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This past weekend Mentor Sam left The Code Zone HQ to join fellow STEAM educators at Full STEAM Ahead 2026! Keep reading to find out what he got up to from playing with LEGO to accepting an award!
Over the last few years BAFTA have been running the Young Game Designers competition. This year one of our longest attending members, Matt, has entered into the concept category and has been announced as a finalist!
At The Code Zone, we believe that anyone and everyone should have access to learning to code regardless of their gender or background. Which is why we want to discuss the research done by King's College in London in regards to female students studying computer science.
Technology companies will have to take more action to keep children safe on the internet, following the introduction of the Online Safety Act.
Kids SHOULD learn to code and here's why!
We are very excited to have been nominated in the What's On 4 Kids Awards this year.
The Code Zone has launched a virtual coding club in response to Covid-19 safety measures wiping out children’s after school activities.
The Code Zone has launched in the UK, plugging Britain’s coding skills shortage with an interactive virtual club for youngsters aged 6 to 14.
Coverage of The Code Zone, and the awards we have been given, with the awarding body and year attached so you can check any of it.
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 activity benefits, safeguarding, inclusivity, community impact and business achievements. In 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society, the UK’s leading autism charity.
In 2024 we were the global winner of the Xero Beautiful Business Fund for Upskilling For The Future, and in 2026 we won the STEAM Educator category at the Full STEAM Ahead Awards.
We are careful about how we describe these because the looser version is the one that gets picked apart. Second in a judged list of a hundred is not the same claim as being the second-best provider in the country, and we do not make the second one.
Over 1,000 children are enrolled across our online and in-person clubs. Every mentor is background-checked and STEM-certified, and our awards programme is STEM accredited.
The Code Zone teaches children aged 6 to 16 to code by building their own games. Outside the UK that is the Game Dev Academy, which is self-paced: there is no fixed session time, so a child works at whatever hour suits them in any time zone.
A STEM-certified, background-checked mentor answers by text and video message during the week, so nobody is left on their own with it, and children build their own games rather than working through a set course. Creating an account is free and takes no card details, so you can see the platform before deciding anything.
Children start in Scratch, and the mentor sets harder work as soon as they are ready for it. Levels move down as readily as up so the work always fits, and staying where you are is a perfectly good outcome.
Mentors write a note on every child, which is how we know when somebody is ready to move on, and it is why a child who has gone quiet for three weeks does not simply go unnoticed.
More than a third of our members are autistic or have ADHD, based on what parents tell us when they join.
In 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society, the UK's leading autism charity, 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.
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