QOLF Consulting

 

We enable better decision making about planning and design, social impact and stewardship.

What is QOLF Consulting?

QOLF Consulting is a social impact consultancy for the built environment. We help developers, housing associations, councils and others make confident, evidence-backed decisions about the places they plan, design and manage – improving outcomes for people and for place.

We bring together the people who matter – from investors to residents – to support better decisions around housing, development and long-term stewardship. Our approach ensures that every decision is grounded in evidence and focused on creating long-term social impact.

We offer strategic advice, impact evaluations, training and thought leadership to improve decision making at every stage, from early visioning and masterplanning through to post-occupancy and stewardship.

Why social impact matters

Creating high-quality places requires more than compliance. It means understanding how design, investment and engagement decisions affect long-term wellbeing, equity and opportunity.

We help clients ask and answer the right questions, including:

  • Are we doing enough to improve long-term social impact and community wellbeing?
  • Are we focusing investment where it will have the greatest impact?
  • Are we building the trust needed to reduce risk and gain community support?
  • Are we ready to make the case to planners, funders and political stakeholders?

By linking decisions to health and wellbeing outcomes, our work reduces uncertainty and increases impact. We help you shape places that stand up to scrutiny and deliver long-term value.

Our consultancy services

We support you to make better decisions. We work across a wide range of challenges – from making the case for investment to unlocking planning, reducing resident pushback, and improving long-term outcomes.

Whether you’re developing a new masterplan, refining an engagement strategy or evaluating a regeneration programme, we provide an independent, impact-focused view on what will work best for communities and for your organisation.

Our consultancy services include:

  • Strategies – shaping and strengthening your approach to social impact, place and wellbeing
  • Evaluations – assessing social impact, outcomes and identifying where to focus resources
  • Training and workshops – building internal capability to deliver social impact, putting health and wellbeing outcomes at the heart of how you work
  • Thought leadership – generating insight and foresight to influence policy and practice

As a consultancy that’s part of a charity, we offer a different kind of partnership. Our independence and purpose-driven model mean we reinvest in new tools, research and collaborations that benefit our clients and the wider sector.

A team built for impact

QOLF Consulting brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers, designers, community engagement specialists and built environment professionals. Our team combines decades of experience with a clear-eyed, practical ethos: collaborative, challenging and committed to making a difference.

Whether you’re looking to increase social impact, secure buy-in, unlock investment or simply make better decisions, we help you make decisions that work better for people and for place.

The team is ready and raring to work with you.

Completed projects

  • Systems thinking workshop: East Sussex food environments

  • Post-occupancy evaluation: Redrow

  • 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)

  • Quality of life mapping: Harlow and Gilston Garden Town

  • Post-occupancy evaluation: Great Kneighton

  • Post-occupancy evaluation: Houlton, Alconbury Weald and Priors Hall Park

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

Contact

Send us a message

0204 548 3866

Quality of Life Foundation,

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

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Contact

Send us a message

0204 548 3866

Quality of Life Foundation,

C/O Better Space,

127 Farringdon Rd,

London EC1R 3DA