11th June 2016
Volunteers’ Week stories: Viv Richards
Viv Richards is one of our volunteers who plays an active role in the tech community where he lives in Wales. He shared his experiences of running a Code Club, and the benefits it brings him, his family and local community.
10th June 2016
Volunteer’s Week stories: RBS Gogarburn Code Club
Gary Clark and Ian Rodwell are two volunteers from the Royal Bank of Scotland who have been running a Code Club in the RBS Gogarburn offices near Edinburgh for the past three months. We spoke to them about their experiences volunteering to help local children learn about coding & digital making. They were inspired to …
9th June 2016
Volunteer’s Week stories: Robert Bilsland
Robert Bilsland has been volunteering with Code Club since the very start, and his enthusiasm and passion never fails to amaze us. He told us a bit more about his volunteering experience… For me being a Code Club volunteer is such a rewarding opportunity. Each week being able to share my enthusiasm for computers and …
8th June 2016
Volunteers’ Week 2016: Fitting volunteering into your work schedule
It can be a challenge to fit volunteering in when working full time. However, we know that many volunteers who run Code Clubs – either on their own or as part of a group – not only feel able to balance it with their work but also see benefits from it too. We spoke to …
6th June 2016
Deep Mind inspires new generation of Code Clubs with AlphaGo donation
In March this year AlphaGo (an Artificial Intelligence computer designed by Google DeepMind) started a 5 match test against one of the world’s best Go players, Lee Se Dal, to win a prize of $1million. Go is a very complex game to play – there are more possible position combinations than there are atoms in …
1st June 2016
Volunteers’ Week 2016
Today is the start of Volunteers’ Week, a time to celebrate the amazing achievements and contributions of volunteers across the UK who are working to help their local communities. So of course we also want to take this opportunity to celebrate the work of Code Club’s volunteers – the teachers, students, parents, librarians, community workers, …
20th May 2016
Code Club Champions
We think all our Code Club volunteers are amazing for giving their time to help children learn to code. We noticed that some volunteers in our community have been doing lots of things to support us, in addition to volunteering at a club. For example, they had been spreading the word about Code Club at …
12th May 2016
New members of the Regional Team!
Code Club’s amazing Regional Coordinators are our eyes and ears on the ground across the country, attending events and supporting our volunteers and partners on a local level. We’re really pleased to welcome three new members to the team – Victoria who will be covering the North East, Yorkshire and Humber; Mark who will be …
18th April 2016
Code Club is Four!
Happy birthday to us, Happy birthday to us, Happy birthday dear Code Club! It’s Code Club’s fourth birthday – hooray! We’re very excited to have reached the big four and we are so grateful to all the fabulous people who have helped us get there, but most of all our amazing volunteers. Code Club’s CEO, …
15th April 2016
Your Feedback Matters
In January we sent out a survey to all Code Club volunteers past and present, and we were really grateful that 688 of you took the time to fill it in. Thanks! The purpose of the survey was to find out how we could improve and make our valued volunteers as happy as they could …
