THREE ‘Golden Tickets’ will deliver cash prizes of £170 to Grasmere Gingerbread® customers during its ongoing 170th anniversary celebrations. The special gold and green coupons will be placed inside 12-piece tins of Grasmere Gingerbread® and sold online during August, September and October.
“It’s our way of saying ‘thank you’ to our customers who have helped to make Grasmere Gingerbread® what it is today,” said Joanne Hunter, co-director of the historic Lake District business.
Victorian cook Sarah Nelson invented Grasmere Gingerbread® in 1854 and sold it from a tree stump outside her Church Cottage home - now The Grasmere Gingerbread Shop.
170 years later Grasmere Gingerbread® is feted by royalty, leading chefs, celebrities and has been sent to customers in 80 countries across the world.
Since taking over the business from her parents in 2000, Joanne Hunter and husband Andrew have transformed Grasmere Gingerbread® from a small cottage industry that employed three people into a global ambassador for the Lake District that now has 30 members of staff.
Last year it opened its second shop in Hawkshead which is also very popular with visitors.
“We have always seen ourselves as custodians of Sarah Nelson’s culinary legacy and feel immense pride that her wonderful Grasmere Gingerbread® is enjoyed by so many people,” said Joanne.
Terms & Conditions
- Entry into the Golden Ticket £170 cash draw is only valid when purchasing a 12 piece presentation tin during the months of August, September and October from the official Grasmere Gingerbread® online shop. Each month a winner will be randomly drawn from all purchases made that month.
- The Golden Ticket £170 cash prize offer is only open to UK residents aged 18 or over, excluding employees, representatives and officers of Grasmere Gingerbread®, partner brands, their agents or anyone professionally connected with the prize draw and any of their immediate family members.
- By accepting the Golden Ticket £170 cash prize, winners agree that they will participate in any reasonable publicity arranged by us and agree to be bound by our terms and conditions. The decision of Grasmere Gingerbread® is final and binding in all matters relating to the Golden Ticket £170 cash prize offer.
- The Golden Ticket £170 cash prize offer is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administrated by, or associated with Facebook, Instagram or X.
- The Golden Ticket £170 cash prize offer is being run by Grasmere Gingerbread®. Details of the Golden Ticket £170 cash prize offer winners (first names and counties of their addresses) are available 14 days after the draw dates of 30/8/2024, 30/9/2024 and 31/10/2024 by writing to The Grasmere Gingerbread Shop, Church Cottage, Grasmere, Ambleside LA22 9SW and enclosing a stamped self-addressed envelope.
August Winner
£170 sent to Coventry…
ON her first-ever purchase of Grasmere Gingerbread®, Rachael Morgan won a £170 Golden Ticket.
“It’s the most amazing gingerbread in the world,” said the 40-year-old accounts assistant from Coventry.
After researching her ancestry and discovering she was 26 per cent Cumbrian, self-confessed foodie Rachael went on an internet search of Cumbrian culinary delicacies.
“At the same time I needed a new biscuit barrel so when I came across the Grasmere Gingerbread® website I decided to buy a 12-piece tin,” she explained.
“I couldn’t believe it when I realised I had won £170 and when I tasted Grasmere Gingerbread® for the first time I thought it was absolutely delicious.
“I’ve only got four slices left, it is so moreish.”
As well as now being addicted to Grasmere Gingerbread®, Rachael is ordering a bag of Grasmere Gingerbread® crumbs to make a Key lime pie.
“I think the ginger and lime will go together brilliantly,” she said.
Joanne Hunter, co-director of Grasmere Gingerbread® was thrilled that Rachel’s first-ever experience of Grasmere Gingerbread® was complemented by a Golden Ticket.
“I hope that Rachel spends the money on something special,” she said.
September Winner
Jackie with her winning Golden Ticket in front of a treasured Heaton Cooper painting of Rydal Water near Grasmere in the Lake District.
Birthday surprise
A primary school teacher from a Scottish fishing village has landed a £170 Golden Ticket.
Jackie, from Johnshaven near Montrose, discovered the winning coupon when she opened a 12-piece tin of Grasmere Gingerbread on her 60th birthday in September.
“It was such a lovely surprise and I will be spending the money on even more Grasmere Gingerbread®,” she said.
A gift from her husband, the couple have enjoyed the spicy-sweet cross between a biscuit and cake since working at YMCA Lakeside on Windermere.
“It really is the best gingerbread in the world and just so tasty,” she said.
Her entire family are also fans and they regularly take Grasmere Gingerbread® on holiday with them where it has become a firm favourite among friends in Nepal, Australia and the United States.
“I was in the Lake District during March and I am visiting again in November but I regularly buy Grasmere Gingerbread® online,” she said.
Joanne Hunter, co-director of Grasmere Gingerbread®, said she was delighted that Jackie as a loyal and longstanding customer won the second Golden Ticket.
“For so many people Grasmere Gingerbread® becomes integral to their lives and reminds them of special trips to the Lake District,” she said.
Jackie’s ticket is the second Golden ticket out of three to be claimed as part of the ongoing 170th anniversary celebrations of Grasmere Gingerbread®.
In August, accounts assistant Rachel Morgan from Coventry discovered a Golden Ticket inside a 12-piece tin. It was her first-ever purchase of Grasmere Gingerbread®.
A third Golden Ticket has been randomly placed inside a final 12-piece tin of Grasmere Gingerbread® and this will be sold online during October.