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Code Club want to say a big thank you to the fine folks at Bytemark, a York-based hosting company who are generously providing a large portion of our server space requirements for free. Code Club UK has, for some time, been hosting our websites with Bytemark. This is a service that they give us free …

Coming up at the end of July is a fantastic opportunity for enthusiastic young digital makers and tech fans to get stuck in with some summer holiday coding fun – the Young Rewired State Festival of Code! Open to children aged 18 and younger, we think the Festival of Code is an awesome event for …

On Tuesday we attended the launch of the BBC’s exciting new micro:bit project in London. As a partner organisation of the BBC’s flagship Make It Digital initiative, which aims to get more young people across the UK involved in digital making and computer science, Code Club couldn’t be more excited to see the new micro:bit …

Last month Code Club attended the glitzy Digital Leaders 100 awards in London to celebrate the work of digital pioneers across the UK from the public, private and non-profit sectors. We’re really thrilled that Code Club picked up the award for ‘Best Digital Skills Product or Service’ for the second year in a row! We …

We have a very special guest blog post this week from Harry James. He is 15 years old and attends school at Whitley Bay High School. A keen coder, last week Harry completed his work experience with Ignite at Campus North. Read what Harry has to say about the importance of having Code Clubs in schools and how programming can …

We’re excited to welcome four new coordinators to our team who will be working to support our clubs and grow our community in the UK. Dan Powell will be stationed in the South East, Dan Elwick in London, Tim Wilson in the West Midlands and Phil Sharratt will be joining the South West. I’m Dan, …

“Hey Code Club”, we hear you say, “I need some advice. I really want to volunteer, there’s a great school close by, I just need to convince my boss.” Don’t worry, Future Volunteer — pull up a chair! We know it can be tricky working out the best way to find the flexibility to volunteer …

We’re really sad to be waving goodbye to the Head of Code Club UK, Laura Kirsop, as she moves on to pastures new. Laura has been with Code Club pretty much since the beginning, in one form or another. At first she was the teacher working with a volunteer at one of our first ever pilot …

Here at Code Club we think our volunteers are the coolest people on the planet, and we want to do everything we can to support them and encourage new people to join the gang. Over the past few months we’ve been developing some shiny online training to give our volunteers all the information and inspiration …

All Code Clubs must be fully registered with us. If a club appears on our homepage map then it’s registered – YAY! If it’s not on our map then you have a tiny bit of work to do – please either register today or log in to your account and complete our registration checklist. If you get stuck then just …