This week at Age Concern Luton we’ve been lucky enough to welcome Kayla to our office as she completes some work experience! Kayla’s notes of her time here are reprinted below. Everyone at Age Concern Luton would like to thank her for her hard work and wish her all the luck in the world! In […]

Once again Age Concern Luton have sent out sackloads of Xmas cards to users of our services! We’ve been asked why we still do this what with rising postage prices, a switch to more digital methods and more concern about the environmental aspects of physical cards. However we know that for lots of our older […]

Age Concern Luton are delighted to announce that we are looking for new caring and committed people to join our team! We have roles both as Home Support Workers (job ad here) and Seasonal Gardeners (job ad here) and we’d encourage any interested people to apply! These roles involve direct support to older people and […]

We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone health and happiness in 2023. We sincerely hope that the coming year is a good one and some of the problems older people and the country at large have faced move into the rear view mirror. So far the calls we are taking echo lots […]

We are delighted to announce that we are taking on new staff on both seasonal and permanent contracts! This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone who has wanted to work directly with older people and join our phenomenal team! Please use this link to see full details and how to apply! We are looking for […]

We’re delighted to include the second part of this post from our volunteer Michael Fanning below! Part 1 can be found here! We all stood as the Royal party made their way from the West Door, through the nave and towards the altar. First was Countess of Wessex, then Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, Zara Tindall, […]

We’re delighted to include a post from our volunteer Michael Fanning below! Part 2 can be found here! It was on a Wednesday afternoon in late October that I received a very mysterious but intriguing phone call from Age Concern Luton’s Director Colette asking if I might be available to represent ACL at an event […]

Visitors to our website have been greeted by a cookie notification and link to our updated Privacy Policy. We are aware that lots of people find these pop-ups annoying, frustrating and essentially pointless but to others, wary of how their information can be used (or potentially misused) they provide piece of mind. More pressingly, at […]

We are looking for enthusiastic, pragmatic and committed people to work on our accredited Home Support service. Home Support Worker Salary £9.15 per hour (plus travelling time payment & expenses) Regular (16-25 hours per week) and bank staff required!  You will be directly assisting older people with a variety of needs and problems.  You will […]

For the twenty-fifth year our Xmas cards are again finding their way out to older people in Luton! Despite the pandemic we’ve actually increased the amount of cards we send out this year! Nearly 3,000 will go to people who we’ve helped in 2020 and for the first time ever we’ll be sending a card […]

The team here at Age Concern Luton were delighted to hear that our Director, Colette, is to receive an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List! The MBE is for Colette’s work for older people over the last 25 years and recognises the positive influence her efforts have had on the lives on older people […]

Over the last few months we’ve been working hard to deliver services to older people.  A number of services that operated throughout lockdown have returned to something approaching ‘normal’ (social distancing and PPE not withstanding) and we want to thank the staff, volunteers and older people involved for embracing new rules and restrictions introduced to […]

Over at AVIVA we’ve been lucky enough to post an appeal for funds to help meet some of the additional costs faced during this pandemic. Similar to many charities we’ve had the double whammy of increased demand for services against massively reduced revenues. Unfortunately the prospect of running shops in a profitable way or reintroducing […]

As part of our commitment to continuing services to older people during the pandemic in a safe, appropriate and responsible way we have formalised a number of our working practices into risk assessments. These documents can be downloaded via our Media page. Please note these are likely to change and, whereas in normal times we […]

As we enter the fourth week of these highly unusual times we’ve been able to take stock a little and update everyone as to some of the changes we’ve implemented. Our previous blog detailed the essential alterations we’ve made to our befriending services as we move to a more remote model.  We’ve also changed our […]

In my 15 years at Age Concern Luton I’ve never known anything like this week.  We’ve stopped lunch clubs, closed our three shops and fundamentally changed everything we do in order to try and help older people who, if the current course is not changed, will die from this disease. I was heartbroken by the […]

This morning we’ve taken quite a few calls regarding Coronavirus and the effect this will have on Age Concern Luton’s capacity to deliver services and how people, who want to, can help. For clarity we are being led by the Government advice and that of the people using our services and this is essentially to […]

With Christmas well and truly over it’s very much in with the new here at Age Concern Luton and we are looking for great people to join us! Check out our jobs page here for all current vacancies! We need a computer savvy, people person who really cares to join our Getting On team! We […]

Age Concern Luton are looking for a computer savvy, people person who really cares to join our Getting On team! Thanks to the wonderful support of the National Lottery our new Getting On initiative is now supporting, expanding, improving and really transforming well-being and befriending services locally! We want a Community Engagement Worker to work […]

All posts now filled! Thanks for your amazing applications! Age Concern Luton are looking for caring people to help on both our gardening and handyman services! Demand for gardening has been amazing yet again and, with the hope that the sun keeps shining, we have approximately 16 hours per week of work available for the […]

Age Concern Luton are extremely happy to announce the creation of two new posts designed to help Luton’s older people. Thanks to the wonderful support of the National Lottery we are introducing a new Getting On initiative to support, expand, improve and really transform well-being and befriending services locally. We are currently advertising for 2 […]

2019 has unfortunately seen technological issues at Age Concern Luton. We are currently trying to work through these with the excellent support of Clearhead and hope to have everything back operational in no time! Whilst some of us have embraced the non-digital landscape of pen & paper with something approaching glee those of us tasked […]