Good Life Camden
A shared framework for understanding and improving wellbeing in Camden.
Our ambition
We want everyone in Camden to live a good life.
That’s why we set out to understand what’s important to people living and working here today, what matters for their wellbeing and what enables them to thrive.
The Good Life Camden framework was co-produced with residents who told us what matters the most to them.
It helps us to understand how people in Camden are doing and to answer the important question: is life getting better for people?
We want to work with local partners like you to embed the framework across the borough.
Read on to find out how to get involved and dig into our resources!
The Good Life Camden Framework
The framework is organised into nine themes based on what people told us is essential for a good life.
There are three are core themes that cut across everything:
- Safety
- Equality and
- Health
The other themes are:
- Housing
- Income and affordability
- Life-long learning
- Social connections & community
- Environment and
- Empowered citizenship
For each theme we’ve identified:
- Signals: signs we expect to see if we’re making a positive difference
- Measures: data we can use to track change and compare our results over time
Good Life Camden data will be published in the annual State of the Borough report and will be used to understand how our We Make Camden Missions and Challenges are having an impact on people’s lives.
What people are saying about Good Life Camden
Good Life Camden has helped local partners and council staff to:
- “Frame a conversation with residents and focus on what is important to them.”
- “Help assess the impact of co-production. The framework was really easy to use, both from a staff and resident perspective – especially with the user guide and question bank. It was easily adapted to suit the needs of our project, and the team were amazing at helping to find workarounds where it didn’t.’
- “Think about better outcomes for residents and take a more active role in reducing inequality.”
- “Improved our understanding of community needs and built a robust evaluation process which will help us to measure our impact and support future funding bids.”
The Good Life Camden Community of Practice
This is a group of local partner organisations who work together to implement Good Life Camden to:
- Identify the themes their work contributes to
- Address common challenges including measuring your social impact and project evaluation.
- Collaborate on projects and learning
- Gather data through surveys and evaluations
- Feed into the State of the Borough report
To join the Community of Practice email us at Goodlifecamden@camden.gov.uk
Resources and tools
- Good Life Camden Themes, Signals and Measures this full Good Life Camden framework based on what residents told us they need to live a good life
- Good Life Camden brochure 2024: how we developed the framework, the themes and signals, and how it’s been used
- Good Life Camden Question Bank this is a set of questions that correspond to the Good Life Camden themes and signals. They can be used in project evaluations or to monitor changes in an area or population
- Guide to using the Good Life Camden Question Bank and Creating a Survey this guide has useful information to support you to use the question bank, put your survey together and analyse the results.
- What does it mean to live a good life in Camden? This blog post explores how data helped us to understand the realities that residents experience.
- What makes a good life in Camden? This blog post describes the Good Life Camden co-production process with residents and how their lived experiences shaped the framework.
Get in touch
Get in touch at GoodLifeCamden@camden.gov.uk to discuss how your organisation can use the framework.
