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TouchBase Pears is open!

This month we are celebrating the opening of Sense’s TouchBase Pears.

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27th September 2017

We’re celebrating the opening this month of TouchBase Pears, a pioneering, multi-purpose centre in Selly Oak, Birmingham. Developed by deafblind charity Sense, the centre will operate as a social enterprise, with a focus on sustainability and being an inclusive space for everyone in the local community to use and enjoy. TouchBase Pears will be a national flagship service for Sense, offering a range of specialist services for people with sensory impairments or complex needs, as well as a community hub with a café, a sensory garden, conference and training facilities and an arts and performance area.

Fit for the future? The challenges facing Holocaust museums

This month we welcome our guest blogger Deputy CEO Sarah Coward from The National Holocaust Centre and Museum.

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Holocaust Memorial Day marked by Pears Partners

The UCL Centre for Holocaust Education welcomed survivors Ben Helfgott and Mala Tribich.

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International Development in Primary Schools

“Don’t know much about history, Don’t know much geography”

Shoshana Boyd Gelfand

International Women’s Day 2017: Women and Girls on the Autistic spectrum

On International Women’s Day 2017 we are highlighting the efforts addressing the gender imbalances in autism.

NHS Expo 2017: The Role of Young People in Improving Health and Transforming Care

Bridget attends NHS Expo 2017 to mark the launch of the first six NHS pilot sites funded through the Pears #iwill Fund.

Congratulations to Sir Trevor Pears for a Naz Legacy Foundation Award

Congratulations to our Executive Chair, Sir Trevor Pears for his Honorary Fellowship for Education from the Naz Legacy Foundation. Secretary…

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Northumbria Healthcare NHS are tackling loneliness with the Pears #iwill Fund

Launch of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s young volunteers programme

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The #iwill campaign launch 2017 National Youth Social Action Survey

The latest findings from Step Up to Serve’s #iwill campaign survey.

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Pears Scholars in the press

This blog features an article written by Susan Goodman for the Jerusalem Report, January 2018

£1 million to reduce the need for food banks

Pears Foundation is investing £1 million in a national programme to reduce the need for food banks.

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Youth Volunteering in Hospitals

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

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Ten Years on with The Trussell Trust’s Foodbank Network

We are pleased to welcome our guest blogger Chris Mould, who led the Trussell Trust for ten years as Chairman.

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Pears #iwill Fund: Increasing opportunities for young volunteers in NHS Trusts

We are excited to announce that we are now inviting targeted expressions of interest for funding.

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Young Carers Awareness Day 2017

Young Carers Awareness Day is a national day of recognition for the UK’s 700,000 young carers.

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Making progress towards eliminating blinding trachoma: a report on World Sight Day

To mark World Sight Day 2017 we welcome Dr Astrid Bonfield CBE as our guest blogger.

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Construction is underway at the Pears Mother and Babies Centre in Ghana

Afrikids has begun building work on the Pears Mother and Babies Centre in Nakwaabi.

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