About Us

A Community Wellbeing Trust

As a Community Wellbeing Trust, Active Luton’s mission is to make a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of its community, inspiring, motivating and offering opportunities for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to learn and take action to improve their life chances.

Active Luton runs facilities and provides a wide range of high-quality programmes and activities, all of which enable local people to:

• participate in physical activity
• improve their health and wellbeing
• enhance their education and skills 
• create career opportunities

Active Luton is committed to being inclusive, accessible and affordable, working closely with partners locally, regionally and nationally and continuously looking to bring the best to its diverse and vibrant community.

Working at the Heart of the Community

Active Luton works at the heart of its community in a wide variety of ways. It runs facilities across the whole town including Inspire: Luton Sports Village; Lea Manor Recreation Centre; Lewsey Sports Park & Pool; Hightown Community Sports & Arts Centre; Stockwood Park Golf Centre; Stockwood Park Athletics Centre and Hart Hill Community Centre, plus Luton's Libraries.

It reaches out into Luton’s communities working with people to use community spaces, designing and running community programmes and working with children and young people through its education services and school.  

It also has a presence in GP practices and health care centres supporting people to take control of their health, wellbeing and lifestyles through its role in the Total Wellbeing Luton pioneering integrated wellbeing service. 

Active Luton is an Equal Opportunities employer. Click here for our gender pay gap information and data.

For information about our Board of Trustees click here.

The Executive Management Team

Lawrence Kay

Chief Executive

Sue Jones

Director of Finance & Resources/CFO

Callum Ingledew

Director of Operations

Toni Chivers

Director of Learning and Skills 

Elise Hyslop 

Director of Marketing & Business Development

John Bateman 

Sarah Simmonds 

Directors of Community Health and Wellbeing 

Our Partners