THE SIGRID RAUSING TRUST

Registered charity 1194828 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIGRID RAUSING TRUST

The Trust gives grants to support work on human rights and rule of law, open societies, and the environment. We support groups in a number of focus regions and countries internationally. We also make occasional gifts via our Chairs Gifts and Trustees Gifts programmes.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13152028

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sigrid Rausing — Chair (source)
• Andrew Puddephatt — Deputy Chair (source)
• Celia Davies — Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BUNGARTEN, Pia — director, appointed 07/03/2025on trustee list
• HOTZ, Daniel Jakob Anders — director, appointed 01/01/2024on trustee list
• PUDDEPHATT, Andrew Charles — director, appointed 22/01/2021on trustee list
• RAUSING, Sigrid Maria Elisabet — director, appointed 22/01/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~18.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIGRID MARIA ELISABET RAUSINGchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Puddephatt
• Daniel Jakob Anders Hotz
• Pia Bungarten
• Professor Sir Jeffrey Jowell

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Albania · Armenia · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belgium · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Canada · Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Croatia

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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