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Twelve children at Amherst Primary School in Guernsey are taking part in a Code Club run by local digital agency Indulge Media. The development team at Indulge take it in turns to teach weekly coding classes which began in September at the start of the school year. Director Russell Isabelle said: “We decided to get involved …

Code Club have over 1300 clubs in the UK now. That’s 1300 people kindly giving up their time to teach kids to code. This is a pretty incredible thing for them to do and it warms our hearts just thinking about how awesome they all are. We travelled up and down the country filming some …

Lots of schools and other venues want to have a Code Club but can’t find a volunteer. Behind the scenes Team Code Club are working very hard to recruit new volunteers and one of the ways we’re going about this is by speaking to businesses and getting them to give their employees time out of …

Last weekend Linda and tef went to Bletchley Park, along with 600 designers, developers, and hackers for two days of talks, workshops and coding. Friday included Linda’s talk about Code Club, and a tour of the Computer History Museum, before everyone went off to build amazing things. Saturday included tef’s talk about social issues in programming, …

Here at Code Club we appreciate the effort and enthusiasm of our many fantastic volunteers and so every month we are going to ask one of them to blog about their experiences. Second up is the awesome Linda Broughton from Leeds. I’m a software engineer with a career that spans roles in software development, consulting, …

Earlier this month, Sam and I spent four days enthusing about Code Club at Campus Party London. Campus Party is a week long, 24 hour technology festival, with talks, workshops, and gaming. Along side Mozilla, Popup Talent and others, we had a stall in the Think Big/Make the web venue, where we taught people a …

We’re really excited to tell you that we’re teaming up with Postcode Anywhere to hold a bunch of meet-ups around the UK to say thank you to our current volunteers and meet new ones. One of the trickiest things about running Code Club at the moment is that so many schools and other venues want to have …

Here at Code Club we appreciate the effort and enthusiasm of our many fantastic volunteers and so every month we are going to ask one of them to blog about their experiences. First up is the awesome Alastair Lockie from Brighton: I’m lucky enough to be a JavaScript developer working at Brandwatch in Brighton. Being a programmer for a …

For our fourth term of projects we’re teaching children Python, so over the last few weeks we’ve held some very exciting Python testing events with an expert group of kids from all over the South East. The kids amazed us with their interest and ability to highlight what did and didn’t work. Most of all …

In early August, Code Club ran a week of coding and hacking with the wonderful guys at Exploring Senses. 20 lucky children from Brighton took part in a week of learning to code using Scratch, Makey Makey boards and Raspberry Pis. Then they ran around dressed as robots and hacking toys together in the afternoon! It …