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When you work in the funeral industry, opportunities to talk frankly and openly are often few and far between. The National Funeral Exhibition (NFE) provides an opportunity to meet with peers and suppliers in the industry. It is a safe place to talk about the best products and services available, attend talks and learning sessions and grab some lunch or a coffee in a relaxed environment.

Elaine came from the Funeral Directors Team to work on our Customer Services Department, and is highly experienced, having been our Customer Services Manager for over eight years. Outside of work, Elaine loves spending time with family and friends, cooking, walking and gardening. She is also very excited to become a grandma late this summer!

The largest trade show for the funeral sector, The National Funeral Exhibition 2022 (NFE 2022), is due to take place Friday 10th - Sunday 12th June 2022, at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. Funeral Notices are delighted to be exhibiting at the event. Come and see us at the NFE 2022 and allow us to demonstrate our online tribute and donation service. The traditional funeral notice is changing, with families expecting Funeral Directors to provide them with a digital tribute fit for their immediate needs. Join us at the event to understand how we can work together to ensure we are able to support families in their grief whilst empowering Funeral Directors to meet this changing need by partnering with them to provide tributes and donations for their own website, connecting them with the incredible audience that visits funeral-notices.co.uk every day. Funeral Notices Account Managers Rob Stebbing, Allan Tate and Helen Hiley will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about funeral notices. Our Account Managers will be joined at the event by Funeral Notices Manager Sarah Welton and Director Darren Minns. We’ll have some freebies to take away, space for you to take a seat and relax and plenty of time to speak with you one on one if you’d like. Sunday 12th June is family day, so we will have something to keep the children entertained too. You can find us on Stand 289 in Hall 2.

Pride month will be celebrated from 1st June to 30th June, 2022. The month of June is primarily recognised as Pride Month in the United States, but it has since become recognised in the UK and internationally, although Pride events are held at different times of the year in many countries.

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. Sarah Welton has been part of the team for more than 22 years and in that time has gained a wealth of experience and knowledge in both the media and funeral industries. Sarah began her career working for the Hull Daily Mail in a sales advertising role and has progressed within the business ever since. Sarah is mum to two boys and successfully juggles work and home life, leaving little time for relaxation. When opportunity allows she enjoys nothing more than catching up with her family or switching off with a good Netflix binge. Sarah manages the Funeral Notices team which is part of the Contact Centre, overseen by Director Darren Minns.

A jubilee is a celebration of a king or queen’s life and service, which takes place at regular intervals of a monarch’s reign. Each one is associated with a different precious metal; silver (25 years), ruby (40 years), golden (50 years), diamond (60 years), sapphire (65 years), and platinum (70 years). The Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee, which marks 70 years of service.

Here on funeral-notices.co.uk we like to spotlight a different charity every month in one of our blogs. On last month’s blog a user of funeral-notices.co.uk left us a comment suggesting that we spotlight MS Society and all the great work that they do, so we thought that we would do just that.

Richard is also involved in writing blogs published to funeral-notices.co.uk. You can check out one of his recent articles here. A keen writer, he has even written a couple of articles for Reach Plc on his favourite subject - comic books. Richard is a huge fan of comic books, having been reading and collecting them for about 18 years - he even has his own Instagram account dedicated to the comic books he owns.

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Richard also loves to watch all the Marvel movies and TV shows. The rest of his time is spent with his family, in particular his farm obsessed 3 year old, Sonny.

During the pandemic, deaths were commonly being reported by the media as merely a number or a statistic, and it became almost too easy for them to forget that behind every number was an individual person with their own likes, dislikes, hobbies, and friends. A funeral can be a time when we remember the individual by playing their favourite music, sharing our favourite memories of them, or just looking over old pictures of their happiest times. Now there is even the option of having a personalised coffin that really shows off their personality, and we thought we would share a few of our favourites with you here.

Planning a funeral for a loved one who has passed away can be an extremely difficult thing to do, especially at such an emotional time. It can be difficult to know where to start, so here is a quick guide on what you need to do and the various options available. It is important to ask for help from friends and family where possible. Help and support from loved ones can make a huge difference, and make the planning a little bit easier for you.