Additional funding provided by the international organization for migration and the sigrid rausing trust. This funder works to develop longterm relationships with its grantees. I comanage the womens rights grant portfolio, whose main priorities are ending violence against women, strengthening womens movements, and protecting reproductive rights. We are seeking an exceptional individual to manage our minority rights grantmaking programme. The sigrid rausing trust grant enquiry form thank you for your interest in the sigrid rausing trust. It has come to our attention that hoax emails claiming to be from our chair and founder, sigrid rausing, have been sent to groups and individuals offering a substantial donation and inviting a response to a fraudulent contact email. Rausing studied history at the university of california, berkeley b. Sigrid rausing trust is a grantgiving charitable foundation in the united kingdom 1 set up in 1995 by sigrid rausing to promote human rights globally. Your continued support to raising voices allows us the space and freedom to explore and invent. Eva and hans rausing were neglectful parents, says sister.
It made its first grants in 1996 and, from the beginning, has taken a keen interest in work that promotes international human rights. Annual report about srt welcome to srt sigrid rausing trust. Billionaire sigrid rausing established the sigrid rausing trust in 1995 to support and advance human rights work around the world. We are pleased to announce the publication of the sigrid rausing trusts annual report for 2018. How crippling crack addiction meant socialite eva rausing. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover fabien.
Sigrid maria elisabet rausing born 29 january 1962 is a swedish philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher. She has one sister, sigrid rausing, and one brother, hans kristian rausing. Sigrid rausing book reveals the rausing familys history and evas personal life credit. Doherty worked as a researcher at the directorate of gender affairs in antigua and. Copyright 2016 association of journalists of macedonia.
It made its first grants in 1996 and from the beginning has taken a keen interest in work that promotes international human rights. The sigrid rausing trust is a grantgiving foundation based in london. Sigrid rausing is founder of the sigrid rausing trust and is owner of both granta magazine and granta books. Maha abushama is programme manager for human rights, with a special focus on human rights defenders. Trust staff about srt welcome to srt sigrid rausing. We are pleased to announce the publication of the sigrid rausing trust s annual report for 2018. Fabien maitremuhl programme officer sigrid rausing trust. Tom lee is now senior programme officer for transparency and accountability. The trust supports advocacy, creativity, research and scholarship to these ends. Amina doherty is a nigerian feminist, artist and womens rights advocate education. Sigrid rausing is the daughter of swedish businessman hans rausing. The julia and hans rausing trust independent grant. The julia and hans rausing trust does not accept unsolicited applications for funding, but rather selects organisations to support following careful research.
Contact us about srt welcome to srt sigrid rausing. Also thanks to mona mehta, at oxfam for supporting the printing of sasa. The trust invites applications from organisations which have been proactively identified by the trust according to their priorities for grant making. But, unlike her imperfect creatures that frequently betray whatever trust the reader may place in them. Overview financials documents people operations income. Kirsty youngs castaway is the philanthropist and publisher sigrid rausing. Grants from the sigrid rausing trust may be earmarked for specific projects or given as core grants, which may be used in any way the grantee thinks best, usually for general support. She is the founder of the sigrid rausing trust, one of the united kingdoms largest philanthropic foundations, and owner of granta magazine and granta books.
About srt the trustees are sigrid rausing chair, andrew puddephatt deputy chair, margo picken, chris stone, professor sir jeffrey jowell qc, ruth rogers and hosh ibrahim. The sigrid rausing trust was set up in 1995 by sigrid rausing. Addiction is a no mans land between mental illness and bad behaviour five years ago, the body of the granta owners drugdependent sisterinlaw was discovered in her. The purpose of sigrid rausing trust srt is to promote the values and principles of human rights and freedoms, equality and the rule of law, and to preserve nature from further degradation. A selection of grants illustrating our funding interests are featured below. The trust supports initiatives within three main areas. But evas father, tom kemeny, has condemned the book, claiming it will tear. She came to the trust from amnesty internationals international secretariat, where she worked for several years as a campaigner on syria, lebanon and jordan. The mission of this trust is to take interest particularly in womens rights and lgbti rights. She is also an anthropologist, whose book, based on her phd, history, memory and. She holds a masters degree in gender, development and globalisation from the london school of economics career. It was originally called the ruben and elisabeth rausing trust after her grandparents. The sigrid rausing trust is a grantmaking foundation, founded in 1995 to support human rights globally.
The main family charitable vehicles are the julia and hans rausing trust, run by rausing s son, hans kristian, 55, and wife julia, the sigrid rausing trust, run by rausing s daughter sigrid. Established in 1995 the sigrid rausing trust was set up in 1995 by sigrid rausing. The lack of measurable progress is a genuine disincentive for funders who might otherwise be sympathetic to human rights. Eva rausings family in bitter row over billionaires drug. Sigrid rausing is the sister of tetra pak heir hans, who concealed his wife evas decomposing body for two months after she died of a drug overdose in 2012 sigrid. The programme supports organisations advocating for the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, people with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. Members of the international board are geoffrey budlender, joshua mailman and mabel van oranje. Her grandfather, ruben rausing, was cofounder of the swedish packaging company tetra pak. Roger taylor it is billed as a memoir of addiction in the family.
Sigrid rausing s mayhem focuses on an incident that seems to have been relatively widely reported in the press, especially in sweden, although i had heard nothing about it before beginning to read her memoir. Job description chief operating officer nfp consulting. The son of the small business owners august andersson and mathilda fredrika svensson, ruben andersson later rausing, was born 1895 in raus, helsingborg. The sigrid rausing trust is a uk grantmaking foundation, founded in 1995 by sigrid rausing to support human rights globally. Supporting the international human rights movement. The princes trust new centre was made possible due to a gift. More detail on the trust s work can be found on its website. The julia and hans rausing trust is an independent grantmaking charitable fund supporting organisations and charities within the uk. The sigrid rausing trust was founded to promote international human rights. Types of grant and application process sigrid rausing. Sigrid rausing is the publisher of granta magazine, and the proprietor of granta books and portobello books. The body of rausing s brother hanss wife, eva, was found in their london flat in 2012. Ruben studied at the stockholm school of economics and business administration and at columbia university in the united states, from which he received the degree of master of science in 1920.
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