The Pears Family Charitable Foundation
The Pears Foundation is the charity of the Pears family, principally brothers Mark Pears, David Pears and Trevor Pears, who runs the foundation. The family are worth £2.1 billion according to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2014[1] and among other assets control the William Pears Group, one of Britain's biggest property companies.[2][3][4][5][6]
Much of the foundation's income is generated by the William Pears Group, a property company established by the Pears brothers’ father.[7]
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BIRAX
Together with the British Council in Israel the Pears Foundation established the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership (BIRAX) in 2008, which it describes as 'a major initiative launched by the Prime Ministers of both countries'.[8]. According to Professor David Newman of Ben Gurion University, who was involved in planning the program, it 'has a great deal to do with the boycott' movement against Israel:
- 'Because of the ongoing discussion of boycotts the British government decided that the most appropriate response was to strengthen research ties'.[9]
UK-Israel Life Sciences Council
In 2010, the Pears Foundation, along with the Zabludowicz Trust and other bodies, supported the creation of the UK-Israel Life Sciences Council, described as an 'ambitious expansion of the BIRAX scheme'. British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould noted: 'The British Government is opposed to boycotts of Israel, and this Council is an expression of that'. Trevor Pears reportedly attended the launch meeting.[10]
Israel Studies at British Universities
Pears Foundation says it is 'building the capacity of Israel Studies as an academic discipline in British universities'. Its funding has helped to establish academic posts in the field at the University of Manchester, the University of Leeds, Sussex University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where the European Association of Israel Studies, also created with 'start up funding' from Pears, is based.[8]
Olive Tree Initiative and Center for New Diplomacy
Pears is a 'core funder' of the Olive Tree Initiative, which it says works with students to promote conflict analysis and resolution through experiential education.
It also financially supports the Center for New Diplomacy 'on the ground in Israel', describing it as 'a non-partisan initiative which facilitates in-depth study trips to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Territories'. Both projects, it states, 'enable participants to develop a more informed perspective on the region'.[8]
Finances
Incoming
| Income | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donations and legacies | 18,548,380 | 20,182,785 | 22,471,574 | 32,761,061 | 19,563,749 |
| Charitable activities | 1,000,000 | ||||
| Investments | 134,638 | 8,490 | 135,820 | 135,820 | 135,158 |
Data compiled from Pears Family Charitable Foundation Annual Accounts: 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022
Grants paid
| Grant recipients of the Pears Family Charitable Foundation in £ sterling | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organisation | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Total (£) |
| 360Giving | 50,000 | 50,000 | ||||
| Above & Beyond | 77,781 | 77,781 | ||||
| Abraham Fund Intiatives | 70,000 | 70,000 | ||||
| Access Social Care | 100,000 | 100,000 | ||||
| Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust | 72,090 | 72,090 | ||||
| Aegis Trust | 77,525 | 80,000 | 101,500 | 259,025 | ||
| AfriKids | 117,000 | 100,000 | 217,000 | |||
| Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village | 250,000 | 250,000 | ||||
| AJEEC-NISPED | 94,000 | 117,957 | 211,957 | |||
| AJDC | 290,000 | 290,000 | ||||
| Ambitious about Autism | 400,000 | 100,000 | 400,000 | 900,000 | ||
| American Joint Distribution Committee | 150,000 | 142,000 | 292,000 | |||
| American Jewish World Service (AJWS) | 100,000 | 125,000 | 225,000 | |||
| Anne Freud Centre | 75,000 | 1,105,000 | 1,180,000 | |||
| Antisemitism Policy Trust | 150,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 275,000 | 725,000 |
| Association of Charitable Foundations | 71,800 | 71,800 | ||||
| Association of Colleges | 1,047,000 | 1,047,000 | ||||
| Atlantic College | 64,000 | 64,000 | ||||
| Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust | 80,000 | 80,000 | ||||
| Beit Halochem UK | 50,000 | 50,000 | ||||
| Birkbeck - University of London | 225,000 | 1,081,542 | 1,306,542 | |||
| Birmingham Women's and Children's Charity | 80,000 | 80,000 | ||||
| Black Stork Charity | 300,000 | 300,000 | ||||
| Bournemouth Hospital Charity | 75,741 | 75,741 | ||||
| Bradford Literature Festival | 63,550 | 63,550 | ||||
| Bright Northumbria | 79,400 | 79,400 | ||||
| British Council | 1,134,130 | 1,134,130 | ||||
| British Council - Occupied Palestinian Territories Office | 150,000 | 150,000 | ||||
| British Red Cross | 761,609 | 761,609 | ||||
| Bureau of Investigative Journalism | 105,000 | 105,000 | 210,000 | |||
| Cardiff and Vale Health Charity | 79,133 | 79,133 | ||||
| Carers Trust | 1,000,000 | 1,550,000 | 350,000 | 2,900,000 | ||
| Carers UK | 100,000 | 100,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 350,000 | |
| Centre for Countering Digital Hate | 50,000 | 100,000 | 150,000 | |||
| Centre for Philanthropy | 176,140 | 176,140 | ||||
| Centre for Research in Autism and Education | 125,000 | 125,000 | ||||
| Chabad Berlin | 425,000 | 425,000 | ||||
| Chartered College of Teaching | 90,000 | 50,000 | 70,000 | 120,000 | 330,000 | |
| Chesterfield Royal Hospital Charity | 75,726 | 75,726 | ||||
| CL Berlin | 1,755,270 | 1,755,270 | ||||
| Collective Impact Initiative | 80,000 | 80,000 | ||||
| Community Foundation for Northern Ireland | 160,000 | 160,000 | ||||
| Community Foundation in Wales | 100,000 | 100,000 | ||||
| Contact / Contact a Family | 200,000 | 1,437,360 | 650,000 | 2,287,360 | ||
| Coram | 150,000 | 75,000 | 480,000 | 705,000 | ||
| Cranfield Trust | 90,000 | 90,000 | 180,000 | |||
| Crisis Action | 120,000 | 80,000 | 200,000 | |||
| CW+ | 77,440 | 91,550 | 168,990 | |||
| Disabled Children's Partnership | 260,234 | 300,000 | 560,234 | |||
| Dorset County Hospital Charity | 75,050 | 75,050 | ||||
| Duke of Edinburgh's Award | 350,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 400,000 | 250,000 | 1,500,000 |
| East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund | 90,000 | 90,000 | ||||
| Eden Project | 15,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 165,000 | ||
| Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation | 88,000 | 136,923 | 224,923 | |||
| Fair Education Alliance | 99,755 | 99,755 | ||||
| Faith in Leadership | 75,000 | 75,000 | 150,000 | 300,000 | ||
| Family Fund | 500,000 | 100,000 | 600,000 | |||
| First Give | 238,500 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 1,038,500 |
| Forward Thinking | 50,000 | 50,000 | ||||
| Full Fact | 150,000 | 150,000 | ||||
| Girlguiding UK | 1,140,863 | 2,391,248 | 3,532,111 | |||
| Hand in Hand | 106,921 | 152,596 | 259,517 | |||
| Haven House Children's Hospice | 100,000 | 120,000 | 220,000 | |||
| Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,060,000 | 970,000 | 5,030,000 |
| Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association | 128,273 | 50,000 | 178,273 | |||
| Home-Start UK | 1,100,000 | 205,000 | 1,305,000 | |||
| Hope into Action | 80,000 | 80,000 | ||||
| Horatio's Garden | 75,000 | 50,000 | 125,000 | |||
| Hull and East Yorkshire NHS General Charitable Fund | 79,520 | 79,520 | ||||
| Imperial Health Charity | 89,926 | 89,926 | ||||
| Imperial War Museum | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 5,000,000 | |
| Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) | 150,000 | 75,000 | 225,000 | |||
| Independent Provider of Special Education Advice | 70,000 | 70,000 | ||||
| Institute for Voluntary Action | 58,125 | 65,000 | 123,125 | |||
| International Award for Young People - Israel | 75,000 | 125,000 | 200,000 | |||
| International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation | 80,000 | 120,000 | 200,000 | |||
| Israel Youth Award | 150,000 | 150,000 | ||||
| Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research | 184,813 | 245,749 | 273,147 | 300,726 | 287,516 | 1,291,951 |
| Jewish Care | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 600,000 | |
| Jewish Interactive | 50,000 | 50,000 | ||||
| Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade (JLGB) | 100,000 | 75,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 275,000 | |
| JW3 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 400,000 | |
| Kaye Academic College of Education | 280,000 | 280,000 | ||||
| King's College Hospital Charity | 80,000 | 80,000 | ||||
| Kisharon | 250,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 350,000 | ||
| Leeds Cares | 79,050 | 79,050 | ||||
| Leeds Community Foundation | 130,000 | 150,000 | 330,000 | 610,000 | ||
| Leicester Hospitals Charity | 78,252 | 78,252 | ||||
| Linking Network | 248,282 | 50,000 | 500,000 | 250,000 | 1,048,282 | |
| London School of Jewish Studies | 79,712 | 79,712 | ||||
| Maccabi GB | 80,000 | 80,000 | ||||
| Maggie's Centres | 50,000 | 50,000 | ||||
| Manchester Foundation Trust Charity | 82,771 | 82,771 | ||||
| Marie Curie | 200,000 | 340,000 | 200,000 | 500,000 | 200,000 | 1,440,000 |
| Maslaha | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 300,000 | ||
| Maudsley Charity | 80,000 | 5,500,000 | 100,000 | 5,680,000 | ||
| Mencap | 100,000 | 200,000 | 1,100,000 | 300,000 | 1,700,000 | |
| Merkaz Ma'ase | 60,000 | 60,000 | ||||
| Mind | 1,001,215 | 1,001,215 | ||||
| NALA Foundation | 90,000 | 90,000 | 200,000 | 380,000 | ||
| National Autistic Society | 100,000 | 225,000 | 325,000 | |||
| National Holocaust Centre and Museum | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 1,200,000 | 2,000,000 |
| National Society for the Promotion of Education | 95,000 | 70,000 | 165,000 | |||
| Newcastle College | 82,035 | 82,035 | ||||
| New Israel Fund UK | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 600,000 | ||
| NHS England & NHS Improvement | 163,798 | 163,798 | ||||
| Nightingale Hammerson | 1,000,000 | 50,000 | 1,050,000 | |||
| North Hertfordshire College | 95,492 | 95,492 | ||||
| Norwood | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 750,000 |
| Nottingham Hospitals Charity | 82,981 | 82,981 | ||||
| Office of the Chief Rabbi | 85,000 | 88,000 | 173,000 | |||
| OLAM | 150,000 | 154,000 | 165,000 | 155,000 | 145,000 | 769,000 |
| Olive Tree Initiative | 100,000 | 100,000 | 200,000 | |||
| Pennies Foundation | 300,000 | 300,000 | 600,000 | |||
| Place2Be | 100,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 1,000,000 | |
| Quaker Social Action | 100,000 | 50,000 | 150,000 | |||
| RNN Group - Rotherham College | 81,000 | 81,000 | ||||
| Round Up Israel | 66,000 | 66,000 | ||||
| Royal College of Arts | 6,802 | 6,802 | ||||
| Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | 300,000 | 300,000 | ||||
| Royal Free Charity | 85,760 | 850,000 | 935,760 | |||
| Royal Society of the Arts | 114,272 | 6,802 | 121,074 | |||
| Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Charity | 34,888 | 34,888 | ||||
| Samaritans | 70,000 | 1,345,000 | 100,000 | 1,515,000 | ||
| School-Home Support | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 300,000 | ||
| Scottish Jewish Heritage | 50,000 | 50,000 | ||||
| Scout Association | 1,323,353 | 1,981,119 | 3,304,472 | |||
| Sense | 100,000 | 100,000 | 465,000 | 323,000 | 988,000 | |
| Shared Lives Plus | 80,000 | 80,000 | 160,000 | |||
| Sheffield Hospitals Charity | 79,273 | 79,273 | ||||
| Sightsavers | 200,000 | 200,000 | ||||
| SOAS - University of London | 112,019 | 112,019 | ||||
| Society for International Development | 267,407 | 267,407 | ||||
| Society for International Development - Israel | 242,838 | 238,871 | 260,764 | 263,077 | 1,005,550 | |
| Solutions Not Sides | 60,000 | 80,000 | 120,000 | 260,000 | ||
| South Kent Coast Clinic Commissioning Group | 200,000 | 200,000 | ||||
| Step Up to Serve | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 300,000 | ||
| StreetGames UK | 80,280 | 125,000 | 240,500 | 445,780 | ||
| Student Hubs | 55,000 | 55,000 | ||||
| Tevel b'Tzedek | 113,293 | 116,288 | 89,786 | 319,367 | ||
| The Mix | 420,363 | 50,000 | 470,363 | |||
| ThinkForward | 150,000 | 100,000 | 250,000 | |||
| Torbay and South Devon NHS Charitable Fund | 80,000 | 80,000 | ||||
| Trussell Trust | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | ||||
| Tzedek | 80,000 | 75,000 | 50,000 | 205,000 | ||
| UK Jewish Film | 150,000 | 100,000 | 250,000 | |||
| UK Youth | 2,100,000 | 239,650 | 2,339,650 | |||
| United Jewish Israel Appeal | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 500,000 |
| University College London | 500,000 | 575,000 | 500,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,992,873 | 4,567,873 |
| UCLH Charity | 80,000 | 80,000 | ||||
| UNICEF | 200,000 | 200,000 | ||||
| University of Glasgow | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | ||||
| University of Kent | 2,000,000 | 210,000 | 2,210,000 | |||
| University of Oxford | 398,921 | 398,921 | ||||
| University of Sussex | 150,000 | 150,000 | ||||
| USC Shoah Foundation | 269,851 | 269,851 | ||||
| Weiner Holocaust Library | 69,643 | 69,643 | ||||
| West Hertfordshire Hospitals Charity | 79,956 | 79,956 | ||||
| Woodland Trust | 2,000,000 | 300,000 | 2,300,000 | |||
| Yachad | 60,000 | 60,000 | ||||
| Yedid | 75,000 | 75,000 | ||||
| Yeovil Hospital Charity | 78,613 | 78,613 | ||||
| Young Citizens | 109,500 | 335,119 | 100,000 | 160,000 | 160,000 | 864,619 |
| Young Minds | 80,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 230,000 | ||
Data compiled from Pears Family Charitable Foundation Annual Accounts: 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022
People
Trustees
Correct as of 7 February 2023.[11]
| Name | Role | Date Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Trevor Pears | Chair | |
| David Pears | Trustee | |
| Mark Pears | Trustee |
See also
- All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism/Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism Foundation
- Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
- The Sunday Times Rich List 2022
- Top 100 philanthropists in the UK - The Sunday Times Giving List 2022
- Top 300 Foundations ranked by giving in the UK - 2019
- Top 300 Foundations ranked by giving in the UK - 2021
- Charitable spending of the largest 100 UK family foundations
Notes
- ↑ Kasmira Jefford, Mysterious Pears dynasty backs new venture to build £1bn of London homes, City AM, 27 March 2014
- ↑ James Quinn, Pears family comes out of the property shadows, Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2011
- ↑ Charity Details.
- ↑ EXCLUSIVE: Scots city to receive £100k due to charity's family ties.
- ↑ Pears Foundation gives £5m to Imperial War Museum to upgrade Holocaust exhibition - The Jewish Chronicle.
- ↑ Pears family comes out of the property shadows.
- ↑ Who we are :: Pears Foundation.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Israel as a Global Citizen, Pears Foundation, accessed 13 April 2015
- ↑ Waldoks, E.Z. (2008), Olmert Brown launch new academic exchange program, The Jerusalem Post, 21-July-2008
- ↑ Ben Gurion University New UK-Israel Council to Forge Strong Ties in Life Sciences 26 January 2011.
- ↑ Pears Family Foundation Trustees, Charity Commission. Last retrieved 7 February 2023.
