Training

​​A.W. Lymn introduce drone services at funerals

A.W. Lymn The Family Funeral Service has introduced a drone service in a bid to allow families the chance to…

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Tributes launches bereavement training initiative

The West Sussex-based group provides a range of products and services to both the funeral and pet sectors, assisting funeral…

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Pure Cremation donates £1,500 to St Andrews’s First Aid

Pure Cremation has donated £1,500 to St Andrew’s First Aid, Scotland’s only dedicated first aid charity, to help them achieve…

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Making our industry more diverse

Back in October, Funeral Service Times kindly published an article I’d written for Black History Month bemoaning the lack of…

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Co-op Funeralcare welcomes 3000th recruit

Co-op Funeralcare, which for the past seven years has been one of the UK’s leading employers of apprentices, has welcomed…

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Managing New Forest Crematorium: From retail to bereavement

What is your employment history? I have worked in retail since I was 17 years old. I started out as…

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Funeral Partners increases employee mental health support

Funeral Partners has announced it is increasing its measures to support the mental health of employees, following a “challenging” 18-months…

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‘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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Fosters Family Funeral Directors partners with SAMH to support workers

Fosters Family Funeral Directors has partnered with the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH), to provide virtual positive mental health…

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Bereaved families lose £171m a year cancelling subscriptions

Grieving families spend over seven million hours a year cancelling subscription services following the death of a loved one, which…

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