2024

• June: in the process of dissolving the company.
• Website and resources will stay as is for the foreseeable future.

2023

• Updated the Design Club website: now contains a curated directory of design tools for young people, as per strategy shift mentioned below.

2022

• Slow start to the year after a pre-Christmas rise in Covid cases.
• With heavy (but hopeful) hearts, we made the decision to shift focus.
• Our new strategy is to create a curated directory of design tools for kids - products, projects and programmes that get kids doing design and design thinking.

2021

• We're rebooting!
• Looking for Reboot Supporters to fund 2021/2022 activity.
• We've learned a lot from our first remote after school Design Club.
• And partnered with Multiverse and Future to reach new audiences, online and IRL.

2020

• We started the year with new after school clubs in Coventry, Haslemere and Woking, and exciting plans for weekend clubs‍
• Then Covid happened, so we had to hit pause.
• We experimented with online delivery and invited parents to run design projects at home.
• Bright spots: Elsewhen ran a remote club and we got a bit of funding from Grant for the Web (which enabled us to think about how to reboot Design Club.

2019

• We supported mentors to run 15 after school clubs, including the first Design Clubs outside London, in Blackpool and Dundee. You can Meet the mentors on our blog.

• Our weekend squad ran pop-up clubs at Science Museum, Kingston University and MozFest.
• Reached 500 children and had more than 800 people register an interest in mentoring.
• Started hosting peer-led Meetups and recognised our Super Mentors.
• Won funding from The Funding Network. And Growth Supporters helped us grow.

2018

• We set up as a Community Interest Company in April. We're limited by guarantee, meaning all profits go back into growing Design Club. Founding supporters came on board.
• Reached more than 500 children through a mix of after school and weekend clubs.
• Ran our first mentor Meetups and got accepted as one of Makerversity's Makers with a Mission.
• Partnered with BMJ, WIRED and Token Dad to try new formats.

2017

• We piloted our first after school Design Club.

• Reached over 150 children through a network of 50 volunteers.

• Partnered with Marvel and Moo to develop the learning experience. Partnered with CoderDojo and iOi to deliver weekend Design Clubs.

• Partnered with British Council to deliver Design Thinking mentor training.