Clare Sutcliffe

Clare Sutcliffe MBE is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder of Code Club. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 2015.

Clare Sutcliffe

MBE
Sutcliffe speaks at the Technology4Good Awards in 2013
Alma materBath Spa University
Known forCode Club
AwardsMBE 2016
Websiteclaresutcliffe.co.uk

Early life and education

Sutcliffe studied graphic design at Bath Spa University.[1][2]

Career

After graduating, Sutcliffe worked in web design. She joined Pixelgroup in 2010, where she started BrainyHacks, a non technical hacking event.[3][4] In 2012 she joined marketing agency Albion and designed the messaging application for Telefónica.[5] She spoke about Hacking the Future at TEDx Brighton.[6][7]

Sutcliffe co-founded Code Club with Linda Sandvik in 2012.[8][9] She served as Chief Executive Officer, responsible for 4,000 after school coding clubs for children aged 9 to 13 years old. Code Club creates educational material for volunteers who teach children for an hour after school.[1] Half of the volunteers are from private sector companies.[10] The children learn how to program, build computer games and make websites.[1] They program in Scratch, then HTML, CSS and Python.[11][12] Sutcliffe got funding from Arm and Google.[13] Code Club went global in 2014.[14] She has provided evidence for the government on the UK's fragmented digital skills training.[15] In 2015 Sutcliffe launched CodeClubPro to better support computer science teachers.[16]

Sutcliffe led Code Club to merge with the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2015 and was appointed executive director of communities and outreach.[17][18][19][20]

In 2016 she was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours.[21] She was named one of Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in IT.[13] She left the Raspberry Pi Foundation in March 2018.[22]

She was appointed the Chair of Trustees at the Beam Foundation in October 2018.[23]

References
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  2. "SPARTAN Summer 2014". Issuu. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  3. "Brainyhacks - Clare Sutcliffe". cargocollective.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  4. "Brainyhacks 2 - full of Spark+Mettle - Pixelgroup Pixelgroup". www.pixelgroup.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  5. NClarkson (11 January 2018). "Empowering people to fulfil their potential at work". Virgin. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  6. TEDx Talks (16 November 2012), Hacking the future | Clare Sutcliffe | TEDxBrighton, retrieved 3 August 2018
  7. "Clare Sutcliffe | TEDxBrighton". TEDxBrighton. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  8. Salter, Jessica (23 November 2013). "Coding for kids: schoolchildren learn computer programming". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  9. "Coding comes to primary schools". BBC News. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  10. "Future Proofing Today's Students Against Tomorrow's Digital Skills Gap". HuffPost UK. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  11. "Code Club - Changing schools by making computing finally fun - The Next Billion". The Next Billion. 5 September 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  12. "An interview with Clare Sutcliffe, Co-founder of Code Club | CAUSE4". www.cause4.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  13. "15. Clare Sutcliffe, co-founder, Code Club; executive director, communities & outreach, Raspberry Pi - The 50 most influential women in UK IT 2016". www.computerweekly.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  14. "Clare Sutcliffe on helping kids learn to code". Creative Bloq. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  15. "Lords Committee asks how to join up 'fragmented' digital skills teaching". UK Parliament. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  16. "Q&A with Clare Sutcliffe, Co-Founder & CEO of Code Club - Viewpoint - careers advice blogViewpoint – careers advice blog". social.hays.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  17. "Raspberry Pi Foundation And U.K.'s Code Club Merge For Global Push To Get Kids Coding". TechCrunch. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  18. "Innovate My School - Clare Sutcliffe". www.innovatemyschool.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  19. "13. Clare Sutcliffe, executive director, communities and outreach, Raspberry Pi Foundation - The 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2017". www.computerweekly.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  20. "Putting a Code Club in every community - Raspberry Pi". Raspberry Pi. 3 November 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  21. "Clare Sutcliffe named in New Year's Honours List". The Code Club Blog. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  22. "Code Club co-founder announces departure from Raspberry Pi". PC Retail. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  23. "The Beam Foundation". The Charity Commission.
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