Build your own Luton 2040 pledge toolkit

• Signing up to the Good Business Charter
• Becoming a real living wage employer and ensuring fair hours and employment
• Supporting more flexible working and increasing access to work for families and those with caring responsibilities
• Delivering employment and skills progression opportunities for employees at all levels and formally signing up to the commitments within the Luton Employment and Skills Strategy
• Increasing local spend as well as generating social value and ensuring ethical and sustainable sourcing through procurement and supply chains

• Implementing workplace health and wellbeing plans and employing mental health first aiders
• Creating active workplaces and developing policies and initiatives for active commuting
• Implementing healthy food plans and practices
• Employee assistance programmes as well as support with issues such as debt / housing / financial support
• Delivering services that support quality homes, education, health and wellbeing or community safety
• Increasing social connectedness in workplaces and communities

• Reducing carbon and greenhouse gas emissions and offsetting these to become a net-zero organisation
• Improving efficiency of buildings and equipment, reducing energy consumption and transfer to renewable energy
• Implementing sustainable travel plans and schemes to support green transport as well as walking and cycling
• Implementing waste reduction plans
• Achieving a carbon literate organisation accreditation
• Greening the town or workplaces, tree planting and actions to improve air quality
• Providing leadership and education on the climate agenda in schools, workplaces and communities
• Support the development of skills to assist with the delivery of net-zero plans

• Delivering services that keep young people safe and secure
• Being an ambassador for Luton’s fostering
• Providing mentoring, work experience and targeted support for looked after children, care leavers and disadvantaged children and young people
• Supporting employment and skills for young people through schemes like Passport to Employment, apprenticeships and work experience
• Promoting aspiration and achievement for children and young people
• Giving children and young people a voice in shaping services, opportunities and the future of the town

• Implementing workplace policies to promote diversity and inclusion, including reporting and monitoring on pay gaps
• Delivering an accessibility for all approach and being a disability confident employer
• Supporting the work of Luton’s Fairness Taskforce to tackle inequalities in Luton
• Providing targeted skills and employment opportunities for disadvantaged and under-represented groups
• Developing links with the voluntary and community sector to promote volunteering and provide funding or in-kind support to the VCS (Voluntary Community Sector), such as discounts for venue hire, legal and financial services and mentoring
• Giving all residents/employees/customers a voice in shaping services, opportunities and the future of the town
• Taking pride in the community, improving perceptions of Luton and being an ambassador for the town
• Treating all customers, staff and suppliers fairly and acting with integrity at all times, including fairness in payments for services and taxation
• Increasing opportunities for volunteering and participation
• Support the aspiration of Luton becoming a disability friendly town

Our business is committed to delivering a more inclusive economy and a more sustainable town. We will work with partners and residents to deliver on the Luton 2040 vision by:

• signing up to Luton’s good business charter and paying all our workers the Real Living wage
• increasing our local procurement spend to ensure more money remains within Luton
• reducing our carbon emissions to become a net-zero organisation by 2040
• reducing waste and recycling more through our organisation and our supply chains
• delivering employment and skills provision for young people through schemes like Passport to Employment, apprenticeships and work experience

Our organisation is committed to improving the wellbeing of our population, as well as improving fairness and opportunities for all. We will work with partners and residents to deliver on the Luton 2040 vision by:

• delivering services that support increased physical activity and better mental wellbeing
• increasing social connectedness for our customers, staff and the wider community
• implementing healthy workplace practices such as active travel and healthy food plans for our workforce
• adopting an accessibility for all approach and becoming a disability confident employer
• providing targeted skills and employment opportunities for disadvantaged and under-represented groups

Our organisation is committed to working with children and young people to provide opportunities and skills that enable them to have a successful future. We will work with partners and residents to deliver on the Luton 2040 vision by:

• giving children, young people and their families a strong voice and a role in shaping our services and opportunities
• delivering skills and job readiness programmes to raise aspirations and prepare young people for transition into work
• increasing social connectedness and promoting better physical and mental wellbeing for our young people
• encouraging children and young people to become active citizens, that take pride in their community and contribute to the sustainability of our town