She co-founded the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust with her husband in 2014, which became one of the largest philanthropic funds in the UK.
Julia and her sisters grew up at Doddington Hall in Cheshire and studied at Heathfield School.
She supported him after the death of his first wife and psychiatric hospitalisation, and they married at Woburn Abbey in July 2014.
[6] In 2023, the Trust identified hospices at critically low funding levels and provided £8.7million to 27 at financial risk.
[8][9] A former Moravian Church in Malmesbury was renamed the Julia and Hans Rausing Building in 2018, with funding to support its use for education, heritage, culture and the arts.