WIMBORNE MINSTER PANCAKE RACE TO RUN AGAIN
                                       TUESDAY 21st FEBRUARY 2012 

The Pancake Race around the Minster is all set to run again this year. It will be the fifteenth time since the race was revived in 1998 after an absence of some 16 years.

The race takes place on Shrove Tuesday, 21st February, the time 11.00am and the venue is outside the main entrance to the Minster. The first heat will be run whilst the Pancake Bell is tolled. All competitors should report to the North Porch by 10.30am to enrol, complete with frying pan and ready cooked pancake.

So have we some challengers (over 18) to win The Old Bakehouse Café Perpetual Challenge Cup and become the Minster Pancake Champion 2012? The winner will also receive a Trophy from the Stour and Avon Magazine.

The former owners of the Old Bakehouse Café (Leigh Road) Martyn and Kathy Curtler are once again very kindly donating a prize of £25 to the winning school/playgroup in a relay race.

In addition Mr Ken Holloway will again present a prize of £25 to the first junior (under18) to cross the winning line in the final of the individual junior’s race.

If there are entries, as there have been for the last few years, there will also be a Wheelchair Race and the Wimborne Pet Centre will donate a bag of wild bird food to the winner.

All competitors have to do, is run round the Minster, starting at the North Porch tossing their pancakes at the four corners of the church. Anyone can enter their respective categories--male or female, young or old, individuals, schools, groups, organisations, a team - all are welcome.

Entry forms available in the Minster or Church House (Parish Office), or from;

  		            Anthony Oliver, MBE (01202) 888703 
                                                    
                                                       or

Just turn up on the day and have some fun! - BOOK IN FOR REGISTRATION BY 10.30 am.

Reporters and photographers welcome.

Further details, if required, from
Anthony Oliver, MBE 
Race Co-ordinator 
(01202)888703