The Club was originally started in 1986 by a young lady, Sarah Coastings  whose father is a brakes spares specialist in the Langley area of Birmingham. She put an advert in the local newspaper for similar minded Mini owners to join together to form a club, and that they would meet at the National Mini Owners meeting at Stanford Hall. Nineteen people turned up and the club was born, they decided to meet at the Hen and Chickens pub on the Birmingham New  Road A4123 every Tuesday night, this was the meeting point for all meetings and starting point for events until 2000 when the pub was closed down and  turned  into a Chinese  restaurant. The club then moved to its present venue The Wernley Inn, still on the Birmingham New Road  (A4123 ).

The Club meets every Tuesday for an informal drink and general chat,  usually Minis, every second Tuesday in the month we hold a formal meeting where club business issues are discussed and ideas are implemented. 

The Club is run by a committee elected at the AGM in October each year where all positions are put up for re-election by the members.  The Club has only had four chairmen, the first  being Sarah Coastings, later followed by Stuart Alcorn, who has since drifted out of the Mini scene, then on to Dave Hollis who went on to form the British Mini Owners Club, then to the present chairman Mick Price. 

The Club have a couple of  honorary members, the first being John Rhodes (Smoking Rhodes) who is regarded as the greatest Mini  driver. Winning the Europeon championship in a Mini and also driving a Cooper Car Company car in a British Grand Prix. The other honorary member is Spencer Davis, for the younger generation he is a sixties pop star of the Spencer Davis Group who recorded “Keep on Running “ which went to Number One knocking the Beatles off the top, he now lives in the US and drives a Mk2 Cooper  S type which was damaged a few years ago in an earthquake. 

Members come from mainly the Birmingham area, but we do have members in France, Germany, USA and Australia. 

The Club has always supported other clubs by attending as many Mini shows as possible during the year with themed club stands and entering concours with considerable success.  When not at shows  we organise our own weekends and social events,  Breen Sands, Bala Lakes, Journee  Mini  in France, Scottish weekend in Perth, Scotland. We have always attended as many IMM meetings as possible, I think the first one the club attended was in Rodenkirken,  Germany, and the last one, was at Podlesice in Poland. Succesfully  bidding to hold the IMM 2009 in Birmingham, “ what an  honour.”