Luton Town FC is encouraging residents across Luton and wider Bedfordshire to learn how to save a life during Heart Month (February 2026). The club is promoting a community drive to get fans and local people trained in hands‑only CPR using a free online tool.
The initiative is being run in partnership with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) — supported by the EFL and Sky Bet — to promote the BHF’s RevivR training tool, which teaches hands‑only chest compressions and how to use a defibrillator.
The campaign is inspired by former Luton captain Tom Lockyer, who survived a cardiac arrest on the pitch on 16 December 2023. Since that incident, Luton Town FC has used its community platform to encourage more residents to learn lifesaving skills and to raise awareness about the importance of early CPR and defibrillation.
Local people can use the BHF’s free digital tool, RevivR, to learn via a smartphone; the course uses the phone camera to monitor compressions and can be practised using a household cushion. The training takes about 15 minutes — roughly the length of a halftime interval at a football match.
The club’s effort forms part of the ‘Every Minute Matters’ campaign, the Sky Bet and BHF partnership that has expanded its ambition and is aiming to reach a milestone of 500,000 people trained. Sky Bet is also supporting the campaign financially: it will donate £1,000 to the British Heart Foundation for every goal scored across the EFL during February, with funds going towards community defibrillators and vital heart research.
Survival from out‑of‑hospital cardiac arrest in the UK remains under 10%. By learning how to perform CPR and use a public access defibrillator (PAD/AED), fans can increase the chance of survival for family members, neighbours and fellow supporters in an emergency.
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