FSJ is calling on crematoria operators to help grieving kids get through funerals by giving them a comfort bear to cuddle and keep afterwards, and we’re asking you to help.The idea is…
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Inclusion isn’t optional
W&P Legal head of partnerships and client engagement Steina McKenna explains the law protecting your LGBTQ+ clients’ rightsPride Month is a celebration of courage, visibility and progress, but inclusion absolutely cannot be…
Teddies needed to help kids bear grief
Kingsdown Crematorium in Swindon has launched an urgent appeal for teddy bears to give to grieving children at funerals.The crematorium began presenting bears to bereaved youngsters in 2024 to give them something…
Inside SunLife’s 2025 Cost of Dying Report
If you haven’t had a chance to review SunLife’s 2025 Cost of Dying Report yet, this year’s edition looks at rising funeral price trends, total cost of dying, challenges facing the funeral…
Hillier Funeral Services take delivery of stunning vehicles from Superior UK
Hillier Funeral Services is a family-run, independent funeral director founded by Harold Hillier in 1923, making it one of the oldest businesses in Swindon. For over a century, four generations of the…
Eco-friendly mushroom coffins are transforming farewells
Loop Biotech is the inventor of the world’s first mushroom coffin, urn and funeral carrier.
During their graduation project at Delft University of Technology, founders Bob and Lonneke Hendrikx sought to find a…
Funerals: please involve children and young people, urges charity
The front row funeral seats are the ones that nobody wants to sit at and yet the UK’s first children and young people’s bereavement charity, Winston’s Wish, is keen to remind the…
That’s the way to do it: the Punch & Judy funeral
When Rachael Lee approached West Midlands-based Jennifer Ashe & Son to arrange the funeral of her late mother, Carol Lee, she had a rather unconventional request – a Punch and Judy Puppet…
