Sigrid Rausing founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust at her Wadhurst Sussex home
"Society Interview portrait of " "Sigrid Rausing" founder of the "Sigrid Rausing Trust" "at her Wadhurst Sussex home". "Her charitable trust gives away about £10m a year to human rights organisations, women's groups, social and economic regeneration agencies and environmental causes, and claims to be Britain's largest philanthropic funder of groups supporting women. Last year, it awarded 36 grants totalling £ specifically to help women escape from poverty and violent relationships. The wealth - a £ fortune - derives from the family's Tetra Pak drinks carton manufacturing company. After her father, Hans, sold 50% of the business to his brother in 1996, the family became the richest in Britain Rausing ploughed £60m of her inheritance into the Ruben and Elisabeth Rausing Trust - named after her grandparents. She added a further £50m in 2001. Two years later the trust acquired her name."
Size: 5400px × 3519px
Location: Wadhurst Sussex England UK Great Britain
Photo credit: © Roger Bamber / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: benefactor, charity, elisabeth, hans, heiress, human, millionaire, millionairess, pak, philanthropist, portrait, rausing, rights, ruben, sigred, sigrid, tetra, thoughtful, trust, womens
