Year: 2017
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Sep- 2017 -12 SeptemberCurrent Affairs
Cash still reigns supreme
As the nation gets set to embrace the new style £10 notes, new research from Mintel reveals cash is king for…
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12 SeptemberCurrent Affairs
FSB Small Business Awards open for entries
The FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards 2018 are now open for entries. The awards will celebrate the best of the UK’s 5.5…
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8 SeptemberTechnology/Equipment
Lancashire moves closer to opening digital autopsy facility
Plans have been signed off for a Digital Autopsy Facility (DAF), which will offer non-invasive post mortems to bereaved families…
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8 SeptemberCurrent Affairs
Funeral directors’ double charity success
After only starting running and cycling in the last 18 months, David and Beth Bray, of R J Bray &…
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5 SeptemberCurrent Affairs
Co-op Funeralcare appoints Robert Maclachlan as managing director
Robert Maclachlan has been appointed managing director of Co-op Funeralcare. Robert previously held the national operations director role, overseeing Co-op’s…
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5 SeptemberCurrent Affairs
Central England Co-operative appoints new trading executive
Central England Co–operative has announced the appointment of Matt Birch as the Society’s trading executive; a vacancy created due to Tony Carroll,…
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4 SeptemberCurrent Affairs
Funeral singing agency is ‘the only of its kind’
A funeral singing agency is the ‘only agency of its kind within the UK’, according creators Briony Rawle and Penelope Shipley.…
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1 SeptemberCurrent Affairs
Grave tending company announces expansion
Grave Care International Ltd has acquired the long-running family business, Grave Concern, based in Essex. Grave Care International, which was…
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1 SeptemberCurrent Affairs
SAIF welcomes Royal London report
The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF) has welcomed the Royal London’s 2017 National Funeral Cost Index report…
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Aug- 2017 -31 AugustCurrent Affairs
Celebrant predicts ‘the end of traditional services’
A leading celebrant has highlighted the need for his profession to adapt to a growing trend within the funeral profession,…
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