Runner Up - Community Business Person of the Year - Luton's Best Awards 2023 - Home Instead (Luton & Central Beds)

Recipient: Home Instead (Luton & Central Beds)

Date: Friday 26 Jan 2024

The Luton’s Best Awards shines a light on remarkable individuals and organisations in the community. Recognised for supporting individuals living with dementia and their families, Maria Collins, owner of Home Instead Luton and Central Bedfordshire, has been nominated for ‘Community Businessperson of the Year and was runner up in this category. She has also been instrumental in setting up the dementia-friendly weekly café, Young@Heart which has been nominated for ‘Best Volunteer Award’.
Maria has made it possible for older people throughout the Luton and Dunstable area to receive care at home, including people living with dementia. Since 2015, Maria was chair of Luton Dementia Friendly Community which supported delivery of the local dementia strategy till 2020 - during that time, Maria steered a partnership of around 80 organisations who together worked to make Luton more dementia friendly.