The National Centre is operated by a network of school-based Computing Hubs teachcomputing.org/hubs, geographically distributed around England.

Funding of £84m was announced in the November 2017 United Kingdom budget to upskill around 8000 computer science teachers.

Simon Peyton Jones FRS, of Microsoft Research, was appointed as the organisation's chairman in March 2019.

Simon Peyton Jones FRS, of Microsoft Research, was appointed as the organisation's chairman in March 2019.

[2] It has been created by STEM Learning at the University of York, the BCS (British Computer Society) and the Raspberry Pi Foundation.