Pears Foundation

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

As part of Volunteering Week 2017 we are sharing our pledge and commitment to youth social action.

The Trussell Trust’s latest figures show an 18.8% increase in use of food banks this year.

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.

The Pears Jewish Centre will transform Jewish life in Berlin.

We, along with a wider group of funders, recognise that the covid-19 outbreak is an exceptional event that will have…

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

Max Rayne Hand in Hand School for Bilingual Education have won the Jerusalem Education Authority Prize 2016-17.

We are pleased to announce the new £100,000 Pears Youth Fund in partnership with Leeds Community Foundation.

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.  

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.