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 four programmes: Civil and Political Rights, Women’s Rights, Minority Rights and Social and Environmental Justice. 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 2010 Trust budget is £20million.