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The Sigrid Rausing Trust (SRT) : Promoting Human Rights Globally

The Sigrid Rausing Trust (SRT) is a UK grant making Trust which supports human rights globally. Since then, the Trust has given away approximately £208.3 million to human rights organisations all over the world.

The Trust has particular focus on medium-sized and growing grantees because the Trust wants to identify new organisations and add value to the field.

Focus Areas

  1. Advocacy, Research and Litigation
  2. Detention, Torture and Death Penalty
  3. Human Rights Defenders
  4. Free Expression
  5. Transitional Justice
  6. Women’s Rights
  7. LGBTI Rights
  8. Xenophobia and Intolerance
  9. Transparency and Accountability

 Type of Grants

Trustees’ Small Grants

Trustees may bring small grant applications from organisations they know well to the meetings. There is no application process for these grants.

Emergency Grants

If one of our grantees is faced with a genuine emergency or unexpected opportunity they can contact their Programme Officer to ask if an emergency grant can be arranged. Emergency grants are always earmarked, and are always a response to an urgent and unexpected situation.

Guiding Principles

  • SRT recognizes the value of core funding.
  • SRT looks for good and effective leadership.
  • SRT is flexible and responsive to needs and opportunities.
  • SRT valued clarity and brevity in applications and reports.
  • SRT looks to establish long-term relationships with grantees.

 Focus Countries

The Trust funds organisations globally and anyone in the world is eligible to apply whose core values match with the Fund’s criteria.

The Trust funds two regional programmes: the Strategic Fund for Turkey, and the Angelica Trust for Mexico.

The Trust supports regional programme to encourage democracy and human rights in the MENA region; the Middle East & North Africa Strategic Fund.

 Application process

  • The Trust only accepts solicited applications for funding.
  • The trust invites applications from organisations which have been proactively identified by the Trust according to their priorities for grant making.
  • 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.
  • There is no minimum or maximum level for a grant but the Trust will not normally support more than 25% of the budget of an organization or a project.
  • The Trust begins their partnership with grantees with a one-year grant. This may be followed by several cycles of three-year grants.

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