Good Place to Live: New Beginnings Fund
Support your bid to the Good Place to Live: New Beginnings Fund with Outcomes Star
The Lloyds Bank Foundation’s Good Place to Live: New Beginnings Fund is focused on preventing homelessness before crisis happens. The fund supports organisations working with people at key life transitions, including those leaving prison, leaving care, fleeing domestic abuse, and moving on from the asylum system after securing leave to remain.
To be successful, organisations will need to demonstrate the difference they make, show how they support people to achieve long-term stability and wellbeing, and evidence how they learn and improve their services. Outcomes Star can help strengthen your application by providing a proven framework for measuring and demonstrating impact.
If you’re applying to the fund, here’s how Outcomes Star can support your bid.
Why using Outcomes Star can strengthen your application
Demonstrates the difference your service makes
One of the programme criteria focuses on how organisations evidence the difference they make and use that evidence to learn and improve.
Outcomes Star is a validated, person-centred outcomes framework that enables organisations to:
- Measure meaningful change in people’s lives
- Track progress over time
- Demonstrate outcomes rather than simply activities or outputs
- Understand what support is making the biggest difference
- Combine quantitative evidence with service-user experience
The Stars help organisations move beyond reporting how many people they supported to showing how people’s lives changed because of that support.
Supports person-centred and strengths-based practice
The New Beginnings Fund is seeking organisations that build trusted relationships, recognise people’s strengths and work alongside them to increase choice, control and opportunity.
Outcomes Star is completed collaboratively between a practitioner and the person receiving support. Rather than focusing solely on problems or deficits, it helps people identify where they are now, where they want to get to, and what steps will help them move forward.
This aligns closely with the fund’s emphasis on holistic, person-centred support delivered through long-term trusted relationships.
Helps evidence homelessness prevention
Many organisations supported through the New Beginnings Fund will be helping people navigate complex life changes that can increase the risk of homelessness.
These challenges often extend beyond housing and may include:
- Financial insecurity
- Poor mental or physical health
- Lack of support networks
- Reduced confidence and self-belief
- Experiences of trauma
- Limited access to education, training or employment
- Difficulties navigating systems and services
Outcomes Star enables organisations to measure progress across these interconnected areas and demonstrate how early intervention helps prevent homelessness before crisis point is reached.
Strengthens partnerships and referral pathways
Strong partnerships are central to effective homelessness prevention.
Outcomes Star can support partnership working by providing:
- A shared language for discussing progress and outcomes
- A consistent approach to measuring change
- Aggregated data across services and programmes
- Better understanding of local needs and trends
- Stronger evidence for service planning and commissioning
Using a common outcomes framework can help partners work together more effectively while maintaining a focus on individual needs and aspirations.
Supports learning and continuous imrovement
The fund is looking for organisations that use evidence to learn and strengthen their work.
Outcomes Star data can be used to:
- Monitor individual progress
- Identify trends across services
- Understand what interventions are most effective
- Inform service development
- Support reporting to funders and stakeholders
This helps organisations demonstrate a culture of reflection, learning and improvement.
Which Outcomes Sar is right for your service?
Selecting the right Outcomes Star shows that your approach to measuring impact is tailored to the people you support and the outcomes you are trying to achieve.
Home Star
Choose Home Star if your service:
- Supports people at risk of homelessness
- Works with people through significant life transitions
- Provides floating support, outreach or community-based services
- Delivers holistic support focused on multiple aspects of a person’s life
- Aims to build stability, resilience and independence
Home Star measures change across areas including:
- Accommodation and housing
- Money management
- Physical and emotional wellbeing
- Relationships and social connections
- Safety
- Meaningful use of time
- Life skills
- Trust and hope for the future
For many organisations applying to the New Beginnings Fund, Home Star will be the most suitable option because it reflects the broad and interconnected nature of homelessness prevention work.
The types of services that use Home Star include:
- Services supporting people leaving prison
- Domestic abuse support services
- Refugee and migrant support organisations
- Community-based homelessness prevention services
- Holistic support projects for people experiencing multiple disadvantage
Tenancy Star
Choose Tenancy Star if your service:
- Focuses primarily on helping people secure or sustain accommodation
- Delivers supported housing
- Provides tenancy sustainment services
- Supports resettlement into independent living
- Has housing stability as its primary outcome
Tenancy Star focuses more specifically on the factors involved in maintaining a successful tenancy, including:
- Housing
- Money and rent
- Looking after a home
- Health and wellbeing
- Positive use of time
- Community and contribution
This Star may be particularly appropriate for organisations where housing outcomes are the main focus of support.
The types of services that use Tenancy Star include:
- Supported housing providers
- Resettlement services
- Housing-led support projects
- Tenancy sustainment programmes
Young Person's Star
Choose Young Person’s Star if your service:
- Primarily supports young people aged 16-25
- Works with care-experienced young people
- Supports unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people
- Focuses on building confidence, independence and life skills
For organisations applying under the fund’s care-leaver focus area, Young Person’s Star may provide the closest fit to the needs and experiences of the young people being supported.
A simple rule of thumb
Preventing homelessness through holistic support? Choose Home Star.
Supporting people to manage and sustain housing? Choose Tenancy Star.
Working primarily with care-experienced young people? Consider Young Person’s Star.
Some organisations may use more than one Star across different services, creating a coherent outcomes framework that supports people from early intervention through to long-term stability and independence.
Examples of how to include Outcomes Star in your application
Here are some examples of how you might frame using the Outcomes Star in your application:
Demonstrating the difference we make:
We will use Outcomes Star as our core outcomes framework to measure and evidence the difference our work makes. Outcomes Star is a validated, person-centred tool that enables us to track progress over time across areas closely linked to homelessness prevention, including wellbeing, relationships, financial resilience, independence and housing stability.
Each person we support will complete a Star collaboratively with their key worker at agreed review points. This enables us to evidence meaningful change and demonstrate how our support helps people navigate key life transitions and build more stable futures.
Learning and improvement:
Outcomes Star will provide both individual and service-level data that we will use to monitor progress, identify trends and continuously improve our services. Alongside feedback from people we support and qualitative case studies, Star data will help us understand what is working well and where we can strengthen our approach.
Person-centred support
Outcomes Star supports our strengths-based practice by enabling people to identify their own goals, monitor their progress and recognise their achievements. The framework helps ensure support plans are built around what matters most to each individual, increasing confidence, choice and control.
Partnership working:
Where appropriate, we will use Outcomes Star as a shared outcomes framework with key partners. This will support a consistent approach to understanding progress, improve coordination between services and strengthen our collective ability to prevent homelessness.
Monitoring and evaluation:
Outcomes Star will underpin our monitoring and evaluation approach by providing structured evidence of change at both an individual and service level. The framework will enable us to demonstrate progress towards our intended outcomes, report on the impact of our work and use evidence to drive continuous improvement throughout the life of the programme.
How Outcomes Star can help organisations deliver the New Beginnings vision
The New Beginnings Fund recognises that homelessness is often preventable when people receive the right support at the right time. Outcomes Star helps organisations demonstrate that support is making a measurable difference by capturing progress across the factors that contribute to long-term stability, wellbeing and independence.
Whether you’re supporting someone leaving prison, rebuilding their life after domestic abuse, moving on from care, or establishing a new future after securing leave to remain, Outcomes Star provides a practical, proven way to evidence impact, strengthen learning and demonstrate how your work helps people achieve a good place to live.