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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 …

With funding from a corporate sponsor, we are looking to offer free training on the computing curriculum for 200 teachers in the Newcastle area over the next few months, and we need your help. The computing curriculum came into effect in England in September 2014, and teachers are now expected to teach computer science to …

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 …

Join us on Wednesday 13th April from 8-9pm for the another Code Club Twitter Chat! This month we’re changing things up a bit and the #CCUKchat will be focussed on answering any questions you may have about Code Club. Got a question about our curriculum? A technical query about how to activate your club? A …

Over the past year, we’ve had more and more Code Clubs starting in libraries around the country. Ipswich County Library is host to one of those new Code Clubs, and they filled us in on they’re progress so far: My name is Charmain Osborne and I’m the Assistant Library Manager at Ipswich County Library. As part …

If you’re a parent looking to contribute to your child’s school community, how about starting a Code Club? Whether you’re a coding expert or an absolute beginner, we’re looking for enthusiastic parent volunteers who can start an after-school coding club in their child’s school. Interested to find out more? We spoke to Elbrie de Kock, the …

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 …