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Lancashire events venue, The Wellbeing Farm, has launched a new “celebration of life” package with the aim of reframing traditional ideas about funerals.

Funeral Partners has launched seven new funding initiatives which will grant approximately £63,000 throughout the year to local charities.

Midlands-based independent funeral directors, A W Lymn, has supported the launch of an uncollected ashes database – the first of its kind in the UK – to address the lack of formal regulation of ...

Some 41% of 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK now favour a traditional burial to a cremation, according to a study conducted by The Farewell Guide, which signals a potential reversal of a decade-long trend ...

Miles and Daughters Funeral Directors has distributed a total of £7k from its community fund to good causes within its local area in Reading. The funeral pr ...

The Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM) has announced that Mathew Crawley has been named its new chief executive, as current CEO Julie Dunk is due to retire in March.

UK funeral plan provider Golden Charter has appointed Jill Hood as chief marketing officer (CMO). The role has been newly created as the business invests in ...

Features SunLife’s Cost of Dying Report is in – but is it accurate? The latest report claimed that direct cremations represented 20% of all UK funerals held in 2023, but the NAFD has reasons to ...

Episode nine in season four of HBO’s hit show Succession features the funeral of billionaire media mogul Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox. With the Roy family being one of the richest families in the ...

George Brooke Funeral Directors, which was established in 1952, has officially joined Funeral Partners. After training as a joiner and undertaker, George B ...

UK funeral plan provider Golden Charter has appointed Stuart McWhinnie as its chief technology officer. McWhinnie has experience in implementing robust tech ...