly Mint Silver and even pocket hug cards by Invite you to the do.
At the start of the Covid-19 outbreak we appealed to our customers to nominate doctors, nurses, carers and other people working in frontline services who might appreciate a gift of Grasmere Gingerbread®.
It coincided with one engaged couple who donated their Grasmere Gingerbread® wedding favours to their local hospital after Covid-19 forced their wedding to be cancelled. Click here to see their story.
WHEN a couple’s wedding in the Peak District was postponed because of Covid 19 they overcame their disappointment by thinking of others.
Having ordered 100 Grasmere Gingerbread® wedding favours, they immediately donated them to the staff at their local Croydon University Hospital.
Grasmere Gingerbread® raised £1,600 for Shelter, the charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in England and Scotland.
Appropriately, a cheque was presented to Sylvie Leonard, Shop Manager of Carlisle Shelter, outside The Grasmere Gingerbread Shop that, in 1854, solved one working-class family’s desperate housing crisis.
PUTTING your boyfriend on the spot is tough enough at the best of times.
But as 2020 is a leap year you can jump to it and propose to him on February 29.
A TRAIN name plate with an amazing track record has gone on permanent public display in Carlisle thanks to Grasmere Gingerbread®. Read More
Grasmere Gingerbread® has urged local businesses to support mental health charities in Cumbria.
After donating £1,000 to Growing Well – a Kendal-based mental health charity and organic fruit and vegetable enterprise that helps people recover from depression and other mental health problems – Joanne Hunter, co-owner of Grasmere Gingerbread®, described her own personal battles.
Grasmere Gingerbread® is a global icon – and that’s official!
It has booked itself a place in one of the world’s best-selling publications.
165 years after it was first made and started attracting curious visitors to its door, Grasmere Gingerbread® has been formally recognised by Cumbria Tourism (CT). Read More
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 sale of Grasmere Gingerbread® crumbs helped repair crumbling footpaths in the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
“We started donating £1 from every bag of crumbs sold to the charity Nurture Lakeland a few years ago,” explained Joanne Hunter, co-owner of the 165-year-old business.
Grasmere Gingerbread® is in the running for the 2019 Cumbria Tourism Makers & Producers Award.
