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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Mar- 2020 -25 MarchFeatures
Why it’s more important than ever to embrace digital disruption to keep your customers engaged
With COVID-19 causing national lockdown, it’s even more important for you to be easily accessible online. Even under normal circumstances,…
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23 MarchCoronavirus advice
Coronavirus: Advice to celebrants
Encouraging communication with clients and Funeral Directors, and ensuring financial stability and mental wellbeing, is the advice that has been…
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19 MarchBusiness
Coles Funeral Director’s Bereavement Support Hub to provide aid amid Covid-19
Cardiff-based Coles Funeral Director’s is offering its support to the local community in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. The…
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10 MarchBusiness
Frank Dooley & Son Funeral Directors joins Funeral Partners
Merseyside-based Frank Dooley and Son Funeral Directors has announced it has joined the Funerals Partners family of funeral homes, which…
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2 MarchBusiness
York Council to create funeral hardship to help struggling families
A funeral hardship fund to help families struggling to pay for a funeral could be launched by the City of…
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Feb- 2020 -25 FebruaryFuneral Plans
South West ‘most expensive’ region for cremation, study finds
The most expensive region for cremation is the South West of England, where the average cost of cremation is £884,…
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20 FebruaryBusiness
Quaker Social Action urges directors to sign transparent pricing pledge
Quaker Social Action has called for funeral directors to providing providing transparent pricing by signing the Fair Funerals pledge. The pledge…
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6 FebruaryEconomy
Scottish Government welcomes funeral support payment increase
The Scottish Government has announced it will match the ‘other expenses’ funeral benefit with the rest of the UK, increasing…
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5 FebruaryFeatures
Finding the next generation of embalmers
The funeral industry offers a wide variety of roles, but none so demanding and requiring such a diverse skill set,…
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Jan- 2020 -28 JanuaryBusiness
SAIF claim SunLife Cost of Dying report is’ ‘seriously flawed’
Independent funeral directors have argued that recent research on funeral prices by SunLife is “seriously flawed” and has potentially overstated…
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