The GFG Blog
2020Mar
One more thing
Fran Hall
Mar
11
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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 be
Covid-19 – official advice
Fran Hall
Mar
02
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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 revealing
2020Feb
Comments please
Fran Hall
Feb
25
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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 information
A couple of thoughts
Fran Hall
Feb
05
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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
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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
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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 set
Making a choice you never wanted to make – funerals
Fran Hall
Oct
03
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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
2019Sep
Happy birthday for yesterday Death Cafe
Fran Hall
Sep
25
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There’s a beautiful little video on Death Cafe’s website celebrating eight years since the first Death Cafe took place in London. Watch it here. In the eight years since our friend Jon and his mum, Sue held the very first Death Cafe, more than 9,200 Death Cafes have been held,
Funeral experts by experience
Fran Hall
Sep
24
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Every now and then the GFG gets an invitation that it can’t turn down. Being invited to be involved in a research project exploring what matters to people when it comes to funerals was just such an invitation. We were delighted to help in a very small way, and it
Global Climate Strike Day
Fran Hall
Sep
20
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The GFG is downing tools today in solidarity with everyone taking part in Global Climate Strike Day. Young climate strikers are calling on everyone to join massive climate strikes and a week of climate justice actions starting on 20th September. People all over the world will use their power to
