The GFG Blog
2018Jul
If it seems too good to be true…. the sad end of the promise of Ecolation
Fran Hall
Jul
23
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Over time, we have received a number of well informed comments on a post written back in February 2017 on Ecolation, the supposedly innovative alternative to cremation. It became apparent that we, along with many others, had been taken in by a sales pitch for something that wasn’t at
Going Green at Brookwood Cemetery
Fran Hall
Jul
22
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It’s been twenty five years since the inspirational Ken West MBE opened the very first natural burial ground at Carlisle cemetery, and here at GFG Towers we felt that this landmark anniversary needed to be acknowledged. Members of the Good Funeral Guild felt so too, and, under gentle pressure
2018Jun
Those whacky funerals….
Fran Hall
Jun
18
1 comment
Guest post from Jonathan Taylor, independent funeral celebrant in Totnes. (That’s not his photo above, by the way.) We are always delighted to receive guest posts from long time readers of the GFG blog, and this one is very topical given the obsession with ‘whacky funerals’
We’d like just a few minutes of your time…
Fran Hall
Jun
07
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Dear reader We’d like to ask for a few minutes of your time to respond to two important funeral related consultations. The first is the Funeral Market Study by the Competition and Markets Authority. This forms part of a year long study into the state of the British funeral
2018May
A night (and a morning) at the movies
Fran Hall
May
23
1 comment
Here at GFG Towers we rarely get a night out, so it was rather a shock to get to go to the cinema twice in one weekend – so much so that we’ve only just recovered enough to write about it. (One film is out there available for you
The slightly incapacitated Mr Richard Sage..
Fran Hall
May
16
6 comments
The GFG blog has long taken an interest in the goings on of Mark Kerbey, aka Richard Sage. In fact there have been 18 blog posts since 2008 about his antics – see here So when we received a couple of e-mails from long standing readers pointing us to this
How much do funerals really matter?
Fran Hall
May
14
4 comments
Team GFG are honoured to have been invited to be part of an advisory committee to support a pioneering new study that is being launched today to try and discover how much funerals really matter. And we are happy to help spread the word about it to encourage
To SAIF – an open letter from a member
Fran Hall
May
04
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An open letter to SAIF, the National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors from Cara Mair, Director, ARKA Original Funerals, sent 4th May 2018. Dear all at SAIF I write this to you as a longstanding member of SAIF, in the hope that you will not
2018Apr
Dead and Gone
Fran Hall
Apr
17
3 comments
We’ve been pondering on an important subject. In 21st century Britain, many of us may not have seen or spent time with the body of someone who has died. We may not have witnessed the profound absence of person in the familiar features of a corpse, nor experienced the
