Bath
Bath’s funeral and bereavement sector combines heritage traditions with modern service innovation across its crematoria, cemeteries, and independent funeral homes. This coverage examines business updates, facility improvements, and community initiatives shaping funeral care in the city and surrounding areas. Funeral Service Times reports on local authority projects, sustainability measures, and market developments affecting Bath’s funeral professionals. Readers gain insight into how providers in this historic city balance tradition, regulation, and evolving client expectations in today’s funeral industry.
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Jan- 2025 -7 JanuaryFuneral Plans
Bath and NE Somerset Council unveils direct cremation offering
Bath and North East Somerset Council has started offering lower-cost direct cremations that do not include a ceremony to accommodate…
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Sep- 2023 -26 SeptemberFuneral Plans
Bristol Council launches consultation on proposed mortuary byelaw
Bristol City Council is seeking views on a proposed byelaw that would make some changes to services provided by Flax…
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Mar- 2023 -23 MarchCommunity
Wildlife trust encourages graveyard wildlife initiative
The Somerset Wildlife Trust is encouraging church communities across the West Somerset region to take part in a wildlife initiative,…
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Sep- 2019 -5 SeptemberBusiness
Bath University to host conference on death, dying and disposal
Over 250 academics, policy-makers and practitioners will come together at the University of Bath in early September for the 14th…
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Aug- 2018 -21 AugustPeople
Watford named as the UK’s most expensive place to die
Funeral directors in Watford are charging 37 percent more than the UK average, reinforcing the notion of the ‘Watford Gap’,…
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Dec- 2016 -12 DecemberCurrent Affairs
Dignity launches national direct cremation service
Dignity plc has launched Simplicity Cremations, a UK-wide national direct cremation service. Simplicity Cremations aims to provide simple, low cost…
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Jan- 2014 -29 January
55% of Social Fund Funeral Payments fall short
The Department for Work and Pensions’ Social Fund Funeral Payment system “lacks coherence in terms of both the process of…
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