What do we do?
We bring our gentle and friendly miniature donkeys to your community group, voluntary organisation, dementia group or special needs group.
We are based in South Norfolk and operate across Norfolk and Suffolk. Basically, we visit anywhere where a mood boosting donkey visit would help people with their wellbeing.
If you want our donkeys to come to a Wedding, Private Party, Event or even a Funeral we can do that too.
Why do we do it?
Having worked with family carers professionally and having been a family carer for two parents with dementia, the group’s founder knows firsthand how stress can be relieved by spending time with these beautiful animals.
Sarah lost her mum to dementia in April 2017 and took the decision to set up a social enterprise to bring the benefits of interacting with mini donkeys to as wide an audience as possible.
How do you book a visit?
If you would like to find out more about how our visits work or would like to book a visit, you can e-mail us, give us a call or download a booking form.
Our visits do book up quite quickly and if you have a specific date in mind (wedding, summer fete, special birthday) call us to reserve your date. Bookings are confirmed on receipt of a completed booking form.
Mini Donks on Facebook
Good Morning Minidonkers! Today we have a virtual visit, with Pixie, to everyone at NorseCare. We have visited so many amazing Norsecare settings and we will be virtually visiting some of them individually in the coming weeks. But today is for everyone who works for Norsecare and for everyone who lives at a Norsecare home or sheltered housing scheme. We have so many happy memories of our visits. Our volunteers will always request to be allocated to visits where we have had such a warm welcome. So here is our Pixie, named after my mum, in full smooching, cuddling mode for you all. Keep on doing the brilliant job you are doing.
#minidonkmagic #TNLCommunityFund #wellbeing #norsecare
Lovely to see Pixie in full cuddle mode... what a sweetheart. x
NorseCare - please share to as many of your settings as you can. Thank you. Xxx
What a lovely video. #MinidonkMagic
Such a gorgeous girl, give her a cuddle from me xx
Suzanne Miao 🙂
missing my pixie cuddles 🥺
Thank you Claire from everyone at Oakes Court Downham Market. Love the mini donks.🤗
Good morning everyone!!! This post is for you all, today’s profile is on Alfie, hope you enjoy learning about his foibles 😄
Lol, angry donkey! Lovely to hear more about Alfie. Steph, did you get him before Rubik? Do you think that’s why he’s the boss? Special boys, hugs and kisses, miss you!
Brilliant video Steph- lovely to hear so much about the boy! Xxxx
Lovely video Steph... he's such a super boy - I love his cheeky nature. x
my favourite naughty donk
No video today. Just a message to all the people we have visited and all the people we are due to visit. We have not forgotten you. We will be in touch with you as soon as we can. And a reminder that it is the little things that will keep us going through all this. Little things like this thank you card that we received in the post yesterday. This card reduced me to tears yesterday. The kindness and thoughtfulness to send this at a time when I’m sure there are much more pressing things to do. So this if for Steph and her team and St Mary’s House in Norwich - 🙏
Steph Collingbourne thank you my lovely- got this beautiful card from Toni at St Mary’s, another fantastic job Team Steph! Xxxx
Wonderful xx
Hope you are all keeping safe 💕
Happy Saturday Minidonkers! We have a very special virtual visit going out all the way to the USA! Hello Morgan and Libby. We hope you have happy memories of visiting us at Christmas with our super-volunteers Linda and David. Today we are introducing our beautiful Saffy to you all. Xxxx
Linda White and David White xxxxxx
They look they all want a brush lol
We could all do with a mini dinky cuddle right now xx
They are all adorable cheers you up just looking at them bless you all xxx 💕💕
We would love a cuddle at the moment.cheers.me up seeing them every day
Hello out there!!! This mornings virtual visit is for The Art Box in Chediston. We visited back last March, where they all helped with our National Lottery campaign. Danni also painted us a beautiful portrait of a donkey. We really hope to get out and see you again sometime this year, until then, here’s a big hello from us!
Ahh beautiful Steph! Love the sound of those little knashers noshing!xxxxx
A great idea. And Helen and Steve, who run The Art Box, live across the road from us.
A lovely pick me up... thanks Steph. x
Good morning gorgeous boys! Enjoy the grass and sun. Thank you Step and Pip!
Good Morning Minidonkers! This post is going out today to all of our amazing volunteers. You all do such brilliant things to make Minidonks what it is. At the moment we are all dispersed, keeping safe however we need to. The MD, Gordon, Nino, Busso and the donks are missing you all. The boys are being looked after and loved by Steph and Pip, the girls are here at Minidonk HQ, enjoying their first turn out of the year.
At the moment it is even more important to keep the girls healthy and happy. This time of year brings the spring grass, which can be rich, and after a few months of hay and straw, we have to limit the amount of grazing to avoid risk of colic or laminitis. So you can imagine the complaints from the girls who don’t understand why they can’t be out on the paddock all day. Take care, love you all, miss you all..... yee haaaa,
#minidonks #wellbeing #tnlcommunityfund #tescobagsofhelp #animaltherapy
A minidonk zoomie is always a pleasure to see ❤️
Yeah haaaaaaaaaaa zooooooooooooooom!💞
Lovely to see the girls out enjoying the sunshine😊
Gorgeous, perhaps for those of us who don’t know the donkeys personally could you do a daily profile for each one ie age, their favourite things to to etc 🤔
So cute x
Good morning Alayna Orzansoy! We would all like to wish you a very Happy 15th Birthday 🍰 🎁 🎂. We decided to spare you our singing, but we did make a “cake” for you. I’m afraid the donkeys ate it all- they said it was very 👍. So we hope you enjoy this little virtual visit to Minidonk HQ, and that you have the best possible day. When this is all over you have a special invitation to come and meet the donkeys at any of our public visits. You will get a vip introduction to the donkeys and get to groom them, cuddle them and take plenty of selfies. Happy Birthday!
Oh my goodness thank you so so much! Aleyna is still asleep but this is going to absolutely make her day. All our love to you all ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes a Very Happy Birthday Aleyna hope you have a great day love 💘
Such a wonderful celebration for Aleyna 🥰
Good morning everyone! Looks like it’s going to be another bright ☀️ day! Today’s virtual visit is for TADDS, we were meant to be visiting on Friday, so this is a big hello to all their volunteers and members. The boys and Minidonk team love visiting TADDS, as everyone is so welcoming, pleased to see us and we even get a cheeky 🍦. We really hope to see everyone at TADDS later in the year, until then, this is for you ❤️
Joanne M-Dixon
Loving the virtual visit ❤️
That's lovely,thank you and stay safe X ❤️❤️
Thank you Steph and team!!! With love to you from TADDS!!! Xxx
Beautiful 💖💖
Stay safe out there you do amazing work xxx
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