Google Business Profiles have now become a must-have for funeral businesses when it comes to search results, writes Eimer Duffy (right) from FIT Social Media. If you don’t have one, you might…
Author: Ruth Nicholas
How to be a leading woman: ‘being a mother actually drives me harder’
Jade Wilcox, Managing Director at Wilcox Limousines, a British family-run coachbuilder of more than 70 years, shares her experiences of leadership within the funeral sector, traditionally a male-dominated industry It was never my…
‘Why I chose the funeral profession at 17’
One visitor to the FSJ stand at NFE this year was Molly Dowling, 19, who is an apprentice funeral director at Ewan Walder Funeral Services in East Sussex. We asked Molly to…
Tori Bush joins Tributes board in strategic move
Tributes, the West Sussex-based supplier to the funeral sector, has appointed Tori Bush to its Board of Directors. Tori, who has worked at Tributes as Sales Manager since 2017, has been instrumental in…
CPJ Field back #PaidLeaveToGrieve
The UK’s oldest funeral directors, CPJ Field, is calling on Brits to support its #PaidLeaveToGrieve campaign – encouraging all UK employers to offer a flexible paid bereavement policy to staff. There is currently…
New Start: meet the teacher turned celebrant
Lisa Jane Newman from Wigan worked as an English teacher before a period of ill health gave her pause for thought. She explains why she chose to train as a funeral celebrant I…
Torbay: Patrick the therapy pony helps bereaved families
The team from a funeral home in Torquay are helping the local community by supporting a charitable organisation that provides pony therapy. Torbay and District Funeral Service, part of the Funeral Partners network,…
Ashes – are they mounting or shifting?
A recent Funeral Solution Expert consumer study asked 1,500 UK adults how they feel about cremated ashes – what they mean to them, what they do with them, and how environmental considerations…
