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Code Club is a nationwide network of volunteer-led after school coding clubs for children aged 9-11. We’ve been reflecting on what we’ve achieved this year and thought we’d write a little report so you can see how we’ve been getting on. Growth In September 2012 Code Clubs started in 120 schools. By September 2013 we …

On Saturday 30th November, Croydon Tech City held its first Future Tech City event, in a drive to get a Code Club into every primary school in Croydon. There are 95 primary schools in Croydon and Future Tech City are determined to put a Code Club in every single one. With an enthusiastic and dedicated …

December is very nearly upon us, which means it’s about time we re-released Christmas Capers – a special festive-theme Scratch project! Many clubs had great fun with this last year, and some of you have already got in touch requesting it so we thought we’d dig it out of the deep digital vaults here at …

We love Croydon Tech City. They are a growing community of software developers, venture capitalists, technologists, startup founders and creatives who are passionate about the next generation’s skills. They love Code Club as they know how much it will help children in their area learn such skills and kick start a passion for technology to last them …

  This week we packed our bags and headed up to Scotland for the first of a series of workshops in schools that we are doing with our pals at Google. Over the next few months we’ll be travelling all over the UK to different primary schools and showing a group of 9-11 year olds …

We’re super excited to announce that Samsung is going to be supporting Code Club throughout 2014 and hopefully beyond! We’re going to be working together on a series of activities designed to encourage and support more people to start and run Code Clubs in the UK. To celebrate we’ve designed a web app that helps …

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 …