While the media asks “who funds Hope Not Hate?”, the answer has sat on a public grantee list the whole time.
The Sigrid Rausing Trust — the Tetra Pak billionaire family’s foundation, one of the largest grant-makers in Britain — lists Hope Not Hate as a current grantee.
The numbers
- £250,000 grant, start February 2026 — active today
- £1,615,000 lifetime since 2013
- Supported continuously for over a decade
Why it never appears in the charity’s own accounts
The Rausing Trust gives unrestricted core funding. That means it does not appear in the restricted-donors note of the charity’s filing — the note that names Paul Hamlyn, This Day, AB Charitable and the rest. It is not hidden; it is simply the kind of money that funds the running of the machine rather than a named project.
The point is not secrecy. The point is scale: the biggest names in British philanthropy fund the anti-hate campaign operation, quietly, as core costs. When you hear “who funds Hope Not Hate?” — a Tetra Pak fortune has been paying for years, and is still paying now.