What is the name of J.K. Rowling’s charitable trust supporting multiple sclerosis research?

J.K. Rowling’s charitable trust supporting multiple sclerosis research is the Volant Charitable Trust. Rowling established the trust in 2000, and it has supported projects connected with multiple sclerosis as well as disadvantaged women and children.

The trust’s name is linked to Rowling’s mother, Anne Rowling, who died from multiple sclerosis in 1990 at the age of 45. Her mother’s illness and death influenced Rowling’s charitable interests and later philanthropy.

Volant Charitable Trust is distinct from Lumos, the international children’s charity founded by Rowling in 2005. It is also separate from the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic at the University of Edinburgh, which opened in 2013 and was named in her mother’s memory.