Our services

We drive the insights behind better decision-making, helping you create a lasting positive impact on people’s lives.

Every project is unique, with specific decisions to be made.

We assemble a bespoke team of consultants – specialists in data, community engagement, and urban design – to provide deep, actionable insights that weigh sometimes competing priorities and help you to make the decisions that will improve people’s lives.

There are three core pillars to our work:

  1. Capturing lived experience: We proactively translate communities’ localised experience into trusted, rigorous evidence to define priorities for local decision-making.
  2. Developing actionable solutions: We develop and share actionable tools, frameworks, and governance models to empower the built environment sector to deliver measurable improvements in health and wellbeing.
  3. Driving systemic change: We guide decision-makers and government leaders to adopt this evidence, ensuring resources and policy are targeted to close the health inequality gap.
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What we do

Building on our foundation of deep research, we provide evidence-backed strategic support at every stage of the property lifecycle.

  • Strategies: We shape future pathways that integrate social impact and environmental stewardship into the core of every project. And by prioritising health and wellbeing at a corporate, contractor, and community level, you are creating the best conditions to affect change in your work.
  • Evaluations: Using our proven methodology to assess wellbeing and resident experience, identifying where to focus resources for the greatest impact and return.
  • Thought leadership: Generating the foresight needed to help organisations stay ahead of policy shifts and demographic trends, ensuring the homes of today are fit for the residents of tomorrow.

The power of you

Every organisation and individual involved in the built environment has a role to play in improving lives. Whatever your role, you can become a champion for health and wellbeing.

  • Finance: Protect asset value and secure long-term yields by meeting the new gold standard for institutional investment.
  • Procurement: Move beyond the lowest-bidder model to procure for total value and long-term economic productivity.
  • Design and build: Create neighbourhoods where people want to stay and invest their lives by treating social infrastructure as the ultimate amenity.
  • Stewardship: Transition from property management to community activation, creating self-sustaining ecosystems that appreciate in value.

By aligning these interests, we ensure that social value is not just a checkbox exercise, but a fundamental strategy for creating resilient, high-performing places that benefit residents and providers alike.

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Completed projects

  • Assessing the social impact of build-to-rent development

  • Urban&Civic Resident Review: Returning to measure change

  • Money MOT impact evaluation

  • Systems thinking workshop: East Sussex food environments

  • Post-occupancy evaluation: Redrow

  • Sponsored research: Building health equity

  • Research and policy recommendations: Empowering healthy neighbourhoods

  • A quality of life monitoring strategy for Harlow and Gilston Garden Town

  • Post-occupancy evaluation: Clarion Housing’s 2050 Neighbourhood Standard

  • Community Consultation for Quality of Life (CCQOL)

Testimonials

“We have enjoyed working with the Quality of Life Foundation and found the team to be collaborative and thorough in their approach, seeking to understand what we wanted to achieve from our post-occupancy research and developing a methodology to deliver this.  We particularly valued their commitment to capturing independently the genuine lived experience of residents living in our completed developments and the findings will be very useful to us in reflecting and refining our approach to placemaking and the delivery of our new communities.”

Rose Sandell, Group Communities Director

Redrow

“We really enjoyed working with the Quality of Life Foundation on this groundbreaking research into the social impact of build-to-rent developments. Their independence, credibility, and hands-on experience with residents made them an invaluable partner.”

Theo Plowman

British Property Federation

“The Quality of Life Foundation has been an invaluable partner in our most recent project. Their expertise and professionalism have consistently exceeded our expectations. The team’s ability to deliver high-quality research and insightful stakeholder engagement (including leading workshops with key stakeholders), all while adhering to deadlines, has significantly enriched our learning throughout this piece of work. We highly recommend the Quality of Life Foundation for their dedication, thoroughness and outstanding work.”

Local Government Association

“The Quality of Life Foundation’s expertise in research and engagement helped us test our framework and develop a suite of tools built upon what we already do well. It’s been a pleasure to work so closely with such passionate individuals and organisation.”

Clarion Housing

“We have found working with the Quality of Life Foundation beneficial for all our teams – and most importantly our residents. Quality of Life Foundation has delivered two post-occupation evaluation studies for us and the output has been great to help us learn and improve – sharing the outcomes and best practice through CPD events has also enabled us to improve knowledge across the company.”

Andrew Taylor

Group Planning and Communities Director at Vistry Group

“We would absolutely recommend working with the Quality of Life Foundation. Besides being very good at what it does, the Quality of Life Foundation is leading from the front in ensuring that wellbeing and community engagement are central to the development process.”

Clare Richards,

Founding Director, Footwork

“We would recommend working with the Quality of Life Foundation. Their insight and application of their framework was key to us evolving our data-led approach to understanding communities and the interventions they needed.”

Andy Porter,

Head of Innovation and Technical Services at Stantec

“The Quality of Life Foundation provided expertise and insight into inclusive local community engagement, analysis of qualitative and mapped social value data, and supported us to translate the findings into recommendations and actions to take forward as a partnership of local authorities.”

Ione Braddick,

Harlow and Gilston Garden Town Placeshaping and Engagement Lead

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Quality of Life Futures,

C/O Better Space,
127 Farringdon Rd,
London EC1R 3DA.

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Quality of Life Foundation,

C/O Better Space,

127 Farringdon Rd,

London EC1R 3DA