Happy International Day of Friendship!
It's International Day of Friendship and we'll be celebrating by continuing to make sure our clubs are a safe, fun, and welcoming space for all!
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It’s International Day of Friendship! I don’t know about you but I love my friends, and think they should be celebrated at all times. It’s just luck that they have a day all about it!
But how, I hear you ask, does this matter or impact our coding sessions both online and in person? Easily! These sessions provide an excellent, safe space for our members to chat to likeminded people in their own age group!
The power of STEM Certified Mentors
Our Mentors are always happy for members to chat to each other about their current interests while coding away. After all, seeing the same people every week is a great way to make friends so we’d be MAD to not let conversations spark up!
This feels even more valued in our IRL sessions, where our members can more easily have face to face conversations with each other, drastically improving that rapport build up!
Participate how you feel comfortable
Across all of our sessions, both online and in person our mentors aim to invite everyone to participate in conversations and activities we have going on, allowing even the quieter members to have their voices and opinions heard. Our main aim is to have the sessions be fun, and anything learned is an extra bonus.
Book a FREE taster to give it a go!
If you think a coding club is a great way to have your child build friendships, why not sign up for a free taster session today and see what we can do 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.
