Design Club

The club started on 9 February and runs for 6 weeks over Zoom. I’m going to try to keep a diary. [FINAL UPDATE: 23 March]

Matt and Bailey from Elsewhen ran a Design Club project at School 21, delivered remotely via Google Meet.

Notes from our recent virtual Meetup and developments in our thinking on how we might deliver Design Club remotely.

We’re thrilled to announce we’ve been selected as a “Spark” grantee by this new fund. We’ll be experimenting with video content and more!

Design Club mentor Bianca Hollis reflects on her key takeaways from running a series of Design Club workshops over Zoom

Running a club remotely (via video) is different from face to face for many reasons. Here the key things you need to consider

Take children through a design project in a few short video workshops. Bianca Hollis shares her tips on running a successful session on…

The first of three posts where our fab mentor Bianca Hollis shares practical tips to run Design Club activities remotely

Preparing for a reboot in January 2021

We hosted our first virtual Meetup on 9 April. Thanks to all mentors who joined. We discussed creative ideas, support and safeguarding.

Organisations are having to re-orientate in order to reach the people who matter to them. Design Club is no different.

Help children design and prototype an app using pen and paper. This simple project works through the basics of design thinking.

I want to help young people engage with design thinking and discover more creative career paths, and promote tech for girls.

Notes from a mini retro and planning meeting at RSA House on Tuesday. Thanks Mina Bach, Daniel Gost and Don Gazara :)

Using paper prototypes and laser-cut phone models to create a fun, collaborative and immersive learning experience.

Thanks IBM for hosting our October Meetup. Our recent Meetups have focused on after school clubs. But we’ve had other success stories too.

We made a newspaper. It’s a review of our first year and a bit since setting up as a Community Interest Company in April 2018.

Design lead at Synechron London. James loves training the design thinkers, app designers and creative forces of tomorrow.

We’re giving special credit to the mentors who’ve been quietly helping to build the Design Club community

UX design consultant Jess wanted to give something back and be more involved at her sons’ primary school.

UX designer Mina wishes she’d had Design Club when she was at school. She now runs a Saturday club at the Science Museum.

We celebrated our first birthday as a CIC on 20 April. Here’s a look back on what we’ve achieved and lessons learned in our first year.

Head of engagement at Design Club. Jemima likes to see children use design thinking to solve problems. And have fun while they do it.

What we learned and why we think other small charities and social enterprises should apply to TFN