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Happy New Year!

 

We are really looking forward to everything we have coming up in 2026! We have so much planned for the community and need you all to continue to show up and support the events! Volunteering, sharing details online, donations, attending events are all important parts of making our community events happen. We hope you have a great year too 😀

We are starting a new group of our own! Join us for our taster session at the end of January to help us make sure the sessions are suitable for you! We need your feedback so are inviting you all to a free session. Book your free place below.

Christmas at Bushmead Hub

Christmas 2025 at the Hub was a real testament to working together as a community to achieve great things. We had support from Good Gym, Bushmead Christ Church, Local Community Members, Luton Council, Bushmead Community Shop, Bushmead Pharmacy, Coop Bushmead, The Head Shed, Beauty Q, CJ’s Cafe, The Round Bush and Pandora (Luton Point), Luton Brass Band and of course our wonderful staff and volunteers and more! We had such great turnout for all our Christmas events and it was amazing to see the Hub buzzing with local people.

Our annual Young at Heart party was a great success. The raffle raised over £100 for our ongoing renovations. If you would like to fundraise or donate yourself, see our fundraiser link below.

This year we introduced a Christmas Crafternoon for the younger members of the Bushmead community. It was very popular and helped us all get in the crafty festive spirit.

We also worked with Luton Council and the Fairness Task Force to have a Christmas tree this year. Our light turn on was a great success with support from Local Businesses and people.

Our Hub was beautifully decorated this year by our talented staff, the attendees of our crafternoon and the children of Bushmead Primary school. A huge thank you to all, it has really brightened up the Hub this winter!

What’s Coming in 2026?

We have so many exciting things coming this year. We are launching a new weekly stay, play and bounce session on Wednesdays in term time from early February. We have Ramadan upcoming, we have lots of family activities coming up again to keep you busy during those school holidays! We have some community events around wellbeing and health and so much more! We share details about all our upcoming events via our monthly newsletter and on our social media platforms. You can find links to these below. Follow along to stay up to date with all our exciting events!

Wildlife Trust

 

As part of our Wilder Luton project, we have been working with local film makers Abi Spendlove and Greta Zabulyte to create a short film that showcases the chalk hills found in and around Luton. We will be showing this film, and another they made in 2024 about the River Lea, at the Luton Library Theatre on Thursday 26^th February, 7.30-9.30pm.

Both films feature the late Trevor Tween, who was so instrumental in looking after these beautiful habitats, so the evening will also be an opportunity to celebrate his life as well as Luton’s landscapes. There is a small fee for attending this event, but any money raised will go towards supporting the efforts of volunteers who help to manage Luton’s green spaces.

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