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Today we're launching our Impact Report for 2023 - what we've been up to last year and how we think it is making a difference. You can read more about all of this and download the full report here:

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Stolen from @architektoniczk on LinkedIn but just 👀 at these graphs. The movement patterns of boys and girls in a Spanish school playground. Boys take up the centre, girls are literally marginalised. And what they learn in school they take into public space. What a surprise.

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We've been having some great conversations with teenage girls recently, and the one thing that comes up over and again is that they want grown-up swings. Like these which are in Gorky Park in Moscow and light up at night...

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A new blog post on some really interesting research from @UniversityLeeds about what teenage girls think about park facilities - and what else they notice when they are looking at pictures of them. Can you spot what bothered them in the picture below?

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3 years

We've talked about swings, but there are so many different ways that teenage girls can be catered for in parks and public spaces. And - spoiler alert here - they are all cheaper than building a skate park. A thread of ideas...

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Last year @OxfordshireCC got some money from @NaturalEngland to consult with teenage girls - and to act on it. And last weekend, the social seating and shelter that they co-designed was opened in Cowley Marsh Park - and isn't it great?

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3 years

Talking to teenage girls about parks isn't straightforward. How do you know what you want when it's never been built before now? So we've put together some images as suggestions to get the conversation going, all on a nice downloadable PDF to print out.

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2 years

Oh this makes me so happy. In the place of a football pitch used mostly by men and boys they built a park designed for 'spontaneous activity' for everyone. With lots of input from teenage girls. Created in a suburb of Stockholm but repeatable pretty much anywhere.

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9 months

We come across discrimination against women and girls in parks and public spaces all the time. But it's rarely as blatant as this. 😡😡😡

Vicky Park Rangers FC

@vickyparkrfc

9 months

Regarding Our Contract with Tower Hamlets Council for Stepney Green Astro

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2 years

Can you help us? What makes parks and public spaces safer for women and girls? Are there case studies of real life interventions which have worked - anywhere in the world. If so, we'd love to hear about them. Please RT as widely as you can.

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2 years

Ah parks, those spaces where boys take up all the space being active while girls stand round the edges and watch. There's so much wrong with this photo, but what's particularly irksome is that it's promoting a pump track - which are so often territorialised by boys.

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1 year

We're very pleased to have been part of the steering group for the guidance on Safer Parks for Women and Girls which was launched so successfully last week. Both the full guidance and the executive summary are now our website - so fill your boots!

Safer Parks for Women and Girls Guidance

Clear guidance on how to create parks in which women and girls feel safe and welcome

www.makespaceforgirls.co.uk

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Make Space for Girls

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9 months

We're launching our Parkwatch report today - the first data on who's really using the teenage facilities in parks. The results are both shocking and not surprising at all. To read the full report and find out our recommendations, go to the website here:

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Make Space for Girls

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3 years

On teenage girls, swings and the right to lurk, which is important. Our new blog post today. And yes, I very much need one of these swings even as an adult.

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3 years

Teenage girls love hammocks, but they’re rare in UK parks. At first we thought that’s because they are hard to find and specify. But it turned out that’s not true - there are loads of amazing designs out there. So here follows a thread of hammocks for inspiration.

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2 years

Friday joy is discovering that there are trampolines on the pavements of Copenhagen. Space for girls (and everyone else!) doesn't just have to happen in parks...

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2 years

Amazing news - the motion has passed! So @GlasgowCC will put gender mainstreaming into all its planning decisions and can, rightly, call itself the most feminist city in the UK. We are, obviously, very much here to talk to them about parks...

Glasgow becomes 'UK's first feminist city' as town planning motion passes

A motion focused on putting women at the heart of town planning has passed in Glasgow, making it the first ‘feminist city’ in the UK.

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Make Space for Girls

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1 year

Park space in Bradford co-designed with teenage girls - and look it is built and in place. The result of a collaboration with lots of fantastic people and groups, and of course the girls themselves

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3 years

Outdoor gym facilities tend to be dominated by young men. But we have heard rumours of a park (in north Bristol perhaps?) where a social circle of recumbent bikes has been taken over by the teenage girls because they appreciate the chance to chat and exercise at the same time.

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3 years

Just in case there aren't enough reasons why teenage girls don't use parks, this 'art' piece has been installed on some park gates in Glasgow. I actually don't have the words for how angry this makes me.

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February 2021: 18year old girl raped in Festival Park Glasgow August 2021: Installation fitted to gates Festival Park Glasgow

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2 years

More good news. Dublin City Council have released their new play strategy - with a whole section about how they have consulted with teenage girls to produce it and will continue talking to them. And it's got our logo in it too, so we're quite chuffed.

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2 years

So, @EppingPlaygrou1 have been asking girls aged 10-18 what they want to find in a revamped park, and the answers are really interesting. 100% of the girls wanted spaces to meet and chat. So simple, so achievable.

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1 year

Something that teenage girls ask for quite often is an exercise bike that will also charge your phone. And it turns out that these are available - like this very stylish number from @WeWatt ...

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2 years

In the course of writing about teen shelters (someone has to...) I have found these little beacons of joy, which were built in 2010 in Hertfordshire. Why have we not covered the country in them since then? Do they still exist, does anyone know?

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1 year

@AngharadBeckett @UniversityLeeds @Barker1Anna @_GeorgeHolmes @WestYorkshireCA My teenage daughter's simile is that you have 20 cartons of orange juice. Two contain pee. Do you drink anything? The thing is we never know, and so we have to assume the worst. If you are told that one of the cartons is fine, you drink it. But until then...

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2 years

So what do girls want? Excitingly we now have the research which starts to answer this. Today's blog takes a look at what we can learn from the @YorkshireSport work with @Womeninsport_uk . And some of it is quite surprising.

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2 years

A trip to Superkilen in Copenhagen - proof that if you design an inclusive park, it will work brilliantly for teenage girls. And everyone else too. The highlight - swings x social seating!

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2 years

Isn't this wonderful? It's the fantastic Frizon in Umeå, Sweden, designed as a space where teenage girls feel comfortable and safe to hang out, all year round. We've just added it as one of the case studies on the website, so read more about it here:

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2 years

Great article about how a simple bench on a street corner can change public space for the better. And as the Barcelona example shows, this can work brilliantly for teenage girls. Social seating in a busy space is exactly what they want!

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1 year

More than that, teenagers have a right to play - which can quite often look like loitering, or horseplay, or hanging around. But we just need to get over ourselves. Public space is the only autonomous space teenagers have. They need it in order to become independent.

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@exitthelemming

1 year

I'd take Sunak's crusade against teenage 'loitering' more seriously if his party since 2010 hadn't closed more than 800 libraries, sold off hundreds of playing fields, cut arts funding by a third and local authority grants by 40%. Young people need cheap, interesting things to do

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3 years

inspired by Rösens Rodda Matta, Malmo, the first park to be designed by and for girls age 16-24. They specifically wanted gym bars – high enough to hang from, swing round, lean against, lurk around, but not so tall that they become a magnet for young men wanting to do chin ups.

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9 months

We're launching the Parkwatch report tomorrow - and there's a lot of interest. Listen out for us tomorrow on @BBCRadioLondon and @BBCYork among others, and watch out for us on @bbcpointswest and @BBCNWT as well. And perhaps other places too...

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@MakeSpaceforGi1

2 years

Amazing women, amazing game. The #lionesses are changing everything. We are going to need a lot more space for girls now.

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@MakeSpaceforGi1

3 years

Yay, today we have become a Registered Charity, no. 1193772. Now we can really get moving.

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@MakeSpaceforGi1

1 year

So, @Sport_England have published some draft guidance on Active Design - creating spaces which help people be more, well, active. But it seems to be done through the lens of what @CCriadoPerez would call the default male. Lets take a look. A thread🧵

Sport England

@Sport_England

1 year

🗣️ #SportEngland want to hear your views on the latest draft of our Active Design guidance, which is being developed in partnership with @activetraveleng and @OHID . The consultation will close on Friday 10 February. 📆

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8 months

Making better spaces for teenage girls doesn't have to be complicated. As part of upgrades to Sandpits Park, @bathnes installed this lovely social seating. And there's a swing installation for older children too.

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@MakeSpaceforGi1

8 months

In the Houses of Parliament today to talk about the importance of safer public spaces for girls and young women

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3 years

They experimented with what made girls linger in Einsielder Park, Vienna and found that hammocks worked. It turns out that the hammocks in Hayburn Park in Glasgow are also full of teenage girls.

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2 years

This is clearly the top end of what anyone might want in a park, but the basic principle is simple. Girls want a big bank of grown up sized swings, set away from the little kids, that they feel belong to them.

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3 years

The research shows that if there’s single pitch in a MUGA, the boys dominate it. So dividing the space up gives girls a better chance to play. The divider can be whatever you want: it’s a goal, a shelter, a place for Tik Tok dances. Oh and we put seats in it as well…

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2 years

This is the kind of skate park we need. Maggie Daley Park in Chicago is a space for skateboards, scooters and even roller-skates*, with enough space so that they all feel welcome. *it also turns into an ice rink in the winter. My mind is blown

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Make Space for Girls

@MakeSpaceforGi1

1 year

We need your help! We want to know who's really using the MUGAs, skate parks and BMX tracks - so can you get into the park and help us count? It's all happening the weekend of the 27-29 May, and it's really simple - all the details are on the website.

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2 years

Invisible Women is what kick started us into being, so how pleasing to find this fantastic summary doodle of @CCriadoPerez 's book by @SimonHeath1

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3 years

Dear Bank, We would really like to open a charity account with you, but every single document mentions the Chairman. We don't have one. Love, Make Space for Girls

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2 years

We were very pleased to be asked by @talklandscape 's Landscape magazine to be part of their issue on inequality and public space. A whole set of really interesting perspectives to think about. Whose Landscape is it anyway?

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@MakeSpaceforGi1

1 year

A question: can anyone point us at a council which has produced supplementary planning guidance around safety for women and girls? Thanks in advance!

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@MakeSpaceforGi1

3 years

During lockdown teenagers could meet in groups of six but couldn’t go into each others houses. So they had to be creative about where they could hang out. And we noticed how many could be seen at the top of climbing frames. It turns out that being high up is fun.

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Make Space for Girls

@MakeSpaceforGi1

3 years

And you can see all of these ideas put together on our website:

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.

www.makespaceforgirls.co.uk

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@MakeSpaceforGi1

1 year

Fantastic to be getting the message out about safer and better parks for girls (and women) on @BBCr4today this morning with @Fr_RowntreePark as part of #saferparks

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Make Space for Girls

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3 years

@Joanna_Barrett We work to make parks and public spaces better for teenage girls, and such a huge part of the problem is not just safety, but this kind of behaviour. Why would girls want to go on the skatepark when they get catcalled and harassed?

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1 year

That’ll be us in Parliament then, speaking at the APPG on parks and green spaces…

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@MakeSpaceforGi1

9 months

Our Parkwatch report is coming out on September 27th. The results are pretty shocking - girls really are designed out of our parks. So if you're someone who might be interested in covering this, let us know, either on here or via the form on our site.

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1 year

@iwontwheesht @UniversityLeeds @Barker1Anna @_GeorgeHolmes @WestYorkshireCA That chapter is pretty much why we exist as a charity. @CCriadoPerez

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3 years

A group of girls in Belgium were sad that “their” shelter had fallen into disrepair; they imagined some wonderful mushroom shapes to replace it, which inspired this look… and the shelters are designed to collect rain water too.

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9 months

Perhaps the most shocking of all the statistics from our Parkwatch report. 90% of the facilities in parks are 90% used by boys and young men. Read more here:

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2 years

Look at this. No, really, look. @Proludic 's designs for Townhill Green in Southampton include social exercise bikes. You have no idea how exciting it is to see these ideas being built in real life!

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8 months

Guest blog from @emmajbeaumont about Pounds Park in Sheffield and how lighting there doesn't just make it safer but gives permission for older teenagers to play. Which they very much want to do.

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3 years

Back to Rösens Rodda Matta, Malmo, where the girls designed a stage, which has been great for performances (formal/informal) and used by the community for fitness classes etc; the tree log stools provide social space and double up as stepping stones.

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3 years

This is just fantastic. A park designed by teenage girls, for teenage girls. In Myanmar.

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2 months

It’s not just the design of spaces which make a difference for teenage girls, the facilities themselves matter too. Great to see @Proludic designing equipment which isn’t just for the default male – with lower & narrower bars for example. Works various groups- inclusive design.

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3 years

Some fantastic projects for teenage girls here. Oh, and us too...

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2 years

Why social seating isn't just great for teenage girls - perhaps it can also help our parks feel safer too. A blog post, with funky seating and diagrams.

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3 months

It’s our third birthday this week & in the last year we were delighted to be a part of the team which created guidance on ‘Safer Parks for Women and Girls’ alongside @greenflagawards , The University of Leeds, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and Keep Britain Tidy.

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2 years

Excited to see the final plan for this green space in Fagley #Bradford , which was co-designed with local adolescent girls. Pleased to have contributed to the workshops and really looking forward to seeing the site ready for use in Spring 2023!

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2 years

And if you know of any other great swings (apart from the utterly wonderful Swing Time, below) can you share them with us? We'd love to see more.

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@avril_johnstone @architektoniczk Yes it's research by Architecktoniczk iwhich is going to be published soon - they've put some detail about it on LinkedIn if you want to know more:

Ewelina Jaskulska on LinkedIn: #architektoniczki #equalschool #femcity #genderplanning | 20 comments

The inaugural installment of Architektoniczki's evidence-based urbanism series initiates its exploration with a focus on schoolyards. Evident gender… | 20 comments on LinkedIn

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Make Space for Girls

@MakeSpaceforGi1

1 year

So how can you campaign for better parks and public spaces for teenage girls when the planning system looks so complicated? That's what our newest guide is here to help with - how to navigate the system and get your voice heard. Read all about it here:

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This is double good news. Firstly that @GreenFlagAwdInt now award a prize for making parks better for women and girls. Even better is that @Fr_RowntreePark won it for their work with teenage girls! Now they just need some money to provide the girls with facilities - anyone?

Friends of Rowntree Park

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Thrilled to have won for our programme of events this summer focused on teenage girls. Every girls deserves access to public spaces and the opportunities they offer. Want to support/help us in 2024? Get in touch!! #saferparks @MakeSpaceforGi1 @GreenFlagAward

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2 years

Our collaboration with @LSECities and @atjuliaking has begun in Crewe, where girls are collaboratively mapping their urban spaces - and it already looks both fascinating and revealing...

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Fantastic workshop yesterday with Urban&Civic at @WaterbeachWB and 88 incredibly creative and committed teenage girls whose ideas for parks just blew us away

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1 year

Yes, it's only a number but ten thousand followers is pretty cool, even so. Thank you everyone!

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2 years

Safety is one of the biggest barriers which stops girls and women accessing parks and public spaces. A project from @northumbriapol and @NorthumbriaPCC has come up with guidance for safer parks, including making them work for teenage girls. Hurrah.

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1 year

Ten days to go and we need as many of you as possible to get into the park and see who is using the MUGAs, skate parks and BMX tracks. So spread the word, and see you in the park over the May Bank Holiday weekend - full details on the website

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2 years

Really interesting blog post from @SportsMattR about why standard MUGAs don't work, and how to make them better. And one answer is this brilliant piece of design from Copenhagen. More of this kind of thinking please!

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So this appeared in our feed recently. It's a different approach to a MUGA, by a French company @playgones_fr . It definitely feels safer - no big fence, no narrow entrances and lots of difference spaces. What do you reckon?

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3 years

With thanks to M.Arch students Isobel and Harry who created our fantastic visualisations.

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@MakeSpaceforGi1

2 years

Hello #Manchester . We are working with a group of grad students from @ManMetUni who want to talk to teenage girls in #Hulme about what they would want in parks. Does anyone have any contacts or help? RTs much appreciated. Ta!

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A massive round of applause for our @ManMetUni students who have finished their two week project, developing ideas for teenage girls at Hulme Park. The stuff they have produced is so inspiring. Anyone want to build some?

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Hello to all our new followers. Two weeks ago we had fifty, and now we have more than a thousand. Thank you for being interested in us and our campaigns, there's lots more good stuff to come.

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Really pleased to say that we won ‘Best Emerging Non-Profit’ at the @thorntoneducat1 Awards last night! These are all about recognising work in architecture and engagement so it’s a real honour.

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Blimey. A document which does not just mention gender and children and planning, it refers to the pioneering work in Vienna about making parks better for girls. Today is a good day. 👏👏👏👏

Hackney Council

@hackneycouncil

3 years

Our new planning rules will put young people at the heart of new developments in Hackney, helping them: 🏃‍♀️Be physically active 🍃Connect with nature 🚸Play in safe public spaces 👇An innovative step towards a child-friendly borough & #AFairRecovery 👇

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Guess what, we're building a new website with the very wonderful @sidelabs_ and it will be ready very soon, but seeing as it is Friday afternoon you can have a sneak peek. What do you reckon?

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Make Space for Girls is 100 days old today. We've got further than we ever expected in such a short time so thank you to everyone who has supported us and helped so far. Lots of exciting projects in the pipeline ahead too - watch this space!

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What would cities look like if women were at the centre of design thinking? Well indeed. Interested - and who wouldn't be - then come along to this online panel tomorrow. Sign up here to join.

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Earlier this year we ran a seminar for @HomesEngland about making public spaces more inclusive for girls - and also wrote a short introduction. This is now on our website, and perfect for the council or other public body in your life:

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Here they are in the daytime

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MUGAs are the most common form of teenage provision in the country. Thousands of them. But who's using them? Staggeringly, it's 92% boys. Read more in our Parkwatch report, out today.

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We posted before about this funded PhD opportunity into digital co-design for urban spaces with teenage girls but the person appointed has had to pull out. So if you - or anyone else - wants to do this very important and ground-breaking work, please apply!

Co-Creating Inclusive Active Spaces: Empowering Teen Girls through Digital Interventions

The proposed project aims to co-produce more equitable, inclusive, and active urban spaces with teenage girls through digital methods and interventions. The project acknowledges that cities are often...

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Hello @joelycett . We have a problem, as you can see. Councils provide all sorts of facilities for teenage boys but nothing at all for teenage girls. Do you think you can help us? It's only half the teenage population after all..

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Look at this. It's the beginnings of an area co-designed by teenage girls in Bradford. Just so amazing to see.

Mariam Fargin

@MariamFargin

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Delighted to be at the Co-designed Greenspace Development event. Well done to Community Engagement Manager Caroline Swain & the JU:MP Team - the driving force for delivering/embedding complex interventions at grass roots. Credit to the local community & dev. team @davebennison

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Latest edition of the Make Space for Girls newsletter is out today, featuring helpful resources, podcasts and protest art. Read it here, and sign up if you're not already on the list!

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“As a society we nag kids to get off their phones into the real world, but won’t make room for them… and are then surprised when children don’t flourish” “…teenagers loitering in public spaces are met with adult suspicion and hostility”.

If you really want kids to spend less time online, make space for them in the real world | Gaby...

Tech firms can do more, but it’s the government’s job to ensure children have safe places to play – and it’s not doing it, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Exciting times - the new website is now live at And there is a newsletter out, which also features our new research report and news from Oxfordshire,Kent and Tiblisi. You read it here first.

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1 year

And it begins. Really excited to be at @UniversityLeeds for the launch of the new guidance for safer parks for women and girls

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2 years

A short addendum to the posts and blog posts about shelter - some great images of the Hertfordshire shelters in use. Love this.

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3 years

Space for girls is a health issue as well. A guest blog from @guardian journalist @peterwalker99 on how park infrastructure works against girls staying active, from his hew book.

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3 years

Look at this. Isn't it great? Something to sit on, hang around on, climb, have a chat on? Even better, we were sent the link by a council who is thinking of asking teenage girls if they'd like to see them in their parks.

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1 year

We've had people asking what is a MUGA? The answer is that it's one of those fenced pitches that are really common in parks and rec grounds all over the country. So are they mostly used by boys? Help us find out by taking part in Parkwatch next weekend!

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3 years

If you want your local council to #MakeSpaceForGirls , we've just put a guide on how to get started on our website. With exciting downloadable letter templates and much more. And if you do talk to them, we really want to know how it goes.

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2 years

So, because we were asked by @susiejgray09 , and because if there was ever a day to think about shelters, this is it, a short thread of what good youth shelters can look like.

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4 months

In our sporadic series of 'nice things on a Friday', here's Tophane Park in Istanbul designed by Carve. It's social seating and play, for adults, teenagers and children.

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