The website has served the North Devon Mini Register well, providing an online home for the nutcases that are spread all over the country. Those nutcases rose to the last challenge, and there is now a Messy Play Area at Charlton Farm. We are now moving on to new challenges, the most immediate being our World Record Attempt.

So after a couple of years of sterling work, it is time for a website revamp! There are some new bits, there are some bits that may still need tweaking. Feel free to let me know your thoughts or if there is anything you would like to see added. There is a game arcade now, so let me know what sort of games you like... because I have many more games to add! You can register on the site to create a profile to save your scores. This is not linked to your forum account, so I'm afraid you will need to register a new account. Web Whatever

25.07.07 - The itinerary for this years Grand Tour is now online - view it on the Legendary Grand Tour page

24.07.07 - There are still a few places left for our Legendary Grand Tour and our Guinness World Record attempt but they are going very fast. The record attempt is only a small part of our normal run. We always take out about 300 minis and we will be using our normal route. However, unlike any other attempt, we will not stop after 2 miles and send you home, we continue our tour across North Devon with all 300 minis.

THIS IS A TICKET ONLY EVENT. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A TICKET THEN PLEASE DO NOT TURN UP. THERE WILL NOT BE ROOM FOR YOU ANYWHERE AND YOU WILL NOT BE WELCOME.

The grill plaque is now on the door of the Messy Play Area. Our “Mini Wing Appeal” raised over £130,000 for the CHSW. Over the years we have given the CHSW over £150,000.

SO WHAT DO WE DO NOW?

Well the money that we raise will still go straight to the CHSW, but we will still have a very big say on what it is used for.

WE ARE ON A MISSION AND OUR FIRST ONE IS...

There is a young girl who uses the Hospice who does not need a wheelchair, but whereever she goes drags behind her a ball & chain. To you and me it is a small oxygen cylinder on a wheeled trolley, but it depresses her so much. Well we are going to take that burden away from her and we are going to give her back a little bit of freedom. Together we are going to buy her a portable oxygen generator that looks like a shoulder bag. It is so light she will be able to carry it around herself. So she might be able to walk on the grass or on the beach like any other child and leave the ball & chain at home. The sad thing is that at some stage it will be returned to the hospice.

A lot of the children who stay at the hospice use wheelchairs, so if any of them want to go out to the shops they have to use the sunshine coach and that can take ages to get sorted. So, with your help, we are going to try and raise enough money to buy a car that has been converted to take a wheelchair.

It won’t have any stickers on it, except maybe a small cars, big hearts logo, but it won't shout out, "look at me!". It will always be ready for them if they “just” want to pop down to the shops and pick that special birthday card for a friend, or go to blockbusters to pick the latest video, or maybe they might need to just get away from everything and go for a drive; all simple things that we take for granted. It will give them a little more independence and let them make a few more of their own simple choices.