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All reports published by East End Quality of Life Initiative can be found on this page. All files are in pdf format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files.

Community Assembly East (Arbourthorne, Darnall, Manor Castle and Richmond Wards) - health effects of inequalities and air pollution, air quality, some health trends, and Sheffield Neighbourhoods Information System (SNIS). April 2009

Updated community air quality and health trends with a summary of the health effects of air pollution, for the following areas:

Community air pollution monitoring measuring nitrogen dioxide using diffusion tubes, August 2007, joint report by Andrew Elleker, Sheffield City Council Environmental Strategy, and Neil Parry and Barbara Rimmington, EEQOL

Tinsley Neighbourhood Quality of Life Trends 2000-2007 (September 2007) illustrates in graph form responses from Tinsley residents about quality of life issues in the area over the period.

Using Sheffield PCT's Interactive Health Atlas, neighbourhood health trends have been collated and compared to Sheffield overall in graph form. The following clusters can be downloaded here:

Darnall, Acres Hill, Housteads, Tinsley and Handsworth (August 2007)
Burngreave, Firvale, Abbeyfield, Woodside and Firshill (September 2007)
Foxhill, Hillsborough and Middlewood (October 2007)
City Centre, Park Hill and Netherthorpe (October 2007)
Greenhill, Totley and Bents Green (October 2007)
Heeley, Sharrow, Millhouses and Nether Edge (October 2007)
Broomhall, Broomhill, Crookes, Crookesmoor and Crosspool (October 2007)
Loxley, Worrall, Wadsley and Wisewood (October 2007)
Firth Park, Flower, Stubbin / Brushes and Shiregreen (October 2007)

Tinsley Forum co-ordinated a survey of quality of life and employment issues during 2006-07. The questionnaire was developed by a number of organisations working in the area. It covered a wide range of issues, with different parts of the questionnaire aimed at different age- or interest groups within Tinsley. Overall, 253 people took part. Reports available for download - full report of overall responses, report for Tinsley Sure Start (families with children aged 0-5), report for families with older children (aged 12 and over), report for older people, and executive summaries of all the reports.

Research and evaluation for community and voluntary sector groups in Sheffield, April 2007

Darnall learning and employment survey, October 2006

Air pollution and noise - their effects on human health and social inclusion: a review of recent literature, revised January 2006 (Executive Summary and Full Report)

Tinsley Forum/Tinsley One Stop Shop Survey, October 2005, looking at participation in courses and training

A survey of employers in the S9 postcode area was carried out in 2005. This was a joint project undertaken with Sheffield City Council's Darnall Area Panel and Adult & Community Learning Unit.

Understanding local neighbourhoods using community researchers, February 2005

Selected data from the 2001 Census have been collated into booklets based on geographical area:

Jobs and Training: a summary of surveys carried out in the Darnall Action Area, Sheffield, November 2004

Gambling, health and economic regeneration: a literature review, October 2004

Building on data collected since 1997, EEQOL has been developing Quality of Life Indicators (see Developing Locally Agreed Quality of Life Indicators: the example of the Darnall Action Area, Sheffield).

Monitoring trends in Quality of Life Indicators

The data was collected in the following surveys:

205 people, mostly women, took part in the Tinsley Sure Start User Satisfaction Survey during June-September 2004.
A survey of tenants and residents in Darnall on behalf of a group of 6 social landlords was undertaken during July-October 2003. The survey aimed to gather information on a range of social, environmental, economic and health issues, and to encourage local residents to get more involved in the running of the area.
A small survey of residents in the Kettlebridge area was undertaken during June-August 2002. This survey was mainly to find out how residents wanted to see some areas of derelict land used, but also asked about some of the quality of life issues covered in other surveys.
During February-March 2002 a small pilot survey was carried out in Darnall, Tinsley and Handsworth to test questions on a wide range of quality of life issues.
A survey of families with young children in Tinsley was undertaken during May-July 2001 to support TPCC's bid to bring Sure Start to Tinsley. This survey mainly asked about services used by pregnant women and families with young children, but also included a few questions about quality of life issues.
A postal survey was carried out in November-December 2000, as part of a Health Impact Assessment of the Rotherham Sheffield Motorway Corridor Planning Study. A representative sample of 1500 people was contacted, from which 465 replies were obtained. A range of self-assessed health questions were included, as well as questions about how Objective One funding should be used to regenerate the area.

A survey of tenants and residents, mainly in the Staniforth Road/Kashmir Gardens/Kettlebridge area of Darnall was undertaken during July-October 2003 on behalf of the Darnall CTE project, a group of 6 social landlords. Both the summary and the full report are available here.

There have been a number of studies published during 2001-02 regarding children's health and the environment, asthma in children, health impact assessment of air pollution, and the effects of noise on health. These are summarised in a report Recently published research on health and environment.

Developing Locally Agreed Quality of Life Indicators: the example of the Darnall Action Area, Sheffield reflects on the process of developing quality of life indicators (January 2003)

Based on DETR's Local Quality of Life counts: a handbook, the East End Quality of Life Initiative investigated the availability of baseline data for the government's suggested indicators. These can be found in Quality of Life Indicators: summary of data available for the Darnall Action Area (December 2001)

Quality of Life Indicators: survey of the Darnall Action Area October-November 2001 gives the results of a survey of local residents. They were asked what they felt should be measured to show how quality of life in the area was changing. A summary is available (91KB pdf file) as well as the full report.

Health Impact Assessment of the Rotherham Sheffield Motorway Corridor Planning Study (January 2001). EEQOL looked at the possible health impacts of a study commissioned jointly by Rotherham and Sheffield planning authorities to devise an investment strategy for one of the three Strategic Economic Zones within South Yorkshire's Objective One programme.

The Darnall Environment and Health Audit (2001) was produced jointly by Sheffield Health and Sheffield City Council's Environmental Protection Service in response to community concerns regarding the state of the local environment and its affect on health. A summary is available (171KB pdf file) as well as the full report.

In order to find out local residents' views on proposals to regenerate the area as part of a Strategic Economic Zone within South Yorkshire’s Objective One programme, the East End Quality of Life Initiative carried out a postal survey in the Darnall Action Area (Darnall, Handsworth and Tinsley. The summary report, published in February 2001, is available here.

Darnall Community Research (August 2000) details the results of one-to-one interviews with local residents. Using local community researchers, the survey aimed to discover what environmental issues were of concern to local people, and how they affected their health and quality of life.