A campaign has been launched to help people in the greater Bristol area feel more comfortable about having conversations around death and dying. Hundreds of woodland burials and ashes interments are carried out…
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Fuller Inquiry: 17 recommendations made to prevent similar atrocities
The Independent Inquiry into the issues raised by the David Fuller case has published its Phase 1 Report. In November 2021, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced an independent…
Hundreds form guard of honour for King of the Fells Joss Naylor
Hundreds of fell runners formed a guard of honour at the funeral of a record-breaking veteran athlete. Joss Naylor, who was born in Cumbria and known as the King of the Fells, died…
National award for midwife at the heart of pioneering bereavement centre
A midwife who was the driving force behind the development of a pioneering bereavement centre has received a national award, reports BBC News, West Midlands. Alison Rea, senior bereavement midwife at Birmingham Women’s…
Vibrant NFE 2024 delivers balance of information, education and opportunity
Over three days in June, the funeral sector came together to learn, be inspired and spend time together in a vibrant and future-focused environment as the 2024 National Funeral Exhibition opened its…
CofE parishes warned off National Burial Grounds Survey due to data risks
Parishes should be told not to sign up to the National Burial Grounds Survey because of the risks, including of the data being sold to the Mormon Church, the General Synod agreed,…
Memoria founder Howard Hodgson announces his retirement
Howard Hodgson, founder and CEO of Memoria Limited and previous CEO of Hodgson Holdings plc, has announced that he is stepping down from the business due to ill health. Howard has been a…
France: skeletons of 28 horses discovered in ‘astonishing’ 2,000-year-old graves
Archaeologists in France have uncovered nine “astonishing” graves containing the skeletons of 28 horses that were buried about 2,000 years ago, though their precise cause of death remains a mystery. Discovered in Villedieu-sur-Indre,…
Don’t tell the children – new book hopes to reach adults too
Former NAFD President John Adams has teamed up with children’s books author Clare Shaw to produce a new book to encourage wider discussion of death, dying and bereavement called Don’t tell the…
New SAIF President pledges independents’ voice will be heard ‘loud and clear’
Declan Maguire, Director of Glasgow-based Anderson Maguire Funeral Directors, has been elected President of SAIF (the Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors. Declan, whose family business has supported bereaved people across Glasgow…
