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When a loved one passes away there are lots of things to consider when planning their final goodbye, and one such consideration is which charity should be selected to raise donations for in their name. The family of Carole Clark from Liverpool chose to ask for donations to Sarcoma UK here on funeral-notices.co.uk, raising an incredible £15,906, plus over £1,000 in Gift Aid.

Welcome to the second in a series of blogs designed to help you make positive changes to your life. Part two of our life skills series takes a look at how to write a cover letter to impress a future employer. The jobs market offers plenty of opportunities right now so if you were thinking of a career change or are new to employment, there's never been a better time to start. There are hundreds of generic cover letter guides and formats online but below are some of our top tips that will really impress a recruiter and almost certainly guarantee you that interview.

When a loved one dies there are lots of things to consider when planning their final goodbye. One such consideration is the charity to request donations be made to in their name. Creating a charitable collection in memory used to be something people arranged to take place at the funeral. In recent years the use of online donation services has increased rapidly. At Funeral Notices we noticed this change in the way people collect money for charity, noting that the number of notices we publish with online donation requests went up exponentially during the pandemic. This upward trend has continued into 2022. The type of notice we publish has changed too. Whereas every notice used to also appear in a regional newspaper and online, we now publish an increasing number of notices to the website only. In September 2022, 11.5% of all death announcement notices published on funeral-notices.co.uk only appeared on the website and not in a newspaper. This figure is expected to rise each month moving forward. In this blog we will take a look at an online notice that attracted thousands of people to view the notice and make a donation in memory.

Welcome to the first in a series of blogs designed to help you make positive changes to your life. Our first in the series of life skills blogs looks at blogging. Blogging is a great way to express yourself and many people find it quite cathartic. If you've ever wanted to write a blog there's never been a better time than now. Today's blog will give you a few pointers on how to get started.

When it comes to making choices, many people are considering the impact on the environment as importantly as financial costs. Funerals are no exception. In today's blog we will explore the environmental impact of funeral cars and the increasing trend towards electric vehicles in the profession.

World Mental Health Day is organised by the World Health Organisation and takes place on 10th October every year. The theme for this year is 'Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority'.

Most people struggle with loneliness at some point in their lives. One way to combat loneliness is to join a regular activity with others, which allows you to socialise as well as trying something new, or maybe even furthering one of your existing hobbies. Here are some activities you can take up to help combat loneliness:

Most of us recognise a funeral notice as being an obituary or an intimation that is published in a local newspaper. At Funeral Notices we have been publishing these types of notices for over 100 years. Over the last few years we have seen an increase in the number of online notices we publish. These notices do not go into a newspaper, rather they appear online at funeral-notices.co.uk. Every newspaper notice also appears on our website - meaning they benefit from our online audience as well as those who read the newspaper. As online notices are comparatively new, we thought we would take a moment to talk about the benefits to grieving families of a notice on Funeral Notices.

It's nice to put a face to a name, our Meet the Team blog series does just that. As part of Reach Plc, funeral-notices.co.uk have been publishing notices in local newspapers for over 100 years. Amelia has been a key part of the team here at Funeral Notices for almost 12 years. When not at work, Amelia loves spending time with her family and is blessed to live by the sea. The beach is her happy place. Life is very busy as Amelia has a young family, but when she can, she enjoys good food with her good friends. Organisation is Amelia's passion: in both home life and work life and is something she excels at.

According to the Astronomical calendar, which relates to the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, autumn officially began on Friday 23rd September, the autumn equinox, to end on Wednesday 21st December, the winter solstice.