Our Vision is a world where all parks and public spaces are designed to make teenage girls feel valued and included and where everyone feels welcome
Parks, play equipment and public spaces for older children and teenagers are currently designed for the default male. It’s time to make space for girls.
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Between 8 October and 15 October 2025, all donations to Make Space for Girls made through the Big Give will be doubled by its Women and Girls Match Fund.
Your donation will support our work in research, youth engagement, and campaigning for change, working towards our goal of all parks and public spaces in the UK being designed to be inclusive for all. Donate and have your donation doubled.
Our Strategy
It is time to Make Space for Girls.
Teenage girls are often excluded from the design of parks and public spaces, leaving them without places where they feel welcome or valued.
To ensure that they have access to spaces that meet their needs and are inclusive, we work directly with teenagers and young women, campaigning and advocating for them to be involved in the process of designing places they will use and enjoy.
What does better
look like?
We’ve created some images to get people talking about what might be found in spaces designed with girls in mind. There isn’t an “off the shelf” solution. Key to making space work for girls is talking to teenage girls, to understand their take on their local spaces, the barriers they face to enjoying these spaces and involving them in the design process.
Most councils have spent more time and money on facilities for dog waste than they have for teenage girls.
This has gone on for too long. It’s time to make space for girls.
Abigail Gaines
Friends of Rowntree Park
