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.

Beneath the fracturing: British values in the age of division
Public First
2026
Teaching about the British Empire, migration, and belonging
University of Oxford and the UCL Institute of Education
2026
Teaching and learning about the Holocaust 80 years on: A study of student knowledge and understanding in England
UCL Centre for Holocaust Education
2026
Dissenting Disruptors
A deep dive into one of the British Seven segments by More in Common UK
2026
UKGrantmaking 2026
Grant funding in the UK 2024-25
2026
Commission into Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools
2026 Insights
2026
The experience of Jewish Global Development and Aid Practitioners
OLAM
2025
This Place Matters: Re-imagining community cohesion in Britain
UCL Policy Lab, More in Common, Citizens UK
2025
After Choosing Sides: Britain's changing views on the Israel-Palestine conflict
More in Common UK
2025
Progressive Activists
A deep dive into one of the British Seven segments by More in Common UK
2025
Citizenship & Integration Initiative
Final report: learning from a pooled fund to support work on citizenship and integration in London
2025
UKGrantmaking 2025
Grant funding in the UK 2023-24
2025
Transforming Education - Northern Ireland
Integrated Education Fund
2024
Commission into Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools
Initial findings and recommendations
2024
UKGrantmaking 2024
Data and insights from 2022-23
2024
More than Choosing Sides
More in Common's report into how Britons are navigating the Israel-Palestine conflict
2023
Peace of Mind
International Alert's research into the role of mental health in peacebuilding
2023
1970s working conditions in the 2020s: Findings of the Commission on Teacher Retention
Education Support
2023
Continuity and Change: 10 years of teaching about the Holocaust in English Secondary Schools
UCL Centre for Holocaust Education's 10 year impact report
2023
Foundation Giving Trends 2022
Front cover for Foundation Giving Trends Report including the logo for Pears Foundation, Association of Charitable Foundations and The Researchery.
2022
Trust and Foundation Project Report
Community Foundation 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: Pupils' Perspectives
Child Poverty Action Group
2022
Citizenship and Integration Initiative
Learning from a pooled fund to support work on citizenship and integration in London
2022
Foundation Giving Trends 2021
2021
UK Covid Relief and Recovery Grants
Data analysis by 360Giving
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
Impact Research
Girlguiding UK
2014
Youth Social Action Inclusion Scoping Study
National Development Team for Inclusion
2014
Youth Social Action: Secondary Trial
Education Endowment Foundation
2014
Giving Trends top 300 Foundations 2014
2014
Family Foundations Giving Trends 2014
the front page of the Family Foundations Giving Trends 2014 report.
2014
The National Jewish Community Survey
JPR
2013
Representation of Arab citizens in the Institutions of Higher Education
Sikkuy
2013
Schools with Soul: A New Approach to Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Education
RSA
2013
Family Foundation Giving Trends 2012
image of the front page of the Family Foundations Giving Trends 2012 report.
2012
Evaluation of the National Citizen Service
2012
Family Foundation Giving Trends 2011
image of the front page of the Family Foundations Giving Trends 2011 report.
2011
A Place for Pride
Demos
2011
The National Jewish Student Survey
JPR and UJS
2011
Family Foundation Giving Trends 2010
2000
The Impact of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award on Young People
2010
The Attitudes of Jews in Britain towards Israel
JPR
2010
The Rise and Fall of Israel's Bilateral Aid Budget: 1958- 2008
Tel Aviv University
2009
Teaching about the Holocaust in English Secondary Schools
UCL Institute of Education
2009
Family Foundation Philanthropy 2009
image of the front page of the Family Foundations Philanthropy report 2008.
2008
Lean On Me: Mentoring for young people at risk
NPC
2007