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

Douch Family Funeral Directors is marking Marcella McDonagh’s two decades of service as a funeral director at the Dorset -based company, reflecting on the changes in a profession that was once ...

The Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM) has called on the government to clarify whether cemetery and crematorium staff are officially considered key workers, as the Covid-19 ...

Business leaders often put their own success down to the strength of their networks. This is apparent across various business practices but holds a particular importance in community-focused ...

Charlie Field, the deputy chairman of CPJ Field, one of the UK’s oldest funeral directors and CEO of Seker Tech, the funeral management software provider, has received royal recognition for service to ...

Funeral Partners has announced that Gibson’s Funeral Services in County Durham, has joined its network. The family business dates as far back as 1860, when ...

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

Features The changing nature of funeralcare The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals that pre-pandemic CO2 levels accounted for 80% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. To tackle this issue, ...

Variety Funerals has announced that it has achieved authorisation and regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), making it the first fully female-owned funeral plan company in the UK to ...

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 ...

Westerleigh Group has announced that it is set to open a brand-new Crematorium which will serve the communities in and around Herne Bay, Whitstable and Canterbury.