Work will start week commencing 24 June on a new state-of-the-art skate park and children’s play areas in Wigmore Park.
Category: Community
St George’s Day fun returns with medieval action and adventure
Luton Council is delighted to announce details of its popular St George’s Day celebrations, which will be held at Wardown Park Bandstand this year.
Help show visitors the very best of Luton – volunteer to be a Luton Rising Festival Maker
Luton Rising is launching the official volunteering scheme for BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend: Luton Rising Festival Makers.
Family-friendly screening of Play-off final at Wardown Park
Fans of Luton Town FC will have the exciting opportunity to watch the team on a big screen at Wardown Park this Saturday!
Innovative stem cell donor recruitment campaign results in almost 50% increase in diverse ethnic donors from Luton on the national register
Luton Swab Week, held between 23-27 January, was a UK first for town-wide stem cell donor recruitment, organised in partnership with Luton Council, Luton Rising, Luton Sixth Form College, the University of Bedfordshire, Anthony Nolan, the National BAME Transplant Alliance, Cricket East, Wicketz, Streets and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Mediators resolve heated disputes
The skill of a mediator is to be able to see both sides of situation or conflict and take a neutral position. It’s not to impose solutions but to help the parties involved find their own.
Luton Mediation has been offering this free service in Luton since 1993, and so plays a vital role in helping keep harmony and avoiding discord within the community – often between neighbours.
Luton pioneers new approach to removing health inequality facing non-white blood cancer patients
Right now, less than 700 Luton residents from minority ethnic backgrounds are registered as stem cell donors. That’s why we’re holding Luton Swab Week from 23-27 January 2023
Environmental charity transforms lives and places
If you’re unemployed and struggling to get back into work, you may be feeling low on confidence. You may want to improve your skills and even gain new qualifications. One of the organisations that helps in Luton is the environmental charity Groundwork East, which works with communities challenged by deprivation to transform places and lives.
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.
Going the extra mile to help children with autism thrive
Teenager Jen* became aware that she was different to her friends and that they no longer wished to hang around with her. She was socially awkward and no longer seemed to fit in.
When her mum discovered Autism Bedfordshire and its evening social group Wanted Fun, she described it as “a godsend”.