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by Dan Powell, Code Club’s Regional Coordinator for the South East About 18 months ago, Code Club started a project with Hampshire Library Service to start five Code Clubs in key libraries across the county. This was around the time the Society of Chief Librarians announced its Code Green initiative, which foregrounded digital engagement in libraries, …

This #VolunteersWeek, we celebrate by sharing the experiences of the amazing people who help to inspire children across the UK to get excited about coding and digital making. Amanda Coffey is a parent and she runs a Code Club at Firfield Primary School. We spoke to her about how she got involved with Code Club, …

Have you heard of the new Raspberry Pi Pioneers programme, which challenges children and young people aged 11 to 16 to get together and use technology to make awesome things? Code Club Regional Coordinator and volunteer Lorna Gibson took part in the last challenge, acting as mentor for her Code Club’s Pioneers project. She told …

This week is Volunteers’ Week, a celebration of the amazing work that people across the UK are doing, sharing their time and enthusiasm to help a range of projects and organisations – including Code Club! This year we wanted to highlight the real difference Code Club hosts and leaders make in the lives of the …

Issue 2 of Hello World, the computing and digital making magazine for educators is published today! This issue celebrates ten years of MIT’s pioneering block-based programming language, Scratch. Scratch is an amazing, accessible programming language that has helped millions of people learn more about computing programming. It’s also by far the most popular coding language …

Over the past few weeks we’ve been working on the Code Club site to make some updates, and we wanted to share these with you here! Working guided by feedback from our community, we’ve turned our attention to the Club Hub to enhance our resources and make it simpler for you to manage your clubs …

For the past five years, Code Club has been working to inspire children in the UK to get excited about coding and digital making. We’ve seen our community grow rapidly in that time – there are now an amazing 5,750 Code Clubs engaging over 85,000 young people in the UK each week! We couldn’t have …

At the end of last year, Curved House Kids and author Lucy Hawking launched the second Principia Space Diary programme, a primary science scheme first created in 2015-16 as one of the UK Space Agency-funded education outreach projects supporting Tim Peake’s Principia Space Mission. To celebrate the launch of the Space Diary, we created some …

Code Club’s amazing team of Regional Coordinators help us to grow and to support our community across the UK. They attend events, and meet and speak with volunteers, hosts, educators, and partners on a local level. We’re really pleased to welcome two new members to the team: Adam Williams, our new coordinator for Wales, who …

At the end of last year we sent out a survey to Code Club hosts to ask them about their experiences running Code Club at their venues. We had some great feedback, and now that we’ve crunched the numbers, we wanted to share our findings! Firstly, our thanks to more than 300 Code Club hosts …