QUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1198624 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are committed to creating greater accountability and encouraging more sustainable models of development by making health and wellbeing central to the way we create and care for our homes and neighbourhoods.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH CONDUCTING RESEARCH AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH, IN RELATION TO WITHOUT LIMITATION PLANNING, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF NEW AND EXISTING HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND THE IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT; AND2) TO SUPPORT HIGH STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICE IN PLANNING, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND MANAGEMENT IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT;IN WAYS WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.IN THESE OBJECTS, THE TERM “WELLBEING” RELATES TO HUMAN HEALTH AND MEANS PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING, AS SUCH TERM IS REFERRED TO IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (2006 EDITION).

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £11,209 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with unrestricted reserves falling to £43,077. Per the trustees' report, the charity is being wound down because it is financially unsustainable long-term following the cessation of major grant funding. The financial statements have been prepared on a break-up basis rather than a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (63% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID ROBERTSchair
• Richard Ford

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with British quality care foundation.

• British quality care foundation income £245k
• THE WELL OF LIFE income £54k
• TRANSFORMING LIVES income £62k
• THE LIFE INTERVENTION, FRIENDSHIP AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £37k
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• THE RIGHT TO LIFE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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