The National Association of Funerals today has added its support to the launch of the Fair Funeral Pledge by Quaker Social Action. Alan Slater MBE, Chief Executive Officer of the NAFD, said: “The NAFD broadly supports the principles of the QSA Fair Funeral Pledge. We are particularly pleased to note that it incorporates much of…
Hot on the heels of the Association’s win for Funeral Director Monthly at the inaugural Association Excellence Awards, the National Association of Funeral Directors has been advised that it has also been shortlisted in three categories for the prestigious 2015 Trade Association Forum (TAF) Best Practice awards. The National Funeral Exhibition has been shortlisted for…
It might be considered a ‘dead good’ job by some, and now a new online training course giving people an insight into funeral directing has been launched to capitalise on the growing interest in the industry, which is partly due to high profile storylines in television soap operas and dramas. The 2015 Funeral Service Awareness course…
“My father has always told me, just as his father and grandfather told him, that you care for a family as if it was your own family…to that family it is THE funeral, it’s not just another funeral.” (Paul Cuthell, Thomas Cuthell & Sons, Falkirk) The National Association of Funeral Directors has launched The NAFD…
A new guide which prepares people on what to expect when someone is dying has today been published by the National Council for Palliative Care. ‘What to expect when someone important to you is dying’ aims to demystify the dying process so that people better understand the changes that can happen to their loved ones…
Today (March 18 2015), the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne took to the dispatch box in the House of Commons to deliver the final Budget of this Parliament and, possibly, his final budget full stop. The Chancellor was undoubtedly under pressure from his political colleagues to deliver an election campaign-boosting set of measures that…
