The GFG Blog
2020Mar
Please, stop now
Fran Hall
Mar
27
28 comments
Someone needs to say it. With the heaviest of hearts, today we are going against everything that the Good Funeral Guide has become known for over the years, and calling for funerals to be stopped completely. Now. Today. Just stop. The decision to exempt funerals from the current ban
Dark times
Fran Hall
Mar
26
3 comments
Guest post by Jo Williamson from Albany Funerals BBC Breakfast today (2:22:02) “I wanted to share this, mainly because it’s the first time I’ve heard or seen anything about funerals on TV since the beginning of the outbreak. Nothing so far addressing the sheer devastation we face having to
Time to think the unthinkable
Fran Hall
Mar
16
3 comments
These are unprecedented times. Across the world, the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps everything before it, heralded by fear and confusion at conflicting government advice, with daily updates of the tens of thousands of people who have become ill, and rising numbers of deaths. And while much concern is rightly directed
One more thing
Fran Hall
Mar
11
1 comment
It feels almost ridiculous to be asking readers of this blog to find the time to read and respond to the second set of working papers from the Competition and Markets Authority at this time of national crisis. We’re fully aware that all sensible funeral directors are likely to
Covid-19 – official advice
Fran Hall
Mar
02
3 comments
After today’s COBRA meeting, the prime minister warned that the spread of coronavirus Covid-19 is likely to become more significant, with government sources warning that it could be “months rather than weeks” before the outbreak peaks. In the absence of any new information or guidance, and while we await the
2020Feb
Comments please
Fran Hall
Feb
25
No Comments
The Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into the funeral market is steadily progressing, with 22 working papers published since the end of January. It is clear that the 25-strong team working on the Market Investigation are doing a detailed and thorough job as they forensically analyse the huge amount of
A couple of thoughts
Fran Hall
Feb
05
No Comments
Those additional observations on the FSCSR consultation we mentioned in our previous post this week: 1. At the GFG, while we welcome any improvements in the funeral industry Codes of Practice, we despair at the length of time it has taken NAFD and SAIF to come up with revisions to existing industry
Pay attention at the back!
Fran Hall
Feb
03
No Comments
It’s a busy time in funeralworld. Last week, the Competition and Markets Authority uploaded a whole suite of working papers and other documents (21 in total) to the website providing information about their ongoing Market Investigation into funerals, seeking comment on their findings so far by 27thFebruary. On the same day, with
2019Oct
Funeral Link
Fran Hall
Oct
11
No Comments
There’s a tremendously interesting publication from the University of Dundee by researcher Ruth Bickerton and Dr. Carlo Morelli which we’ve been reading over the last few days. It came out earlier this year, and is called Funeral Poverty in Dundee – Funeral Link Evaluation. It’s about Funeral Link, a charity
Making a choice you never wanted to make – funerals
Fran Hall
Oct
03
2 comments
We are privileged to be able to publish a guest blog from Tracy Douthwaite today. Tracy works providing training and talks about mental health awareness and wellbeing. Her husband Steve is pictured above, in his garden last summer. Steve died earlier this year, and Tracy found finding a funeral director a
