Anti Bullying Week 2025!
Happy Anti-Bullying Week! Want to know how we work to ensure that our clubs are safe, welcoming, and inclusive? Read on to find out more...
It’s anti-bullying week, and we thought that we here at The Code Zone take some time to tell you about the ways in which we make sure our clubs are a fun, safe space for all!
What is bullying?
But first… What is bullying? The Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) defines bullying as “The repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group by another person or group, where the relationship involves an imbalance of power. Bullying can be physical, verbal or psychological. It can happen face-to-face or online.”
How does The Code Zone keep kids safe online?
So… how do we work to ensure that never happens? Well the first way is the way we handle out of club interactions. Unless permission is granted from both sets of parents/guardians (and children) our members will only be able to interact with each other during session times, monitored by our mentors who are trained to pick up on signs of bullying at high speed!
Our mentors are great at picking up on things that can be seen as bullying and taking them as teaching moments to explain how they might be hurtful to others.
Often younger people don’t realise the impact some of these things have.
We also make sure that each of our members knows about how to stay safe online! We explain the importance of not sharing usernames/personal information with people we don't know to keep them away from people who would do harm to them. So not only do they get awesome coding knowledge, they also understand how to stay safe online!
Ready to join a club?
If you want to learn to code in a fun and safe environment with a STEM certified mentor, drop us a line and we’ll happily discuss what options are best for you!
About The Code Zone
We run coding clubs for children aged 6 to 16. Live online clubs are open to children anywhere in the UK, and our in-person clubs run across Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Over 1,000 children are enrolled.
A live club is one hour a week, in a group of no more than six, with the same DBS-checked, STEM-certified mentor.
Children build their own games rather than working through a set course, and levels move down as readily as up so the work always fits. More than a third of our members are autistic or have ADHD, based on what parents tell us when they join.
Most children start in Scratch or MakeCode and move to Python and TypeScript when they are ready. Mentors write a note on every child after every session, so we know when somebody is ready to move up or would rather stay put. Nothing is forced.
In 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society, and in 2026 we were ranked second in the UK in Club Hub UK’s Top 100 Children’s Activity Providers, scored by five independent judges on safeguarding, inclusivity and community impact. Every mentor is DBS-checked and STEM-certified.
More like this
The blog is in two halves. Guides are the evergreen explainers written by the mentors who teach the clubs, covering the questions parents actually ask: what comes after Scratch, how to support a coding-mad child when you cannot code yourself, and what works for autistic and ADHD children.
Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what an hour actually looks like before you book anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
The first session is a free taster and we do not ask for card details. Book a free taster session, see what it costs, or read about support for neurodivergent children.
