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; High Town Gym & Wellbeing Centre; Stockwood Park Golf Centre and Stockwood Park Athletics 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. View our gender pay gap information and data below:

Gender Pay Gap Report April 2023

Gender Pay Gap Report April 2024 

Gender Pay Gap Report April 2025

Gender Pay Gap Report April 2026

For information about our Board of Trustees click here.

Active Luton 2023 -2028 Strategy

We are making an Impact.

Click here to see how independent economic consultants Volterra show we deliver £44m in social value.

Click to view our latest impact reports:

2025 – 2026

2024 – 2025

2023 – 2024

2022 – 2023

The Executive Management Team

Lawrence Kay

Chief Executive

Sue Jones

Director of Finance & Resources

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

Active Education

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Age Concern Luton

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Be Active

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Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) Health

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Breathe Easy

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British Lung Foundation

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Community Leisure UK

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Disability Confident Employer

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Good Business Charter

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Keep Luton Tidy

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Luton Borough Council

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Luton & Dunstable Community Hospital

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Luton Rising

Luton Rising is the public airport company focused on driving transformative growth and positive social impact in Luton. Owned by Luton Council, its assets include London Luton Airport, Luton DART and several commercial properties. Since 1998, it has contributed over £500 million directly to local community organisations and funded frontline services across Luton. Today, £7.4 million is reinvested each year into more than 50 local charities and groups, including Active Luton, Culture Trust Luton and Luton Foodbank. Every penny of profit is reinvested into the community rather than paid to private shareholders, delivering 20 times more reinvestment per passenger than any other UK airport.

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MacMillan Cancer Support

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Mindfulness Now

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MS Society

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Professional Development Provider Accreditation

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Sport England

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Stroke Association

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Swim England

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Total Wellbeing Luton

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Turning Point

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University of Bedfordshire

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