Welcome To The Sigrid Rausing Trust

The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a grant-giving foundation based in London. It was founded in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing to support the international human rights movement.

We run five programmes: Civil and Political Rights, Women's Rights, Minority Rights, Social Justice and the Miscellaneous Fund. Each programme has a number of sub-programmes, which you will find by selecting a programme above.

Our guiding principles are:

• We recognise the essential role of core funding.
• We look for good and effective leadership.
• We are flexible and responsive to needs and opportunities.
• We value clarity and brevity in applications and reports.
• We establish long-term relationships with grantees.

The 2012 Trust budget is £20 million.

The Trust has given away approximately £177.4 million since 1995.

We currently run two special initiatives, the Strategic Fund for Turkey and the Middle East & North Africa Strategic Fund. You will find more information about them here.