St Andrew’s Luton honoured at the Luton & Bedfordshire Community Awards [Video]

On Friday 8 November, St Andrew’s Luton, in collaboration with local organisations, received the distinguished ‘Mark West Diversity, Equality and Inclusion’ Award at the Luton & Bedfordshire Community Awards. The annual event, organised by Community Interest Luton (CIL)—a charity dedicated to fostering collaboration across the community—honours the region’s unsung heroes, celebrating those who work to enrich lives within Luton’s multicultural society.

The award recognised St Andrew’s for its parish project, the ‘Biscot Peace and Wellbeing Hub,’ with its mission of ‘making peace, growing together, and transforming the community’. This initiative, launched in February 2024, addresses major health inequalities in Biscot, an area known for its significant religious and ethnic diversity and high levels of deprivation, particularly affecting children.

With support from the neighbouring Blenheim Medical Centre, St Andrew’s created this project to unite the community across different faiths and cultures in a genuinely grassroots approach. Under the leadership of Priest-in-Charge Fr Luke Larner, church wardens, lay leaders, and a …