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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, …

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 …

Keen to help Code Club provide free opportunities for children in the UK and around the world to develop their coding and digital skills? In November last year we joined forces with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which means there are now new ways to fundraise and support our work. You can fundraise or make donations …

Last week we were invited along to HP’s offices in central London to meet the Code Club from Wapping High, who were showcasing the coding projects they have been creating over the course of this school term. Back in January the students were set the challenge of creating a program in Scratch, HTML & CSS, …

We were very sad to hear about the passing of Wendy Lynch last week. Wendy was an amazing lady who was a huge supporter of Code Club, running the very first Code Club in Soho Parish alongside Simon Wharton and Laura Kirsop. She was very patient  with children and journalists alike as they came to …

It’s been some time since since we first announced our partnership with the BBC micro:bit. We’re now really pleased to share with you the launch of six projects we’ve created for this device, as children in schools all over the country receive them from today (22nd March). All our micro:bit projects are available to view …

We are looking for a dedicated and energetic Regional Coordinator to join the Code Club team.

11th-20th March is British Science Week, celebrating science, technology, engineering and maths in the UK. At Code Club, we’re marking the occasion by taking part in several awesome science and computing events around the country. This weekend, we kicked things off with a couple of great events in Leeds and Manchester: Leeds Raspberry Jam Our interim …

We’re always interested in trying new things, here at Code Club and this week our ever inquisitive Participation Manager Sarah has been learning about Sonic Pi. In this blog, she fills us on on the details of what she found out: They say you learn something new everyday, and what I learned today was so …

We’re delighted to be part of this year’s Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair, the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for young people in the UK. Held at the NEC, Birmingham 16-19 March 2016, The Big Bang Fair is an award-winning combination of exciting theatre shows, interactive workshops and …