UK Youth saddened by passing of Julia Rausing

Everyone at UK Youth is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Julia Rausing.

Mrs Rausing and her husband Hans were huge supporters of our work, contributing £10 million to our Thriving Minds fund to support young people’s mental health and £1.3m to support youth organisations post-Covid.

Thriving Minds is an ambitious fund for projects which improve mental health support and provision for young people.

The Covid Resilience Fund offered grants of up to £50,000 to youth organisations in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The fund aimed to ensure grassroots youth organisations that suffered due to the pandemic had the resources required to reopen or bring their level of delivery back to pre-covid levels and ensure they had the financial means to weather future disruption.

Our thoughts are with Mrs Rausing’s husband, family and friends at this sad time.

UK Youth is a leading charity with a vision that all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. With an open network of more than 8,000 youth organisations and nation partners; UK Youth is focused on unlocking youth work as the catalyst of change needed now more than ever. To find out more, visit ukyouth.org 

UK Youth is involved in a range of programmes designed to help young people thrive, such as outdoor learning, physical literacy, social action and employability, including Hatch, a youth employability programme run in partnership with KFC. For more on UK Youth’s programmes, see ukyouth.org/what-we-do/programmes