Let’s build a better
quality of life
together

We carry out research, engage communities, deliver services and influence policy so together we can create healthy homes and sustainable neighbourhoods.

About us

About the Quality of Life Foundation

We are a UK charity committed to improving people’s quality of life by changing the way the housing industry and government acquires, plans, designs, builds and manages homes and neighbourhoods.

In doing so, we contribute to residents and communities having a greater sense of control over what they value and need in their local area. And we support the creation of more healthy homes and socially, environmentally and economically sustainable neighbourhoods.

What we do

How can the Quality of Life Foundation help?

We carry out research to better understand what people need from their homes and neighbourhoods for them to be able to live healthy, happy lives, and to understand what can be done to make this a reality. We share our findings with community groups, policy makers and built environment professionals in the pursuit of creating healthy homes and sustainable neighbourhoods.

Through our trading subsidiary, we provide consultancy services to community groups, property developers, local authorities and housing associations to help them put health and wellbeing at the heart of the development process. Our trading subsidiary 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.

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Research
Sharing good practice
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Consultancy services

Framework

The Quality of Life Framework

The Quality of Life Framework brings together the Foundation’s research to identify how the built environment impacts on people’s quality of life. It identifies six key themes that address improvements that can be made to ensure that our homes and neighbourhoods actively provide a better quality of life for everyone.

Projects

Projects we’re proud of

With our partners, we’ve worked on an array of projects aimed at putting health and wellbeing at the heart of how we create and care for homes and neighbourhoods. These run the course of the housing development cycle, from strategic land use to post-occupancy evaluation (asking people what they think and feel about where they live).

  • 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

Join Us

Join our growing team

Changing the UK housing system will not be easy, and it will take time. But we are excited by the challenge and look forward to working with more like-minded individuals and organisations in the years ahead. You can join us on our mission in a number of ways.

Become a Partner

Become an Assosciate

Work with us

Use our services

News and events

What we’ve been up to
News

March 11, 2024

The social impact of build-to-rent developments: kicking off new research

Press

February 22, 2024

Street votes: A breakthrough in local democracy or a red herring?

Press

February 06, 2024

Maximising the benefits of biodiversity net gain requires a community-centric approach

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Quality of Life Foundation,

c/o dRMM, 148 Tooley Street,

London, SE1 2TU

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Contact

Send us a message

Quality of Life Foundation,

c/o dRMM, 148 Tooley Street,

London, SE1 2TU