Better funding starts with better conversations
Help the organisations you fund deliver meaningful change while generating robust evidence of impact. Outcomes Star combines outcomes measurement with a proven approach to supporting change, helping organisations improve outcomes while giving funders a clearer picture of the difference their investment is making.
Why funders choose Outcomes Star
- Fund services that deliver meaningful change
Support organisations to embed person-centred and strengths-based approaches that help people make lasting progress
- Gain credible evidence of impact
Move beyond activity reporting to understand how people’s lives are changing with your investment
- Build learning into funding
Generate insights that help grantees improve practice and help funders understand what works
- Create a shared outcomes framework
Provide consistency across multiple funded organisations while allowing flexibility in service delivery
Understand the difference your funding makes
Funders are often asked to assess impact through reports showing activities delivered, services provided and people reached.
Outcomes Star helps you go further, providing meaningful evidence about how people’s lives are changing and the progress they are making over time.
By capturing outcomes that matter to the people receiving support, the Star helps funders understand where progress is strongest, identify emerging needs and build a clearer picture of the difference their funding is making.
- See what changed
Move beyond outputs and activity reporting to understand how people’s lives are changing with your investment. The Outcomes Star helps reveal the progress people are making across the areas that matter most to them.
- Identify trends and patterns
Explore outcomes across services, programmes and populations to understand where progress is strongest, who is benefiting most and where additional support may be needed.
- Demonstrate impact with confidence
Generate meaningful outcomes evidence that helps you report to boards, stakeholders and funding partners, while evidencing the value of your investment.
- Inform future funding decisions
Use outcomes data and learning to evaluate programmes over time, identify emerging needs and make more informed decisions about future funding and investment.
More than measurement
Unlike traditional outcome measures that simply record progress, the Outcomes Star is designed to support change as well as measure it.
Because outcomes measurement is integrated into support planning and review conversations, practitioners collect meaningful outcomes information as part of good practice rather than as an additional reporting requirement. This increases engagement while improving the quality and consistency of the data collected.
Supports meaningful conversations
Encourages goal-setting and reflection
Strengthens relationships
Creates clearer support plans
Produces richer outcomes evidence
Why Funded Organisations Value the Outcomes Star
The organisations you fund value the Outcomes Star because it helps them deliver better support while generating meaningful outcomes data.
- Person-centred practice
Practitioners work alongside people to recognise strengths, understand where they are in their journey and identify the changes that matter most to them.
- Part of the support, not more paperwork
Outcomes measurement is built into support conversations, making it relevant and useful for practitioners and participants alike.
- Better evidence
Organisations can demonstrate the difference they make while using outcomes information to reflect on and improve their services.
- Greater engagement
When practitioners value the approach, data quality improves and funders gain greater confidence in the information they receive.
Used across a wide range of services
The Outcomes Star has been developed with practitioners, validated through research and used across a wide range of services supporting children, young people and adults.
Housing and homelessness, mental health and wellbeing, families and children, employment and skills, domestic abuse, criminal justice, disability support and community services are just some of the sectors using the Outcomes Star to support meaningful change and measure outcomes consistently.
Funding Programmes and Portfolio Learning
Good funding is about learning as well as accountability.
Whether you’re funding a single organisation or a large-scale programme, the Outcomes Star can provide a shared outcomes framework across your portfolio, helping you understand collective impact while supporting learning and improvement.
- Common framework
Adopt a consistent approach to outcomes measurement across multiple funded organisations
- Shared learning
Compare insights and learning across projects while recognising different models of support
- Porfolio impact
Understand aggregate outcomes, identify trends and demonstrate programme-level impact
- Connected systems
Our online platform and API support secure data sharing and integration with existing software systems
Let's talk about impact
Whether you’re funding a single organisation, a portfolio of projects or a large-scale programme, we can help you explore how the Outcomes Star can strengthen impact measurement and support meaningful change.
Interested in a workshop for your grant managers, funding teams or commissioners? Looking at discounts for funded organisations? We’d love to talk.