This year’s Good Funeral Award finalists
The Good Funeral Awards judges have sifted through hundreds of nominations for this year’s great event and have issued the following longlist. Every category is strong. Winners will be announced at the glittering, gala Good Funeral Awards dinner at Bournville, Birmingham, on 6 September 2014. Who are the judges? We couldn’t possibly say. As with the Oscars and the […]
The science of what works
We’re the last people to gloat over the mortal remains of the Funeral Business Innovation Show, slated to happen at Olympia in November this year. The organisers recently wrote to those who signed up to it: The event was designed to benefit the funeral industry in a big way, at this stage it appears to […]
Nominate someone for a Good Funeral Award now!
The Good Funeral Awards move this year to Bournville, Birmingham. The date: 6 September 2014. Nominations are open. In just three years our little acorn has grown into a flourishing oak. To many funeral directors the Good Funeral Awards might once have looked like an impertinence. Who on earth were we, a bunch of industry […]
Death by chocolate #bovo2014
From the Birmingham Post 25 May 2014: They’re the Oscars you definitely would be seen dead at – and there’s guaranteed to be stiff opposition for a gong. The inaugural Ideal Death Show, a top of the plots for the funeral industry, promises to be a celebration in Birmingham of everything that’s good about slipping […]
#Bovo2014 — 5-7 September
The Good Funeral Awards have moved. Up, of course, several notches, as the prestige of this event grows. And upcountry, too, to Bournville. Bournville is a suburb of Birmingham. It’s where they make the chocs. It’s in the middle of England, easily accessible by road, rail or canal to funeralists of a northerly or anywherelsely […]
Fusion funerals: Cockneys, immigrants and Hackney hipsters
Posted by Richard Rawlinson The story of T. Cribb & Sons is one of business resilience in the cultural quicksand of London’s East End. A family-run firm of undertakers since 1881, its heritage is Cockney: close-knit, white, working class communities celebratory of both their roots and the material trappings of wealth: pie and mash and the […]
Stuart Goodacre, Gravedigger of the Year, on the Beeb
Stuart Goodacre, Gravedigger of the Year 2013, appeared on R4’s Pick of the Week. He is the third winner of a Good Funeral Award to be interviewed on Britain’s premier spoken word wireless station. This isn’t silly-stuff publicity, it’s serious publicity. Start listening at 26.44. Hear the full interview on Radio Lincolnshire here. A good […]
A Good Funeral Award gets you noticed
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A Good Funeral Award gets you noticed
AW Lymn – The Family Funeral Service is acclaimed in the Nottingham Post for its success in the Good Funeral Awards Story here.
The ideal death show
Article in today’s Spectator by Clarissa Tan. (There is no paywall around this article, so I hope the Speccie won’t mind us reproducing it all.) I am in a yurt, talking about death. Everyone is seated in a circle, and I am the next-to-last person to share. The last of the summer sun is shining through the […]
