THE SIGRID RAUSING TRUST

Registered charity 1194828 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q25436175 · Wikipedia · 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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains only metadata headers and does not include any financial statements, trustee reports, or operational data. Therefore, no assessment of financial health can be made based on the text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Announces Ambitious Future Plans Including New Battersea Building, Rejuvenation of Kensington Site and Major Gift from Sigrid Rausing Trust | Royal College of Art rca.ac.uk · 28/01/2019

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 (3.7%) (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

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GSR FOUNDATION.

• THE GSR FOUNDATION income £3.1m
• THE PAYNE GREENBURGH TRUST income £316k
• THE FARTHING TRUST income £501k
• THE CIRSIUM TRUST income £206k
• P F CHARITABLE TRUST income £4.4m
• THE A.D. CHARITABLE TRUST income £25k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.