The GFG Blog
2018Mar
Collaboration not competition.
Fran Hall
Mar
29
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According to Twitter, the website and an e-mail bulletin sent out yesterday, the Good Funeral Awards will be taking place this year in Bournemouth in September. We think it worth noting that the Good Funeral Guide is no longer involved with these events and will not be attending.
Other funeral ‘homes’ are also available…
Fran Hall
Mar
28
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Dying Matters, the former NCPC coalition, now under the wings of Hospice UK, sent out an e-mail bulletin this week with an update on this year’s Dying Matters Awareness Week, presumably to most of their 32,000 members. Top feature in the bulletin was the large Co-op logo and blurb shown
Something for the weekend? Some good reading – and another book.
Fran Hall
Mar
23
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At GFG Towers we do like a good book, and recently we have indulged our book buying habit rather a lot – a pile of our recent acquisitions is shown above, all thoroughly well worth a read for anyone with an interest in dying and death. Last week, our
Breaking the silence – a guest post
Fran Hall
Mar
19
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Guest post Ed’s note – the writer of this blog post is known to us, however their identity is being withheld for reasons that are obvious. ‘The subject of bullying is in the media a lot these days, especially bullying within the work place. Most fair and just people think
2018Jan
Lifting the lid on coffin prices
Fran Hall
Jan
29
11 comments
These are turbulent times in the world of funerals, and we were delighted to hear last week of another innovative idea – a funeral director prepared to offer EXACTLY the same coffins that your friendly high street (corporate) undertaker has in their range, at a realistic price! Gone are
Dignity Directors Divest Themselves
Fran Hall
Jan
23
7 comments
We’re not experts in stocks and shares here at GFG Towers, not by a long way, but even to us the sight of lots of top executives in a company selling their shares in the months before issuing profit warnings and presiding over a slump of around 50% in
St. Margaret’s Hospice Funerals
Fran Hall
Jan
22
3 comments
It’s here! Today’s the day that the first Hospice Funerals branch in the UK opens for business. The people of Taunton have been watching the refurbishment of the former charity shop over the last few weeks, as the grey paint (not dark and forbidding) was applied to the exterior
Harrison Funeral Home
Fran Hall
Jan
21
2 comments
It’s always sad to hear that an independently owned funeral business has been sold to one of the big three corporate chains. It’s even more so when the company concerned is one that has been on the Good Funeral Guide ‘Recommended’ list for years. So when we were told by
2017Dec
Another year older and closer to death..
Fran Hall
Dec
31
6 comments
So that was 2017, over and done with. It was quite a year in Funeralworld. We lost one of the brightest stars, the founder of the Death Cafe movement, Jon Underwood, who died on 27th June 2017, tragically young at 44. Jon’s legacy is not only his two
HOSPICE FUNERALS CAN BE THE BEST, NO QUESTION
Charles
Dec
19
4 comments
Hat’s off to Ann Lee, I say. She’s the courageous CEO of St Margaret’s Hospice, Taunton who has launched a joined-up funeral service with the twin goals of caring for her patients in death and earning some much-needed money to pay for the care her hospice extends to the living.