Summer At The Code Zone 2025!
The summer holidays are here, but that doesn't mean the coding fun has to stop. Find out about all of the cool stuff we'll be getting up to this summer, including our brand new online summer camps!
With the summer holidays arriving, you might be finding yourself at a loss for things to do. Luckily, we here at The Code Zone have some excellent things lined up to help keep your minds active with loads of fun activities!
Check out Game Dev Club
First of all, our clubs are continuing to run throughout the summer holidays, so all our members can still tune in every week and have a great time coding excellent games with friends and mentors!
Regular club times a little tricky over the summer?
Join our Game Dev Academy, where all the games come out on your dashboard and our mentors are available via the text chat to lend a helping hand!
Take part in a Game Jam
Game Jams! Over the summer we have two incredible game jams planned, the first of which starting soon on the 28th of July! Not sure what a game jam is? No worries! Our game jams are a time where we let the creativity of our members shine even brighter.
We give them a theme and a few weeks to work on their own games or animations that fit within them. Keep your eyes peeled in clubs and on our socials to learn more about the themes as we announce them!
Explore Minecraft Mod Worlds
If Minecraft is more your style, hop on to Minecraft Mod Worlds, included with every Code Zone membership, and learn how to make minecraft mods while exploring custom built worlds to teach you as much as we can.
Parents and siblings can even play along with our included companion accounts letting everyone experience it all together!
Join our Online Summer Camp
And finally, something entirely new for 2025, The Game Dev Summer Camp! This week long experience offers you a load of fun activities, with a new game to hack and mod every single day, culminating in a Game Jam on the final day.
This comes with all our usual mentor support via the text chat and video messages to help you to make the best possible games!
We'll be running the camps on August 4th to August 8th, and August 11th to August 15th. Click here to sign up for Game Dev Summer Camp.
So what are you waiting for? If you’re ready for an excellent summer of coding activities, sign up for a free taster session today and meet one of our STEM certified mentors!
About The Code Zone
We run coding clubs for children aged 6 to 16, online across the UK and in person across Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Over 1,000 children are enrolled.
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.
We were the global winner of the Xero Beautiful Business Fund for Upskilling For The Future in 2024, and won the STEAM Educator category at the 2026 Full STEAM Ahead Awards. In 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society.
A live club is one hour a week, in a group of no more than six, with the same DBS-checked, STEM-certified mentor every week. Children build their own games rather than working through a set course, starting in Scratch or MakeCode and moving to Python and TypeScript when they are ready. Our awards programme is STEM accredited.
More than a third of our members are autistic or have ADHD, based on what parents tell us when they join, which is part of why the Autism Inclusion Award matters to us more than the others. Children can keep the camera off, type instead of speaking, and take a break without it disrupting anyone.
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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.
