J.K. Rowling’s charity that supports vulnerable children is Lumos. She founded the organization in 2005, originally under the name Children’s High Level Group.
Lumos works to end the institutionalisation of children and promote family-based care. Its campaigns and programs address children who live in orphanages or other institutions, arguing that family and community support can provide safer and more effective care in many circumstances.
The organization was renamed Lumos in 2010. The name refers to light and also echoes the magical world created in Rowling’s fiction, but Lumos is a real charitable organization with a child-welfare mission.
Lumos is distinct from Rowling’s charitable trust, Volant Charitable Trust, which she established in 2000. Rowling has supported several causes, including multiple sclerosis research and social welfare, but Lumos is the organization specifically associated with transforming institutional care for children.