The ever-popular Gingerbread Family Trail returns to Southport town centre this Christmas.

Visitors can explore the town centre, searching in the windows of businesses for the colourful characters.

The Trail makes for a great day out in the town centre and there are great prizes to be won too!

Using Trail map to navigate, discover the characters one by one and make a note of each of their names.  Once all ten are discovered, maps can be posted to Santa’s Letterbox in Marble Place, or handed in at The Atkinson Library.

One lucky will winner, drawn at random, will receive a Nintendo Switch with games from GAME Southport.

This year, the names of the Gingerbread Family are being chosen by the pupils of Marshside Primary School.

There’s also more fun to be had at two Selfie Zones, where you can pose for pictures with Gingerbread props.  Silcock’s Pier Family Restaurant will be home to the Gingerbread Sleigh, and the Gingerbread Throne can be found Over The Moon Kids Boutique & Shoe Studio.

The Selfie Zones also offer trail-goers a second chance to win, and those who enter pictures at www.southportbid.com/gingerbread-trail could be in with the chance  of winning the bonus prize of £100 voucher for The Entertainer Southport.

Digital maps can be downloaded here.  Printed maps can be picked up from The Atkinson, ASDA, Morrisons, Sainsburys, as well as all participating venues from November 23.

The Gingerbread Trail runs from Saturday 23 November until Sunday 5 January (2025).