Pears Foundation

Research

We have funded or collaborated with many organisations to produce thought-provoking research. Our aims are to create space for reflection and new thinking, inform policy-making and improve practice in the areas we support.

Peace of Mind: Integrating mental health and psychosocial support in reconciliation and violence prevention programmes in Rwanda and Tajikistan
International Alert
2023
Listening to, and learning from, parents in the attendance crisis
Dr Sally Burtonshaw and Ed Dorrell
2023
1970s working conditions in the 2020s: Modernising the professional lives of teachers for the 21st Century
Education Support in partnership with Public First
2023
Foundation Giving Trends 2022
Association of Charitable Foundations
Front cover for Foundation Giving Trends Report including the logo for Pears Foundation, Association of Charitable Foundations and The Researchery.
2022
Continuity and Change: 10 years of teaching about the Holocaust in English Secondary Schools
UCL Centre for Holocaust Education
2023
Community Foundation Wales’s Trust and Foundation Project Report
New report finds that more support is needed for small grassroot community organisations in Wales
2022
The Power of Youth Volunteering
Learning from the Pears #iwill Fund NHS Network
2022
Adding value through volunteering in NHS Trusts
The Kings Fund
2022
How can a strategic approach to volunteering in NHS Trusts add value?
The Kings Fund
2022
The Cost of the School Day in England: Pupil's Perspectives
Child Poverty Action Group
2022
Citizenship and Integration Initiative
Key achievements
2022
Foundation Giving Trends 2021
Association of Charitable Foundations
2021
UK Covid relief and recovery grants
Data analysis
2021
Citizens of now
High-quality youth social action in primary schools
2021
The holy grail of funding
Why and how foundations give unrestricted funding
2021
Then There Was Silence
The impact of the Pandemic on Disabled Children, Young People and their Families
2021
ACF Foundation Giving Trends Update 2020
2020
Left Stranded:
The impact of coronavirus on autistic people and their families in the UK
2020
Giving voice to philanthropy
A report exploring renewal of the beacon celebration
2020
The Giving Experience: Overcoming the barriers to giving among the wealthy in the UK
2020
Collaborating for a cause
How cause-related networks multiply the impact of philanthropy
2020
Families who volunteer together: report on the state of family volunteering in the UK
2020
The links between family and volunteering: A review of the evidence
2019
UK Evaluation Roundtable Teaching Cases 2019
2019
Jewish Lives
A Longitudinal study to explore the changing Jewish lives of Jewish secondary school students and their families
2019
Trust for London
Citizenship and Integration Initiative Final Report
2019
Foundation Giving Trends 2019
2019
The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust
Collaborative, credible and catalytic?
2019
The Autism Act, 10 Years On
A report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism on understanding, services and support for autistic people and their families in England.
2019
How to recruit trustees for your charity
A practical guide by Getting on Board
2019
Autistica Impact Report
2019
Countryside Challenge
Final Evaluation Report
2018
A Whole School Approach to Mental Health
2018
Foundation Giving Trends 2018
2018
Trust for London
Citizenship and Integration Initiative Interim Report
2018
Coram
Investigating the Efficacy of Art and Music Therapy
2017
Association of Charitable Foundations
Foundation Giving Trends 2017
2017
Solid Management
The Perfect Fundraising Partnership
2017
Samaritans
Dying from inequality: Socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour
2017
UJIA
Jewish Lives: Longitudinal schools research.
2016
UJIA
Jewish Lives: Being a Young Jew in Britain
2016
Association of Charitable Foundation
Foundation Giving Trends 2016
2016
Education Endowment Foundation
Youth Social Action Trials: Youth United
2016
Buttle UK
Turning Points Economic Impact Assessment
2016
Girlguiding UK
Exploring the Impact of Girlguiding on Alumnae
2016
Buttle UK
Buttle UK Crisis Points Report
2016
VSO
The Role of Volunteering in Sustainable Development
2015
UCL Centre for Holocaust Education
What do Students Know and Understand about the Holocaust?
2015
Association of Charitable Foundations
Foundation Giving Trends 2015
2015
Girlguiding UK
Impact Research
2014
National Development Team for Inclusion
Youth Social Action Inclusion Scoping Study
2014
Trinity College, USA
National Demographic Survey of American Jewish College Students
2014
Education Endowment Foundation
Youth Social Action: Secondary Trial
2014
Giving Trends top 300 Foundations 2014
by Cathy Pharoah Keiran Goddard Richard Jenkins
2014
Family Foundations Giving Trends 2014
by Cathy Pharoah Keiran Goddard Richard Jenkins
the front page of the Family Foundations Giving Trends 2014 report.
2014
Institute for Jewish Policy Research
The National Jewish Community Survey
2013
Sikkuy
Representation of Arab citizens in the Institutions of Higher Education
2013
Makom
Moving Israel Education
2013
Royal Society of the Arts
Schools with Soul: A New Approach to Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Education
2013
Family Foundation Giving Trends 2012
by Cathy Pharoah Tom McKenzie Charles Keidan Nigel Siederer
image of the front page of the Family Foundations Giving Trends 2012 report.
2012
Cabinet Office
Evaluation of National Citizen Service
2012
Family Foundation Giving Trends 2011
by Cathy Pharoah with Charles Keidan and Jillian Gordon
image of the front page of the Family Foundations Giving Trends 2011 report.
2011
Demos
A Place for Pride
2011
Policy Exchange
Ties That Bind: How the story of Britain's Muslim soldiers can forge a national Identity
2011
Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and Institute for Jewish Policy Research
The National Jewish Student Survey
2011
Family Foundation Giving Trends 2010
by Cathy Pharoah with Charles Keidan
Duke of Edinburgh's Award
The Impact of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award on Young People
2010
Institute for Jewish Policy Research
The Attitudes of Jews in Britain towards Israel
2010
Jumpstart
Survey of New Jewish Initiatives in Europe
2010
Family Foundation Philanthropy 2009
Cathy Pharoah Author and editor
image of the front page of the Family Foundations Philanthropy report 2009.
2009
Tel Aviv University
The Rise and Fall of Israel's Bilateral Aid Budget - 1958- 2008
2009
UCL Centre for Holocaust Education
Teaching about the Holocaust in English Secondary Schools
2009
Family Foundation Philanthropy
Report on the giving of the largest charitable family foundations in the US, the UK and the rest of Europe 2008 by Cathy Pharoah
image of the front page of the Family Foundations Philanthropy report 2008.
2008
Lean On Me
Mentoring for young people at risk
2007