Clare Sutcliffe

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is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder of

Code Club Code Club is a voluntary initiative, founded in 2012. The initiative aims to provide opportunities for children aged 9 to 13 to develop coding skills through free after-school clubs. As of November 2015, over 3,800 schools and other public venu ...

. She was awarded an

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in 2015.

Early life and education

Sutcliffe studied

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Bath Spa University Bath Spa University is a public university in Bath, England, with its main campus at Newton Park, about west of the centre of the city. The university has other campuses in the city of Bath, and one at Corsham Court in Wiltshire. The instit ...

Career

After graduating, Sutcliffe worked in web design. She joined Pixelgroup in 2010, where she started BrainyHacks, a non technical hacking event. In 2012 she joined marketing agency Albion and designed the messaging application for

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. She spoke about ''Hacking the Future'' at

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x Brighton. Sutcliffe co-founded

with Linda Sandvik in 2012. She served as

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, 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. Half of the volunteers are from private sector companies. The children learn how to program, build computer games and make websites. They program in Scratch, then

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and

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. Sutcliffe got funding from

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and

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. Code Club went global in 2014. She has provided evidence for the government on the UK's fragmented digital skills training. In 2015 Sutcliffe launched CodeClubPro to better support computer science teachers. Sutcliffe led Code Club to merge with the

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in 2015 and was appointed executive director of communities and outreach. In 2016 she was awarded an

in the

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. She was named one of

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's Most Influential Women in IT. She left the

in March 2018. She was appointed the Chair of Trustees at the Beam Foundation in October 2018.

References

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