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The Code Zone is proud to support future-focused organisations looking to inspire young minds through creative coding! Let us help your team get started with the Game Dev Academy or Game Dev Club.
What Future Makers asks of a company
Future Makers connects businesses with children who would not otherwise get near the technology industry. The ask is small and specific: sponsorship of club places, or people from your team giving an hour to talk about what they actually do all day. Both matter, and the second is usually the one children remember.
Why it works
The digital skills gap is not mainly a shortage of ability. It is a shortage of children who have ever met somebody doing the job, and who therefore know it is a thing a person like them could do. An hour with a real engineer, designer or producer does more for that than any amount of careers material, particularly for children whose families have no connection to the industry.
We run coding clubs for children aged 6 to 16, online across the UK and in person across Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, with over 1,000 children enrolled. Children work in groups of no more than six with the same DBS-checked, STEM-certified mentor each week, building their own games rather than following a set course. More than a third of our members are autistic or have ADHD, based on what parents tell us when they join.
What you get back
Not a logo on a website, or not only that. You get a genuine route into a group of young people who are already building things, at the age where what they think they could become is still being decided.
In 2024 we were the global winner of the Xero Beautiful Business Fund for Upskilling For The Future, 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. In 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society.
If that sounds like something your company would want to be part of, email info@thecodezone.co.uk and we will send the detail.
How a partnership usually starts
Nearly always with one conversation and one visit. Somebody from your team joins a session, sees six children building six different games, and works out for themselves which part of it their company could usefully support. That is a better basis than a proposal document, and it takes an hour.
Sponsorship of club places is the most direct route, because cost is the thing that actually stops families joining. Volunteering time is the other, and the two work well together: a sponsored cohort who also get to meet the people doing the job is a noticeably different experience from either on its own.
