Quality of Life Survey of Berwick on Tweed!

In summary the majority of people in Berwick consider the town to be safe with a degree of interest for visitors, however the facilities within the town are out of date, failing to support the needs of residents both young and old. The town needs an injection of get up and go to wake it up to the 21st century!

Introduction 

The group from E2E decided to do a survey around Berwick Upon Tweed to find out what the town really thought of itself and its surroundings. There was five people involved; David, Matty, Jon James (JJ), Graeme and Gaileah. 

We done a total of 43 survey’s that consisted of 12 deeply thought of questions about Berwick and also we asked 3 questions that where slightly personal but we didn’t give the persons identity away so they where willing to give us the information. 

The questions used were thought about so we could retrieve information about how people feel about Berwick and the people involved in it. They where things like what do you think about Berwick’s tourism, and various things like that and the final question was what would you like to see change in Berwick?

 Methodology 

The group decided to prepare a survey that would include questions that would be quantatitive and qualatitive about Berwick and the opportunities it has to offer for the public. Questions such as; do you enjoy living in Berwick? Are the shops good enough? These questions were discussed and we decided that they should be used as they were relevant to our survey.

We had now put the survey together; however, we noticed we had a few mistakes in the questions and some grammatical errors. As a group we corrected these mistakes and printed out our complete survey ready to go.

As we now had a compete survey we decided to do some practice surveys within the group. This was done to get the surveyors the right technique rather than go up to an elderly person at full speed and press the survey onto her/him. It also provided a chance for the group to work as a team.

We were now going to go out and conduct our survey but as a group of five we decided to split into two groups; one of two and one of three because it doesn’t take five people to survey one person. We carried out a total of forty-three surveys to different age groups to get a representative total of Berwick and areas around Berwick.

To View the Questionaire go to this Link Appendix I; The Survey Question Sheet

Survey Analysis

To View the Statistical Results go to this Link Appendix II; Berwick Survey Stats

Survey in Berwick on Tweed of 43 persons of which 55.8% where female (24) 44.2% male over an age range of 16 to over 50 (See table) of which the highest proportion were 16-19 (35%) the lowest was 30-39 (5%)

It was found that 65% of people surveyed came from Berwick, 16% from the Scottish Borders and 19% were from rural Northumberland

65% of people surveyed used the internet

In Berwick people who live in Berwick, 37.2% said yes to enjoy living in Berwick where as a staggering 53.5% said that they don’t enjoy living in Berwick.

 In a question where it was asked “do the shops satisfy your needs 46.5% said yes where as 48.8% said no to the shops in Berwick being satisfying.

Tourism in Berwick is quite a big thing and people in Berwick 67.4% which is 29 out of 43 votes say that Berwick is good for tourism.

he younger generation is a big issue in Berwick as many people claim that there isn’t enough for they youth of today but in the survey it says that there is because 53.3% have said yes there is enough for the youth where as 46.5% have said that there is not enough things to do if you are considered a youth. 

Have you ever walked the town walls was an interesting question and there was some people who actually said they did not know if they had walked the walls in actual fact it was 4.7% of people said they didn’t know where as 37.2% have said they have never walked the walls before and a huge 58.1% said they have walked the walls before. 

The biggest shock in the questionnaire was how man people knew who the mayor of Berwick was only 9 out of 43 people knew who she was where as there was a 76.7% of people who didn’t know who she was.

 The bus fair has always been discussed in Berwick because of the increase in the price and out of 43 people 31 said that the bus fair was “dear” which is 72.1% out of 100% then it was 16.3% saying it was fair and 11.6% said it was cheap.

53.5 % of people have said that they enjoy going out in Berwick even though 53.5% said that they don’t like living in Berwick where as 37.2% said they don’t enjoy going out in Berwick and 9.3% don’t know

 44.2% of people have stated that they feel safe in Berwick where 32.2% have said that they don’t feel safe and amazingly 23.2% have said that they don’t know 

The final question was all about the beaches in Berwick and they had the choice of saying it was weather it is good, fair or poor. 32.6% said that the beaches are good where 39.5% have said that it is fair and 27.9% have said that is a poor beach. 

Conclusion

Most people who live in Berwick think it’s good for the people that are coming into Berwick as tourists but not for the people who are actually living there.

Most people in Berwick would like to see the whole town refurbished because it doesn’t have many things to do to get teenagers involved.

Quite a lot of people don’t like living in Berwick but enjoy going out in Berwick because it has a good night life such as the local pubs about the town and the two clubs which are Bedrocks and Cashmere

Most people who use the buses think that they are too expensive, the public would benefit greatly if all the bus prices where lowered.

Also the survey shows that most people are not getting enough out of Berwick, in the survey people in Berwick would like the shops in Berwick to be improved because the quality of the shops are quite poor, most men are basically crying out for another sport shop because Berwick only have one and also they would like to have some more men’s clothing because really there is Burtons and Jimmy Graham’s but his prices are really high.

Tourism in Berwick is a real high point because every year there is people all over the country, and more coming to Berwick to experience the much talked about walls, and other historical things that has happened in Berwick. This is a very good thing for shops and other various things that cost because they can make more money say in the summer than in the winter because more and more people are coming to Berwick in the summer.

In the survey we asked if there was enough to do for the younger generation in Berwick. More people said yes but in the last question which was; if you could do anything to Berwick what would it be and most people said; they would improve Berwick by putting more activities for the youth.

In the survey people said that Berwick’s beaches were fair the other two options were good or poor, 17 people said that the beaches were fair were 14 told us it was good and 12 people told us that they thought the beaches in Berwick are poor. 

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