Girls' Space - Nicehearts

Girls’ Space activities provide open activities, peer support groups, and sexual counselling and therapy for girls and young women aged 10–28, while respecting gender diversity.

You can find Girls’ Space activities in Vantaa and in Lappeenranta.

At Girls’ Space, you can spend time and meet new people and participate in various activities. Our weekly programme includes different peer support groups and open activities.

Girls’ Space also has a sexual therapist and counsellor whom you can meet by appointment if you have questions or considerations regarding your own sexuality. You can contact Anniina at anniina.kaljunen@nicehearts.com for more information.

The values of Girls’ Space are equality, non-discrimination, community joy. Our activities are based on respectful and appreciative encounters, where everyone is treated as an individual. Our community is diverse, and our activities are gender and culture sensitive.

We follow our Safer Spaces principles in all our activities.

Girls’ Space is a safer space to be, grow and develop, and to receive encouragement, courage and room to be exactly as you are. Participation in Girls’ Space activities is completely free of charge.

Girls’ Space has been operating in Vantaa since 2013 and in Lappeenranta since 2017. Girls’ Space is politically and religiously unaffiliated.

Find out more about Girls’ Space in Vantaa here.
Find out more about Girls’ Space in Lappeenranta here.

Girls’ Spaces are funded by the Funding Centre for Social Welfare and Health Organisations (STEA).

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):

Does participation cost anything? No, it doesn’t. All our activities are free of charge.

Do I need to sign up for the groups? No, you don’t. Only trips require advance registration, and these are announced separately.

If I join the activity, do I have to attend the group every week? No, you don’t. You can come whenever it suits you.

Do I need to speak Finnish? No, you don’t. You are welcome to speak your own native language. Our instructors speak Finnish and English.

Girls and young women are welcome to Girls’ Space, taking gender sensitivity into account. What does that mean? Gender diversity includes different ways of being a girl, boy, woman, man, or something outside or between these categories. Gender can be permanent or changeable, visible or invisible, a private or community-based experience. At Girls’ Space, gender diversity is understood as part of human diversity. We respect each young person’s self-definition; everyone is welcome exactly as they are. The goal is to create space for each young person to be themselves and to grow into the life that suits them—regardless of gender, its expression, or associated norms.

More information:

Sanna Heikkinen, Manager of Girls’ Space

050 366 7994, sanna.heikkinen@nicehearts.com