Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2026!
Coding is for EVERYONE which is why we run our clubs with neurodivergent children in mind! Want to find out more about our clubs and learn how our mentors support our members?
Keep reading to find out...
It’s Neurodiversity Celebration Week this week, with a focus of “Making Organisational Change Happen”! We thought we’d take some time to chat about some of the things we do as an organisation to make the lives of all of our members (especially those neurodiverse amongst them) easier!
Regular training for our STEM-Certified Mentors!
To start with all of our STEM certified mentors get regular training on how best to support our neurodivergent members. We also spend time talking to each other and discussing what works best for our sessions, allowing us to learn and adapt how we run our clubs to make them better for everyone involved!
Proud recipients of the Autism Inclusion Award!
To back up that point we have also received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society, showing our dedication to working to make our sessions better for autistic and neurodiverse children!
Collecting feedback from our community!
One thing we also do is talk to our members and collect feedback on what makes things better and easier for them. We feel letting our neurodiverse members lead us in what they need provides a much more comfortable environment for them, allowing them to thrive in the situations the club brings to them!
If you think we’d be a good fit for your neurodiverse family member, or any family member that enjoys a kind welcoming coding club, 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.
