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.

More from CSC’s gap year student, Joe, who is now running a daily chess club while volunteering at a school in rural Nepal.

Our free chess webinars resume on Monday 28th April, aimed at children aged between 7 and 13 who want to take the next steps to chess mastery.

CSC will be running a community chess club at Old Spitalfields Market in east London for the summer months. Please join us!

We were delighted to hear from keen chess player Nick Prior who is raising money for CSC by undertaking Yorkshire’s Three Peaks Walk.

CSC gap year student, Joe, was invited to make the ceremonial first move in a FIDE rated event in Kathmandu.

CSC ran a tournament at City Central Library, Stoke-on-Trent, for members of our blossoming Staffordshire library chess clubs.

On Saturday 29th March CSC held a session to develop the classroom management skills of our tutors.

In collaboration with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council, CSC was delighted to host a chess tournament for the borough’s primary schools at Kensington Town Hall on Tuesday, 25th March.