Our airport.
Our community.
Our planet.
Luton Rising is a business and social enterprise that works in, for and is owned by the community – our sole shareholder is Luton Council. Our largest asset is London Luton Airport, and we are proud that we are owners of by far the most socially impactful airport in the country, supporting and improving lives across the communities we serve.
We make a major economic contribution to our local region, and aim to be one of the greenest airports.
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airport.Find out morePre-pandemic, 18 million passengers chose our airport to connect with over 127 destinations in 37 countries. We are the UK’s fifth largest airport and our plans for an additional terminal will create 12,000 new jobs and an additional £1.6bn in economic activity.
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community.Find out moreWe are the UK’s most socially impactful airport and have given over £155 million in philanthropy to local community projects. For every passenger travelling through our airport, 53p is invested directly in the local community: 20 times that of any other UK airport.
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planet.Find out moreOur Sustainability and Net Zero Strategies and our emerging Green Controlled Growth approach to expansion, make, we believe, some of the most far-reaching commitments to minimising environmental impact ever put forward by a UK airport.
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Luton Rising to be Headline Sponsor at the Luton and Bedfordshire Community Awards
Luton Rising are delighted to be the headline sponsor for the Luton and Bedfordshire Community Awards 2022.
Ben’s passport to a new career on the Luton DART
Ben Scott had enjoyed various jobs since graduating from the University of Hertfordshire with a degree in maths and computer studies. Still, he had a hankering to find a longer-term career path – and soon he found it on our pioneering Luton DART construction scheme.
Reflecting on our community successes in 2021
We are the owners of the most socially impactful airport in the UK. This means that all the success we have at our airport, the UK’s leading community airport, continues to be invested across our incredible local communities in order to improve people’s lives. Such investment includes empowering our communities by celebrating the achievements of local unsung heroes who wake up every day to make Luton a better place through their voluntary and community activities.