What is the name of the charity J.K. Rowling founded to support multiple causes?

J.K. Rowling founded the Volant Charitable Trust to support multiple causes. The trust was established in 2000 and has supported projects connected with social deprivation, women, children, and multiple sclerosis.

The name Volant is also associated with Rowling’s charitable work through the Volant Charitable Trust. Her mother, Anne Rowling, died from multiple sclerosis in 1990, and that experience influenced Rowling’s support for research and services connected with the disease.

Volant is not the same organization as Lumos. Rowling founded Lumos in 2005, originally under the name Children’s High Level Group, to campaign for an end to the institutionalization of children and to promote family-based care. The two organizations therefore have different names and histories.

Rowling has also donated to other charities and causes, including Comic Relief and multiple-sclerosis research. The Volant Charitable Trust is the specific charitable trust associated with her own foundation work and should not be replaced by the better-known Lumos in a one-answer question.