As one of the Woodland Trust’s longest standing corporate partners, Golden Charter provides annual donations and actively raises much needed funds to support woodland conservation.
Just 2% of cremations in 2018 were direct, but that number is expected to rise quickly as a number of factors combine to make direct cremation more attractive.
In their efforts to raise public awareness of the issues surrounding death and dying, Dying Matters wants to know: Are we ready?
The annual awareness week is a high-profile campaign to encourage the public to talk with friends and family about their end-of-life wishes, including where they want to die and their funeral plans.
Digital technology sometimes gets a bad press, but it has come to play an important role before, during and after family funerals.
For some people, the answer to rising prices and lengthy waiting times is direct cremation, with an average cost of £1,712, £2,032 less than a standard cremation and £2,559 less than the average funeral according to SunLife.
A keen interest in ‘decluttering’ over the last couple of years comes from our longing for a simple life, and at the centre of this tidying up revolution is Marie Kondo, a Japanese author.
To mark 100 years since the end of the First World War, Golden Charter is sharing some of the Thank You stories sent to us by members of our network of independent funeral directors.
Items like tea bags, tissues, and daylight savings have become part of our daily life, but we rarely give any thought to their wartime heritage. To thank the First World War’s pioneers and recognise the innovations they made we have compiled a list of five inventions for which conflict was crucial in their development.
Just like the cost of living, the cost of dying can vary greatly depending on your location and research shows huge variations in the prices paid for funerals across the regions of the UK.
According to this year’s ‘Cost of Dying’ report from insurance company SunLife, the overall cost of organising a funeral, wake and administering an estate has risen to over £9,000 for the first time ever.
The way British society relates to death and dying has changed greatly over the last 100 years, with the First World War having a huge impact on attitudes to bereavement and mourning.
Former Changing Rooms presenter Carol Smillie has been training to become a humanist celebrant and recently began conducting humanist funerals.
As we get ready to start the third year of our fundraising partnership, we are delighted to announce that our donations have exceeded £195,000 in support of The Royal British Legion and its sister organisation, Poppyscotland.
We think of grief as a uniquely human emotion, but there are examples of animals experiencing suffering from the loss of a ‘loved one’.
Some people would love to be at their own funeral, as a fly on the wall or to join the party. We’re not at the point where we can attend our own send off, but video technology is helping create the illusion.
Golden Charter, the leading independent pre-paid funeral plan provider, welcomed today’s announcement that the Treasury plans to review the regulatory framework used in the market for those pre-arranging their funerals.
Personal memorials are generally low-key. But monuments for some public figures have been designed to dominate the spaces they inhabit.
