About Light Years Ahead
At Light Years Ahead, we design and manufacture lighting that supports safety, wellbeing and durability in specialist environments. From custodial and prison lighting to anti-ligature and secure luminaires for transport and mental healthcare lighting, every fitting is built to protect, perform, and last.
Driven by engineering expertise and guided by integrity, we deliver lighting that goes beyond illumination, creating safer, more resilient environments that support wellbeing, compliance and efficiency.
Our core values
Our core values of continuous investment, innovation, quality and customer focus drive everything we do, enabling us to deliver trusted lighting solutions and exceptional service, every time.
Trusted UK Partner
Since 1997, we have built a reputation as a trusted UK partner. Our UK-built luminaires are tested to exceed standards, delivering reliability and longevity where failure is not an option.
Technical Support
LYA offers proactive technical support, working with consultants and contractors from project conception through design, manufacture and completion.
Secure By Nature
Our clients include prisons, police stations, law courts, transport and the mental healthcare sector nationally in the UK and beyond our borders globally.
Lighting that works when it matters most.
Built to perform. Designed to protect.
With over 25 years of industry experience, we’ve built a reputation for products that perform under pressure. Every luminaire is engineered, assembled and tested in the UK to meet demanding technical and compliance standards, including IK impact ratings, anti-ligature design principles and sector-specific guidance.
Working with us you can be assured that we wholeheartedly listen to understand your exact needs. Having a deep understanding of your brief means we’re able to utilise our expertise to design, manufacture and deliver best-in-class products that match your budget.
What sets us apart is our focus on working closely with those who specify, install and rely on our lighting every day — consultants, estates teams, architects and end clients. We’ll help you select the right lighting for the people and purpose it’s meant to serve. Customer relationship is at the heart of everything we do. We aim for 100% on-time delivery, every time.
We believe that lighting can do more than illuminate. It can help create safer environments, support therapeutic care and reduce maintenance and energy demands without sacrificing quality or design integrity.
Designed, tested and built in Britain. Engineered for safer environments.
Performance you can trust. Reliability you can see.
Every product we create is built on trust and technical precision. We design with purpose to ensure safety, compliance and performance are never compromised, no matter how challenging the environment. We innovate to solve real problems. From anti-ligature solutions to smart control systems, our focus is on improving safety, efficiency and wellbeing through lighting that makes a measurable difference.
Our goal is simple: to help clients create safer spaces, reduce risk and achieve long-term performance through intelligent, precision-engineered lighting.