How Our Clubs Encourage Creativity and Innovation!
Here at The Code Zone we champion creativity, so our clubs are structured so that all of our members have the opportunity to turn their brilliant ideas into reality!
If there’s one thing we love about our sessions, it’s how multi-talented Zonebot is! However if we were asked for the second thing we love, it’s how creative and innovative our members are!
So much so, we thought we’d take some time to give you the run down on some of the ways we format our clubs to inspire even more of those two precious substances.
Making the game your own
Starting from the very basics, every game and project we work on has a plethora of assets that allow our members to put their own creative spin on their games super easily! Even though our weekly games are the same for all our members they always look so different!
Fixing bugs
As our members progress through the levels we start introducing bugs to their games, small things for them to fix to get the game working properly. We keep our help a little more vague to keep these members focussed on using innovative and creative thinking, skills that branch out beyond the coding and to general problem solving skills!
Flexible thinking
Coding also lends itself to creativity and innovation in general. There’s often many different approaches to solving problems or getting things working, so taking the initiative and being a bit more flexible with your thinking is a necessity!
If you want to learn some great transferable skills AND flex your creativity and innovation, why not sign up for a free taster session today!
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.
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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.
