Memorials Replace Big Funerals – The Times

Memorials Replace Big Funerals – The Times

Today’s Times features our second generation memorials team at work, providing lasting legacies for loved ones at a time when funeral attendance is so restricted....

Tim Purves reflects on the effects of Covid-19 – WCC Podcast

In a podcast for the World Council of Churches, Tim Purves comments on the profound affect Covid-19 has had on funerals. He outlines his concern for the bereaved in months to come and you can hear an excerpt of the interview below. However, if you would like to listen...
How to support someone grieving in a post-coronavirus world?

How to support someone grieving in a post-coronavirus world?

Grief just got harder. In this blog, MD James Morris, explains how the new normal post Covid has just raised the stakes for bereaved families up and down the country. Before the coronavirus pandemic, when I gave talks to schools, curates, hospice and nursing...
Making it count

Making it count

  During the harshest of times, we arranged the final journey of Mr Gordon Reid as friends, colleagues, loved ones and even strangers on the street, pay their respects to a much loved cabbie from the capital. BBC Good Morning Scotland (2.35-2.40)...
Stephen Jardine on BBC Radio Scotland interviewed with Tim Purves

Stephen Jardine on BBC Radio Scotland interviewed with Tim Purves

This morning our Chairman Tim Purves spoke to Stephen Jardine on BBC Radio Scotland about the changes to funerals and the challenges that we have faced in recent days. Although funerals have changed significantly, we are committed to helping families plan a dignified...