J.K. Rowling’s charity for vulnerable children is called Lumos.
Lumos is an international charity founded by J.K. Rowling in 2005. Its work focuses on ending the institutionalisation of children and helping families and communities provide safer, family-based care. The organisation was originally established as the Children’s High Level Group before adopting the name Lumos in 2010.
The charity takes its name from the light-producing spell “Lumos” in the Harry Potter books. Its policy work has highlighted the harm that long-term institutional care can cause to children, including developmental and emotional difficulties. Lumos supports reforms intended to replace large residential institutions with family support, foster care, adoption, and small community-based services. A frequent confusion is that Lumos is not a general book-promotion foundation: its central mission concerns children separated from families and the systems designed to protect them.