I thought I’d shell out a little and get a BBC Micro:bit from those rather nice people at “Technology Will Save Us!“:
As well as the basic package, they give you a few bits to play around with. However, they don’t give you a prototyping board, which would have been handy, but you can get those from Maplin. It looks pretty and when you plug it in to the battery pack it does a little start up routine that’s pretty awesome for such a small device.