Funeral Director
Funeral directors play a central role in the UK’s funeral profession, managing arrangements, supporting families, and ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards. This tag features content relevant to their day-to-day responsibilities, including industry news, operational guidance, regulatory updates, service innovations, business strategy, supplier developments, and professional practice insights. Funeral Service Times provides specialist reporting to support funeral directors in delivering dignified, efficient, and compassionate services within a changing sector.
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May- 2021 -20 MayFeatures
‘We All Know How This Ends’: Discussing death and dying through writing
For many of us, death and dying can be difficult to engage with, a final taboo in the lives we…
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14 MayFeatures
Soapbox: Prepayment plans and the wholesale funeral
There is actually no such thing as a wholesale cost for a funeral, it’s just a term adopted by the …
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10 MayFeatures
Not talking about death could mean ‘funeral poverty’ for families
The term “funeral poverty” is described to coin the ever-increasing number of families who struggle to pay for funerals for…
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Apr- 2021 -30 AprilEvents
Cole Funeral Directors nominated for Business Growth Awards
Cole Funeral Directors has been nominated in three separate categories as part of the Business Growth Awards. The funeral director…
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9 AprilCoronavirus
FD calls for further Covid research to ease pain of bereavement
London funeral director Paul McLean of Integrity Funeral Care is calling for government-backed research into the risks of Covid-19 being…
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1 AprilBusiness
Dignity backs Whiley as top shareholder moves to oust him as chairman
Phoenix Asset Management, one of Dignity’s top shareholders, has served a requisition notice seeking to remove Clive Whiley as the…
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Mar- 2021 -5 MarchPeople
Funeral director doc to feature on Channel 4 News
Gary Valentine, a funeral director based in Greater London, is set to feature on Channel 4 News as part of…
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3 MarchFeatures
The Three-Way Relationship – Celebrants, funeral directors and families
What do I want from a funeral director? As a celebrant the first thing is obvious, I want a call…
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Feb- 2021 -16 FebruaryFeatures
We need to talk more
There are probably few people in the world more at ease than funeral directors when it comes to talking about…
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9 FebruaryBusiness
Westerleigh Group announces new build crematorium
Westerleigh Group has announced that Sirhowy Valley Crematorium has been built. The new site became operational on 4 February 2021…
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