Jemma Clark's MSc research project took on a really important question for Make Space for Girls, what is really happening in teenage spaces? And what in particular works for girls? In this blog, she shares some details of her findings, in a report which was short-listed for the RPTI Research Excellence Student Award.

In this guest blog, Kuljeet Sibia, architect and senior design manager explains why this innovative project by the London Legacy Development Corporation matters to her.

The Equality Act is really important for our work at Make Space for Girls. If applied properly, it should require planners and other decision makers to consider the results of their decisions on a wide range of marginalised groups - including teenage girls. A key part of that is the use of Equality Impact Assessments. In this guest blog, Sophie Stanton explains how these could be made to work better.

For this blog, we've invited Dr Jenny Wood and Anna Gaffney from A Place In Childhood to talk about some of the innovative co-creating work they've been doing with young people around place and neighbourhoods.

Barcelona has already done a lot of interesting work in creating spaces and places that work better for girls and for women too. In this blog, Laia Corrales gives us a tour of some newer play spaces which have been designed with inclusivity in mind

This blog is the story of a collaboration between five passionate female social impact entrepreneurs to address the pressing issues that we all feel strongly about, surrounding gender inequality in public spaces to address inequality in public spaces for girls in Cape Town. Two of them were already friends of the charity. Joke Quintens has been running the excellent Girls Make the City project in Belgium, and Tiisetso Mofokeng has written blogs for us before. Tiisetso explains what their new project is about.

Over the last couple of years, we've been talking to Tim Morton of St Matthew's Big Local in Leicester about their work and how they can include the whole community by engaging with teenage girls. And then he told us how a simple piece of activation worked for one girl - as they can both explain. Tim first.

Earlier in the year, Make Space for Girls worked with a range of partners on a Natural England project which engaged with teenage girls from the Name It Youth project to find out what they wanted from greenspace. In this blog, Louise Montgomery from Natural England explains why they felt the project was so necessary.

Emma Beaumont writes about the design of Pounds Park in Sheffield - a space where lighting is a key part of the design and young people are encouraged to play even after dark.

Abby Doyle, one of Girlguiding Scotland's Speak Out Champions, explains why their campaign this year is all about improving parks and other public spaces for women and girls, in particular making them safer.

Friends of Rowntree Park ran a really successful programme for teenage girls - this is how they did it, and on a tiny budget too.

Making Plans: How you can use the planning system to make space for girls

Peer research allows young women to create research that will shape their areas. We have been working with Countryside Partnerships and the London School of Economics on a peer research project in the London borough of Brent - here's the report on this work.

The city of The Hague in Holland is working to create more inclusive playgrounds. This is just one of them.

How the Name It Project put teenage girls at the heart of changing green space

A look at some research with teenage girls and photos which shows how important safety is for park access

Article in Physical Activity Facilities magazine about our work with Wheelscape to create a more inclusive skatepark.

In this blog, Prue Wales explores how public bodies can use the principles of social value to create a platform to deliver long term societal impact.