Funeral Director of the Year
Sarah Clarke of Arka Original Funerals
Most Promising New Funeral Director of the Year – sponsored by the Church of England
Sarah Stuart and Lel Wallace of Wallace Stewart
Green Funeral Director of the Year sponsored by GreenAcres
Tracy O’Leary, Woodland Wishes
Association of Green Funeral Directors Green Funeral Director of the Year
Gordon and Alison Tulley, Respect Woodland Green Burial Parks
Funeral Arranger of the Year
Angela Bailey of Harrison Funeral Home
Celebrant of the Year
Dee Ryding
Embalmer of the Year
Bob Dyer of A Dyer & Sons and Midland Embalming Service
Gravedigger of the Year
Crematorium Attendant or Manager of the Year
Peter Rodwel, Seven Hills
Eternal Slumber Coffin Supplier of the Year
Best Alternative Hearse
Claire Brooks, Volkswagen Funerals
Cemetery of the Year
Blossom d’Amour Award for Funeral Floristry
Cassandra Thompson of Stems, New Covent Garden
Most Significant Contribution to the Understanding of Death
Jon Underwood, Death Café
Best Internet Bereavement Resource
Lifetime Achievement Award
Well done everyone
Huge congratulations all of you! Such worthy winners!
Congratulations to all the winners & nominees, it was a great evening!
Congratulations to all the award winners and finalists. Tony.
The starter was the real winner…love to all.
So wish I could have been there.
An amazing weekend. Well done all.
This conference and awards ceremony is a highlight of my year. Great group of folks all so willing to share. Truly like a big huggable family.
We’ll be reflecting on it in our September newsletter. (Due out today/tomorrow if the train wifi doesn’t fail me…)
Bx
Thanks so much for my award (Most Significant Contribution to the Understanding of Death) which is a source of massive happiness and pride to me. I think it is great to have an award of this type and especially cool to have won when the other nominees (Barbara Chalmers from Final Fling and Chantal Lockey) are so amazing.
Congratulations to everyone – the whole weekend was amazing – informative, exciting and buzzing with great people, new ideas and time catching up with old friends. Many thanks Charles and Brian for sparking such a marvellous event.
What a fabulous weekend! As well as the socialising, the awards dinner and the wonderful speakers, I really enjoyed the exhibition. Mr C – could we please have more information on those gorgeous Viking ships? I’d like my husband to have one. In the fullness of time. Of course.
Dear Kitty Those splendid Viking ash-ships are made by the lovely Cath Pratley at Sturminster Newton in Dorset. Aren’t they marvellous? If there’d been a best-in-show competition, I think they would have won hands down (whatever that means). If you attended a talk or death cafe in one of the yurts, Cath makes them as well. You can see her website here – http://greenwoodfutures-willowcoffins.co.uk/pages/viking-ship-ash-casket.php You can certainly buy one now in advance of your husband ‘falling asleep’. Be sure to store it in a dry place indoors. Perhaps you could use it as a fruit basket? If it gets damp… Read more »
Great! Thank you Charles. His birthday’s in less than a fortnight so I’d better get a move on.
What a delightful memento mori, Kitty! I think he will be delighted. To make it even more ‘real’ for him you could fill it with cat litter — as much as would fill an old-fashioned sweet jar.
I hope he will pronounce it his best birthday present ever.
Let’s just hope kitty doesn’t get to it before he sees it…or he may take it the wrong way.
Thanks so much for the award of Best Cemetery of the Year for Clandon Wood. The whole team is delighted and it is the icing on the cake for what has been an extraordinary year, finalists in the Toast of Surrey Business Awards, voted Best Natural Burial ground in the UK, a Green Flag award and now this. Amazing! Thank you so much to you Charles and all at the Good Funeral Awards for your hard work and efforts in putting on this event. Also a very well done to all the other finalists.
For my first year at these awards and the weekend event it was an absolute pleasure and honour to meet so many friendly, talented and innovative people in funeral services. Thank you for a memorable experience. Sorry if I have missed it but who won the cake competition?
A Great event,big thanks to all involved in putting in on .
Very nice to meet you all, and well done to all the nominees.
A big up to all my customers.many thanks,
What a wonderful weekend, with wonderful people. I still cant believe Woodland Wishes won our category ! Well done to all the good funeral professionals including those who didn’t get nominated as I am sure there are lots in the UK.
Do we really have to wait til next year to meet up again, wouldn’t it be nice to see everyone together sooner….. Tracy x
Congratulations everyone!
How we missed thee, Kristie!
Dear Charles and everyone at the GFG – Thank you so much for my award of Best Funeral Director! I was so thrilled to have won this. The time we spent at Bournville was a real shot in the arm, lovely people and wonderful conversation. Now back to work! Best wishes to everyone there and especially our customers who voted for me and Arka Original Funerals. Sarah xxx
Thank you to everyone for an amazing weekend. My eyes are still out on stalks from all the amazing stalls and ideas that the show generated.
I really enjoyed myself.
From your distant friend in Seattle – congratulations to all! Would have loved to be there amongst you glittery deatheraties.