Six teams took part in CSC’s end-of-year tournament in Leeds.

CSC staff performed a double simultaneous display at HMP Isis n south east London.

Over 20,000 people attended ChessFest in Trafalgar Square and enjoyed a day of fun, free, family-friendly chess activities.

The first ever ChessFest Portishead was a huge success, with over 2,000 people enjoying the activities.

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, paid a visit to one of our ChessFest school days to meet a school from her Leeds West constituency.

CSC’s annual Merseyside Schools Chess Tournament was held in the spectacular setting of St George’s Hall, Liverpool.

CSC ran three days of schools’ events in the delightful setting of Manchester Square Gardens, Westminster.

Gransmere Primary School in Hackney recently hosted our end-of-year borough tournament.

CSC organised the Newham Schools’ Chess Tournament in the splendour of Stratford Old Town Hall.

CSC ran chess activities at the largest dedicated annual children’s literature festival in the UK.

Congratulations to the team from HMP/YOI Isis, gold medalists in the recent Continental Chess Championships for Prisoners, led by their CSC tutors.

CSC teamed up with She Plays to Win and St Marylebone CE School to run a dedicated girls’ tournament in Westminster.

The EBRD kindly hosted a day of chess activities at their headquarters in Canary Wharf for nine schools from Tower Hamlets.

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with an amazing school in Liverpool aimed at training and supporting new tutors across Merseyside.

Chess is booming across Merseyside and there’s a lot to look forward to this summer, as Liverpool hosts ChessFest and the 2025 British Chess Championships.

Pierrepont Gamston Primary School in Nottingham was among the teams taking on some visiting juniors from Lithuania in an event supported by CSC.

We were delighted to hear of the success of two of our pupils in a recent Delancey UK Chess Challenge MegaFinal.

Ellie Reeves MP was a strong junior chess player. Recently she paid a visit to Ivydale Primary School in Southwark to take a look at our programme in action.

CSC CEO Malcolm Pein delivered a fundraising simultaneous display at Schroders in the City of London.

ChessFest returns in 2025 culninating in CSC taking over Trafalgar Square for a great celebration of chess on Sunday 13th July.