Good Funeral Guide presents... Funeral Tuesdays - So you want to work in the #DeathBiz?

Tuesday, October 11, 2016
7:00 PM 10:00 PM 19:00 22:00

Sutton House Homerton High Street London, England, E9 United Kingdom (map)

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THE GOOD FUNERAL GUILD PRESENTS... FUNERAL TUESDAYS - SO YOU WANT TO WORK IN THE #DEATHBIZ?

Join the Good Funeral Guild at Sutton House during Life. Death. Whatever. for Funeral Tuesdays.

So you think you might want to work in the #DeathBiz? Join the Good Funeral Guild to hear from a fascinating panel of people who work in all aspects of funeral service. From mortuary technicians, funeral directors, crematorium superintendents to Funeralworld CEOs.

There'll be time for questions.

Everyone is welcome.

Deathly cocktails will be available from the bar in the Tudor Kitchen.

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Zeleka Sutherland - Final Farewell Planner

Zeleka Sutherland is the Founder of Your White Room, and the UK’s 1st Farewell planner. She creates tailor-made funeral plans for the living, which inform and support those arranging the funeral in the event of their death.

Having planned everything from a fairground funeral reception to a midnight picnic in a park, Zeleka believes that every funeral should be unique and by planning for it whilst living we give those we leave behind a better experience of loss, death and grief.

www.yourwhiteroom.com

Allistair Anderson - Funeral Director

Allistair has 20 years experience of working in a wide variety of roles with some of the best local and national undertakers, cemeteries and crematoria in London. He regards it as the highest honour to be able to serve people at one of the most difficult, life-changing moments in their own lives. He believes in empowering people, so they have control and are able to have the funeral they want and need.

Allistair is the founder of the Compassionate Funerals, a Good Funeral Guide recommended funeral director in London.

Lara-Rose Iredale - Anatomical Pathology Technologist

Lara-Rose is a Trainee Anatomical Pathology Technologist at a hospital mortuary in London.

Jeremy Field - President of the NAFD

Jeremy Field is the youngest person to be appointed to the role of President of the National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD), he follows in his father Colin’s footsteps who held the role 29 years ago.

Day to day Jeremy is a managing director of funeral directors CPJ Field, based in Burgess Hill, which last year celebrated its 325 year anniversary.

There is a strong focus on family and Jeremy himself has three children which also leads to a busy home life.

Something the family firmly believe and say a lot is that they are merely caretakers of the business for the next generation, which is probably why they have been in business since 1690. “Taking on the family business comes with much responsibility. But if you can make an impact and leave the business in a better condition than when you inherited it, you’ve done a good job” However, it’s more than being a funeral director, it’s about understanding people, having a conversation, remembering that “because every life is unique”.

Peter Taylor - Manager of GreenAcres Woodland Burial

Peter is the manager of GreenAcres Woodland Burial Ground in the Chilterns and Heatherley Wood.

About the Good Funeral Guild
The Good Funeral Guild is brought to you by the Good Funeral Guide - your trusted, independent, not-for-profit information resource for funeral advice. The Guild is made up of people from the funeral service and many other disciplines, who believe that funerals can be done differently.

We know that you’re out there; we know that there are many of you. We get e-mails and phone calls daily from people like you who want funerals to be different. Better. More effective at what they are supposed to be for.

Some of you are working in the existing funeral industry. Some of you have created new businesses and are trying a different way of undertaking. Some of you are celebrants or ministers. Some of you are on the sidelines in other roles that funerals brush up against. Some of you are just interested in the whole fascinating world of death. We think that there should be a way of getting all of you together, with all your different viewpoints and voices, a way of uniting the myriad of individuals in one association with a common goal – to improve funerals for everyone.

The mission of the Good Funeral Guild is not to reflect change in funerary practices but to be the change.

http://www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk/home/the-good-funeral-guild/

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Good Funeral Guide presents... Funeral Tuesdays - So you want to work in the #DeathBiz?

THE GOOD FUNERAL GUILD PRESENTS... FUNERAL TUESDAYS - SO YOU WANT TO WORK IN THE #DEATHBIZ?