Partnerships
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Partners and supporters
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1,075,640 young people reached
We reach young people through workshops, hackathons, festivals, enrichment events and camps. These activities take place in schools, community and youth groups. We develop engaging, active and contextual learning resources and experiences to help young people see themselves as future discerning and ethical digital users, developers and leaders.
23,643 teachers and community leaders trained
Our work with teachers, community and youth leaders. Through our professional development, training, mentoring and coaching, we equip these leaders with the confidence to deliver digital programmes including AI, cyber, data science and coding with the young people they support.
59 countries supported
Our reach spans 59 countries and counting, working in partnership with local organisations to deliver culturally relevant, high-impact education. Whether in classrooms, youth centres or community hubs, our global network ensures that opportunities for learning and innovation are accessible to young people everywhere.
1642 communities reached
We’ve worked hand in hand with local communities to make digital learning meaningful, accessible, and relevant. By embedding our programmes in schools, libraries, youth clubs and community spaces, we’ve helped foster local ownership and lasting impact; reducing digital poverty and supporting digital inclusion.
Why partner with us?
Join us in equipping children with the essential digital skills they need to thrive in a technology-driven future
Corporate Social Responsibility | CSR
Strengthen your CSR profile by providing your workforce with high-impact, skills-based volunteering opportunities.
Environmental Social and Governance Goals | ESG
Eleveate your ESG reporting by providing verifiable, auditable metrics and stregnthen your environmental strategy through our Coding for Climate Action and EcoCode programmes.
Sponsorship and Brand Awareness
Raise your profile and demonstrate your commitment to digital inclusion and the digital futures of young people.
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Support our flagship initiative that teaches children how to use AI, data science, coding and engineering to solve environmental challenges. Help us scale this initiative to new regions.
🌧️ Support the EcoCode programme
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Sponsor an award category and help us spotlight future digital leaders and celebrate the digital achievements, leadership and teamwork of young people.
🏆 Sponsor the CODE Awards
Our network is UK-wide, we can support your social value initiatives through our ambassadors and volunteers.
❤️ Support for your social value projects
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Help your staff in any department to spark change, including helping us tell our story, support our workshops and camps or behind-the-scenes operations and strategy.
🤝 Pro-bono support
Elevate a school's tech provision and enable us to provide long-term hareware support, teacher training, and enrichment opportunities.
💻 Donate technology for partner schools
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Help young people to achieve without barriers. By supporting our catalyst programme you can help students without access to subject specialists, have access to world class computer science education.
🧠 Support the Catalyst programme
Inspiring future digital leaders
Our work is guided by young people we once taught who are now applying digital skills in their careers. Former students including Grace, Kiara and Manisha – current employees at IBM and Lloyds - lead Digit<all>'s steering group today, helping us understand the skills employers need and how we can inspire more young people, particularly girls, to see technology as part of their future.
Where am I now?
Reflections on how early exposure to digital skills shaped your career:
Advice for young people considering careers in technology:
🖥️ Software Developer at IBM
Where am I now?
I'm now working as a software developer for IBM
Reflections on how early exposure to digital skills shaped your career:
Advice for young people considering careers in technology
Partnership case studies
Just some of the examples of how we are working with organisations to reduce digital poverty, increase digital inclusion and develop the digital leaders of tomorrow:
Amazon Future Engineer
We enable Amazon to reach young people to develop the future skills of tomorrow's engineers through co-created curriculum resources such as Coding for Climate Action and provide teacher training. The developed resources share Amazon's sustainability work, available careers and their prioritised future skills and careers pathways.
As part of this partnership, we develop resources, create and dellivery training content and delivery workshops covering topics including data centres and AI. We use our vast connection with schools and teachers to provide high reach and impact.
UKRI
We collaborate with UKRI to help share inspiring research, career pathways and insights from young scientists with our network of community and youth groups and schools. This partnership has produced the popular EcoCode programme, which highlights recent sustainability research across departments including space, lasers and particle accelerators.
In this partnership, we develop exciting, engaging and active learning resources where young people can engage in STEM through physical computing with the micro:bit. We also provide training for community and educational leaders to build their confidence alongside the delivery of workshops, festivals and summer camps which are supported by UKRI ambassadors.
CIVICA
We work with Civica to provide their employees with impactful volunteering opportunities at every level. These opportunities span across the whole organisation where support is provided to the charity at a strategic and operational level.
In this partnership we have been able to provide volunteering activities for staff to support hackathons with young people, develop our strategic direction and provide opportunities for women at Civica to share their technical roles such as cyber security with students. This partnership has also enabled the charity to recycle IT equipment such as laptops to help schools setup girls' esports clubs.
8x8
Our partnership with 8x8 has enabled the organisation to increase its capacity to deliver social value projects in specific areas of high deprivation. We have helped the organisation to connect with underserved and underrepresented communities with engaging workshops where young people develop their engineering and computer science skills to build functional sustainability-focused prototypes.
Cisco Foundation
In our partnership with Cisco, we are providing professional development for non-specialist and early-career computer science teachers with co-created content on the topics of Pytrhon programming and networks. This partnership includes a focus on key yearly opportunties linking the organisations staff with teachers and students such as international womens' day.
We align material provided by the foundation with the school curricular to ensure there are opportunities for the content to be delivered during curriculum time, extending the reach to teachers and young people beyond enrichment.
Jonas Software
Working with Jonas Software enabled the charity to provide a one-off festival where hundreds of young people from different communities attended a full-day hackathon with a focus on developing their programming skills through collaboration and challenge. The charity arranged for ten of of their staff in departments including software development and digital marketing, to help mentor and coach small groups of pupils to help them develop sustainability-focused prototypes.
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Octopus Energy
With Octopus Energy, we provided STEM workshops for young people and training for community leaders and teachers with a focus on renewable energy. Our volunteers and ambassadors worked with groups of chidren across the UK including Swindon, Portsmouth, Reading, Birmingham, Devon and Leeds where they created physical systems connecting sensors to create weather stations, early warning systems and solar-powered solutions using the micro:bit.
RAL Space
In collaboration with RAL Space, the charity developed Out of this World, a programme where young poeple get active with physical computing and explore astronaut fitness. They code micro:bits to detect movement and create base counters, fitness assistants, steady movement monitors and use radio transmission to find frequenceis of alien life and report back to base. The activities included key messages from young women in the RAL Space staff, sharing their careers and enthursiasm with space. These activities were provided in community and youth groups, schools and as a two-day summer camp which was also supported by RAL Space ambassadors.
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Natural History Museum
With the National History Museum, the charity co-created a serires of AI and biodiversity lesson resources for teachers to support students to create their own biodiversity study. In these resources, students learn how AI works, ethical considerations and the concept of machine learning. These resources form a scheme of work made available through the National Education Nature Park. These resources help students to understand how AI can inform important environmental studies and enable them to develop important critical data science and self-evaluation skills.
From Students to Industry Professionals
Our work is guided by young people we once taught who are now applying digital skills in their careers. Former students including Kiara, Grace, and Lea support Digit<all>'s steering group today, helping us understand the skills employers need and how we can inspire more young people, particularly girls, to see technology as part of their future.
Kiara is a Software Developer working at IBM. She develops IBM z/OS Connect ©, which helps organisations modernise their core business applications by making mainframe systems accessible through APIs. Her role involves designing and developing new features, collaborating with teams across IBM, and helping customers connect traditional systems with modern digital technologies. She is also passionate about sharing knowledge and has presented webinars demonstrating how developers can build and manage APIs on IBM Z.
Through her ambassadorship with Digit<all>, Kiara promotes technical career pathways and shares her experiences with the next generation. Today, she is building technology used by organisations around the world while working as part of a global development team. She continues to learn new skills, contribute to innovative projects, and help shape the future of enterprise technology.Before beginning secondary school, Kiara aspired to become a dog handler in the police force. However, exposure to technology and coding in Year 7, particularly through Scratch, changed her aspirations and influenced the direction of her future career. She discovered software development in its most basic form and was fascinated by the opportunity to challenge herself while solving real-world problems.
This passion continued to grow throughout her school years and cemented her ambition to become a software engineer. These early experiences helped her realise that technology is not just about coding, but about creating solutions that make people's lives and work easier. Her career demonstrates how an early interest in digital skills can lead to exciting opportunities in software development and technology leadership.Don't worry if you don't know exactly what area of technology interests you yet. Be curious, try new things, and don't be afraid to make mistakes. Building confidence through small projects and learning from others is often more important than knowing everything from the start.
Technology is constantly changing, which is one of the things Kiara enjoys most about her career. There is always something new to learn, meaning no two days are ever quite the same. While technology careers offer exciting opportunities, the skills gained through learning about technology are valuable regardless of the career path someone chooses. Technology plays a role in almost every aspect of modern life, and skills such as problem-solving, communication, creativity, and digital literacy are highly transferable across industries. Most importantly, technology benefits from diverse perspectives, so there is a place for anyone who is willing to learn and get involved.
Grace is currently a Data Scientist at Lloyds Banking Group, where she works with data and artificial intelligence to solve complex problems and develop innovative solutions. Before joining Lloyds, she spent eight years at IBM working in AI consulting. During this time, she worked directly with clients, including large banks, and helped build AI assistants and other AI-powered solutions.
Starting her career at just 18, she was quickly given the opportunity to work on real-world projects, which gave her valuable experience and helped shape her career in technology.
Grace first became interested in technology while studying Computer Science at secondary school. Although Computer Science was not particularly popular among the girls at her school, she enjoyed coding and was keen to learn more. She became involved with TeenTech, which introduced her to the wide range of opportunities available within the technology sector and showed her that a career in technology could take many different forms.
She also took part in external technology activities through her school and mentored younger students through TeenTech competitions. As a TeenTech Digital Ambassador, she had the opportunity to work with large technology companies including Google, Microsoft and IBM. These experiences helped her realise that she wanted to pursue a career in technology and, in particular, explore the growing opportunities in AI.
Grace’s biggest piece of advice to younger students is to say yes and try new things. She believes that being exposed to opportunities such as TeenTech and the opportunities which Digit<all> offer can help young people understand what careers are available and discover areas they may not otherwise have considered. She would encourage girls to apply for every apprenticeship opportunity they can and not be put off if they feel different from the people around them — whether they are the youngest person in the room or the only girl.
Grace chose an apprenticeship over university because she wanted to gain practical experience, having seen others take that route, and began her career at IBM at 18. Her experience has shown her that being willing to step outside your comfort zone can open the door to exciting opportunities and a rewarding career in technology.
Lea is a Cloud and ML Engineer at Storm Reply UK, an AWS Premier Partner that consults on, builds, and manages cloud-based solutions. Within Storm Reply, she specialises in and focuses on ML and GenAI, designing and delivering AWS-based systems that put artificial intelligence to real-world use. Her role involves architecting solutions, building working demos, and guiding technical decisions that shape how these systems are built.
Her role has given her the opportunity to work across a wide range of clients and industries, from retail and hospitality to logistics, manufacturing, and construction. Each project brings its own challenges, and Lea enjoys adapting her approach to fit different sectors, technical environments, and business needs, whether that means architecting a new cloud solution or helping a team modernise how they work.
Lea's interest in technology started well before secondary school; modding Minecraft, and jailbreaking devices in her spare time. This curiosity led to her taking GCSE Computer Science, where she learnt Python, alongside fundamentals such as logic gates. During GCSEs, she took part in her first Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions and attended a cybersecurity-focused residential programme, which opened her eyes to the breadth of careers within cybersecurity and technology more broadly.
Through these extracurriculars, and the chance to speak to people already working in the industry, she began to see just how varied tech careers could be; including roles, like her own, that go beyond pure technical work and involve a strong client-facing element. That early exposure carried through into further extracurricular technology programmes and eventually into a digital technology bursary supporting her university studies.
Technology is such a broad and diverse industry, and each corner of it has incredible depth. Whatever your preferences are, from hands-on technical work, design, management, or something else entirely, there's almost certainly a role and sector within tech that will suit what you want. Rather than trying to force yourself into a mould that doesn't quite fit, focus on what genuinely motivates and excites you. Trust that excelling in the things you enjoy will naturally push you towards the path that's right for you.
Sophie recently graduated with a MSc in Astrophysics from LMU in Munich, Germany. Her work focused on investigating exoplanet atmospheres and planet formation theories. For her final project, she used Python codes to create theoretical models of atmospheres, perform statistical analysis on the data and produce insightful figures.
Beyond academics, Sophie is also passionate about education and currently works as a Physics and Maths tutor to secondary school students. She aims to encourage more people to pursue technology and STEM further, especially those from under-represented areas.
Sophie was introduced to a variety of technology and digital skills from a young age, exploring different software and digital platforms. She first became interested in coding through programmes such as Scratch and the Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA), which showed her how technology could be used to create, experiment and solve problems.
That early interest encouraged Sophie to keep looking for opportunities to develop and apply her digital skills throughout her education and career. Whether or not a role is obviously ‘technical’, she has found that being comfortable with technology and willing to learn new tools can open up opportunities and make tasks easier.
Technology and digital skills are incredibly useful and can be applied to an incredibly diverse range of industries and roles - whether that be more classic software engineering or running a business. As the world moves ever more digital, these skills become even more important.
You don't need to know exactly what you want to do with these skills when you start learning them. Dive in and have a go; there are so many ways to learn, whether that is through online software, Digit<all> opportunities or modding the games you love. Don't be afraid of getting things wrong either, there is no 'right' way to learn and experimenting, troubleshooting and trying again are all part of the process.
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Cara is a semi‑professional rugby player for Leicester Tigers Women, competing at the highest levels of the game in the Women’s Premiership. Alongside her sporting career, she works as an Investment Advisor at Sport England, supporting the investment in sport and physical activity sector.
Previously, Cara served as a PE Teacher and Head of Girls’ PE in a secondary school, where she supported leading the PE curriculum and supported increased participation, confidence and leadership in sport.
Initially unsure of her professional direction, she found inspiration through strong PE teacher role models, which sparked her interest in pursuing a future in sport and teaching. A single PE lesson introduced her to rugby an opportunity that set the foundation for her journey from local club participation, through the RFU England Pathway, to ultimately playing Premiership rugby.
This early influence also shaped her academic choices. Cara went on to study at the University of Worcester, completing her teaching qualification while continuing her rugby development at nearby Premiership side Worcester Warriors, further strengthening her commitment to both education and high performance sport.
Embrace opportunities early, because even small moments like picking up a rugby ball can shape your future. Develop both your academic and sporting skillsets, letting each strengthen the other. And above all, enjoy the journey because it can give you some amazing opportunities.
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Nana is currently a second-year Computer Science BSc student at the University of Reading, where he focuses on software engineering, artificial intelligence, and robotics. He actively works with languages such as Java, Python, and SQL to solve algorithmic challenges and build innovative applications. His recent experience includes developing an MMO-RPG text based game.
When he isn't debugging code, Nana can usually be found in the gym or at home prepping meals. Through his ambassadorship with Digit<all>, he brings this same energy and discipline to encouraging the next generation. He is passionate about showing students that thriving at university is about finding a healthy balance between academic rigor and personal well-being, and he loves sharing his holistic approach with aspiring technologists.
Nana's passion for technology started around Year 9 while studying Computer Science at school, largely thanks to the influence of his teacher, Mr. Jones. These classes heavily influenced his decision to pursue the subject further, revealing that coding was more than just memorizing syntax it was a dynamic tool for creative problem-solving. This early exposure caused curiosity that led him to explore everything from foundational programming to complex algorithmic logic. It gave him the confidence to tackle advanced technical challenges and ultimately drove his ambition to study for a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Today, that foundational interest has evolved into hands-on experience with artificial intelligence, mobile robotics, and enterprise software engineering. Throughout his degree, he has applied these early digital skills to build complex applications, including a procedurally generated software game, while working extensively with languages like Java and Python. As a Digit<all> ambassador, he now draws on his own journey to promote technical career pathways, hoping to inspire the next generation to discover the same exciting opportunities that shaped his own path in technology.
echnology is a rapidly evolving field, meaning the most valuable skill you can develop is a genuine curiosity to keep learning. Because digital skills are essentially tools for problem-solving, they can be applied to almost any passion or industry you want to pursue. You do not need to have your entire career mapped out or know exactly which niche you want to specialize in from the very beginning.
The best way to start is simply by getting hands-on with whatever interests you most right now. Try building a basic project, explore free online resources, or get involved with opportunities like Digit<all>. Do not be intimidated by complex concepts or the fear of making mistakes; encountering errors and troubleshooting them is how every professional learns. By following what genuinely excites you and staying open to experimenting, you will naturally discover the path that fits you best.