JK donates £8million to charities
HARRY Potter author JK Rowling’s charities donated more than £8million to good causes in the last year, it has emerged.
The Edinburgh-based writer, who also pens crime novels under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, has given away millions from her fortune to fund charity work.
The money has been donated by the 52-year-old’s two foundations in the past year.
Rowling founded and is president of the Lumos Foundation, who work to stop the practice of children being held in institutions, and also established the Volant Charitable Trust, who support good causes at home and abroad.
Volant made more than £3million of donations to 20 organisations including the Disasters Emergencies Committee, Oxfam and Save the Children.