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The Good Funeral Weekender


The Good Funeral Guide presents... The Good Funeral Weekender!

We're delighted to invite you to a weekend showcasing the best of the UK funeral industry at the National Trust's Sutton House.  From brilliant funeral directors to artisan stonemasons, innovative coffin makers, memorial art workshops and woodland burial grounds, we've handpicked a selection of Good Funeral Guide recommended funeral services for you to experience.  Check out the hot pink hearse in Breaker's Yard!

Come along to see the Life. Death. Whatever. exhibition, which will be installed throughout the Tudor manor house alongside the funeral exhibition.  Visit the interactive coffin playroom, pay your respects at the LDW grave by Stoneletters and chat to some of the nicest people in the funeral industry.  

There'll be popup workshops and talks throughout the weekend. 

There'll also be deathly cocktails available from our afterlife themed bar in the Tudor Kitchen, and life affirming tea and cake in the Georgian Tea Room.

LINEUP
Saturday October 15th
12.30 - Washing Our Dead, The Intimate Experience of Compassionate Care - Allistair Anderson, The Compassionate Funeral Company
1.30 - Affordable Funerals - Lucy Coulbert, Individual Funeral Company
2.30 - What is a good funeral director anyway? - Fran Hall, the Good Funeral Guide
3.30 - Digital Death: Creative Approaches to Living with the Dead Online - Stacey Pitsillides

Sunday October 16th
12.30 - Washing Our Dead, The Intimate Experience of Compassionate Care - Allistair Anderson, The Compassionate Funeral Company
2.30 - What is a good funeral director anyway? - Fran Hall, the Good Funeral Guide
3.30 - The Future of Death - Panagiotis Pentaris


EXHIBITORS

Featured
Harrison Funeral Home
Harrison Funeral Home

Harrisons is a Good Funeral Guide recommended funeral director with branches in North London.  Modern and flexible yet with traditional values, they are a breath of fresh air.
http://www.harrisonfuneralhome.co.uk/

Funeralbooker
Funeralbooker

Funeralbooker is a straightforward way to organise a funeral online. 

https://funeralbooker.com/

GreenAcres Woodland Burials - Epping Forest
GreenAcres Woodland Burials - Epping Forest

GreenAcres is a woodland burial site close to Epping Forest  Set in 52 acres of beautiful mixed woodland close, the stunning facilities help to make this one of the most idyllic places for a very special goodbye in and around Essex.

https://www.greenacrescelebrate.co.uk/park/epping/

Bellacouche
Bellacouche

Yuli Somme (Bellacouche) is responsible for the Leafcocoon - a natural wool eco coffin. It consists of a woollen shroud, enfolded in layers of beautiful wool felt, supported by a strong wood and felt base with six carrying handles.  
http://bellacouche.com/soft-eco-coffin/

Time to Altar Grief with Emma Curtis
Time to Altar Grief with Emma Curtis

Time to Altar Grief is a healing altar for everyone, 'whatever you believe in' created by Emma Curtis, Minister 'without religion' and grief specialist.

Bring a picture of someone you miss and create a beautiful memorial card that will become part of an ongoing, secular altar, honouring your loved one in a community memorial. As we place our cards within the growing altar-for-all, our grief is altered.

An altar creates change.  As we honour our loss, we feel also the sweetness of our memories. Emotions need motion. The process of creating a memorial and speaking our loved one’s name is precious and healing. 

In the words of Terry Pratchett: "A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.”  

http://extraordinaryceremonies.emmacurtis.com/

Green's Carriage Masters
Green's Carriage Masters

Green's Carriage Masters is an independent family-run business based in Southeast London, supplying vehicles to the funeral trade nationwide.  They have a vast privately-owned fleet of black vehicles, together with a number of alternative hearses and limousines in 'hot-pink', white and silver.  Just for fun they have trialled a Union Jack tribute hearse too.
http://greenscarriages.com/

Compassionate Funerals
Compassionate Funerals

Founded in 2012, Compassionate Funerals is renowned for providing Compassion and understanding during one of life's most difficult time. Compassionate Funerals are dedicated to serving bereaved families and friends who have recently lost a loved one and require exceptional funeral care. We work together with the bereaved to deliver the perfect send off for their loved one whilst making sure that a high level of personalised, compassionate care remains at the heart of the funeral process.

Compassionate Funerals also provide public engagement events, such as hosting Death Cafes, End of Life Care Education and Training where we interact with local communities to raise awareness of death, dying and bereavement. We work closely with care homes, home care agencies, GPs, hospitals, hospices, social services and End of Life Care organisations. We offer a holistic bespoke funeral service, pre-paid funeral service and memorial work.

http://www.compassionatefunerals.co.uk/

ABOUT THE GOOD FUNERAL GUIDE
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OPENING TIMES
Saturday October 15th from 12 - 5pm
Sunday October 16th from 12 - 5pm

ADMISSION
No booking necessary.  Just turn up.
Standard entrance to the National Trust applies which includes admission to the Life. Death. Whatever. exhibition and the GFG Weekender.  National Trust members are free.

Earlier Event: October 14
Death in the Afternoon, in the Evening!
Later Event: October 15
In Umbra by Twice Shy Theatre