Pears Foundation

The partnership is the first major UK-wide funding collaboration dedicated to tackling child poverty.

Two national programmes will provide teachers and school leaders across England with new training and resources to protect pupils and strengthen critical thinking in the digital age.

Residents of Kent and Medway who need help to manage a mental health crisis will now be able to find that support at a 24/7 crisis and recovery house.

With our partners at Public First and STAR Academies we carried out the biggest ever study into online conspiracy theories and misinformation in English schools, including teachers, parents and young people across the country. Our findings make sobering reading. Online conspiracy, misinformation and disinformation are rife in our classrooms and teachers lack the tools and confidence to address it.

Each year the Foundation’s trustees identify a number of small, community-based organisations to receive a surprise seasonal boost of unrestricted funding.

360 Giving launch a new interactive platform, with the support of Pears Foundation, to provide an overview of grantmaking in the UK.

The Commission on Countering Online Conspiracy in Schools will explore how online conspiracy theories, as well as misinformation and disinformation, are manifesting in the classroom. 

Each year the Foundation’s trustees identify a number of small, community-based organisations to receive a surprise seasonal boost of unrestricted funding.

Imperial College London and the University of Cumbria, with philanthropic support from Pears Foundation, have come together to create the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine.

The building is named after Clarice Pears, mother of the Pears Foundation’s three founders and trustees and the Foundation contributed  £5 million towards its construction.  

The Pears Jewish Centre will transform Jewish life in Berlin.

The fund aims to ensure that as many vital youth services as possible are able to keep the lights on and support young people in their local community.

Each year the Foundation’s trustees identify a number of small, community-based organisations to receive a surprise seasonal boost of unrestricted funding.

The launch of a new report from the Institute of Voluntary Action Research into the power of youth volunteering in NHS Trusts

Pears Foundation is delighted to announce the launch today of two new reports by the King’s Fund on Volunteering in NHS Trusts.