What we do

The Quality of Life Foundation helps communities and organisations to plan, design, create and care for homes and neighbourhoods in ways that will benefit people’s quality of life in the long term.

We do this by carrying out independent research, engaging communities, sharing evidence, and supporting others to implement best practice in their work.

For example we’ve:

  • been involved in a large-scale research project with the universities of Reading, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Ulster, setting up urban rooms to test community engagement methods
  • carried out extensive community engagement and layered the findings with existing data to create a social value map for Harlow and Gilston Garden Town
  • run post-occupancy evaluations focused on quality of life at developments up and down the country for clients such as Urban&Civic and Countryside
  • been working with Clarion Housing Association to refine and test their Neighbourhood Standard
  • worked as part of the Better Planning Coalition to ensure that matters of health and wellbeing are considered in relation to national planning policy
  • developed case studies and reports, and hosted roundtables and discussions, to share best practice across the industry.

We do all this because we know that having a decent, affordable home in a safe, well-designed neighbourhood is the foundation of a happy, healthy life.

We are a charity and provide services through our trading subsidiary (which is wholly owned by the charity).

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Research

We undertake research and share our findings with community groups, policy makers and built environment professionals in the pursuit of creating healthy homes and sustainable neighbourhoods.

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Sharing good practice

We publish good practice case studies to help you put health and wellbeing at the centre of how you create and care for homes. Take a look through our library to find inspiration for your work.

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Consultancy services

We offer consultancy services that cover the whole life of the development process. Our services help you to put health and wellbeing at the centre of the way you create and care for homes and neighbourhoods.