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Funeral Notices Price Update - Midlands Region

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Published 06/12/2021
by Vicki Barlow
Following a successful trial in the Teesside Gazette, we are pleased to announce we are introducing fixed price notices across all of our newspaper titles.

One of our key principles is our commitment to offering excellent value to families. Introducing a flexible style, fixed price notice helps us honour the traditional newspaper announcement; bringing the design and style of the notice up-to-date whilst maintaining our high standards of value and customer service in the process.

What is new?

  • Longer notices included in the cost*
  • Flexible double column style notice with a full border as standard
  • Enhance every notice with an optional photo and/ or symbol, making every notice personal for each family
  • Option to add your funeral home logo with your contact details in the notice at no extra cost, giving you brand recognition in a non-intrusive way on each notice
  • Two inserts included in the price (in daily newspapers)
*Up to 20cm for one fixed price (see below for the price in your local area), after that £10 (excl. VAT) per cm up to max 30cm

Why are we making this change?

Introducing one flexible style and cost for notices in all of our print titles allows families to make a choice on how they would like to announce the passing of their loved one.

Our fair and transparent prices, plus the improved look and value of the newspaper notice, is designed to encourage families to announce a funeral to our print and online audience. Our new newspaper notice style will also feature a place for your business logo at no extra cost to the family, increasing awareness of your funeral home in your local newspaper.
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Just a few of the symbols available on the new flexible style notice
Moving forward, there will be two options to choose from:

Newspaper & online at funeral-notices.co.uk
Or
Online at funeral-notices

The cost of an online notice is £30 + VAT - offering families access to our unrivalled audience for their notices, providing a place for families from every corner of the UK to announce their funerals, share memories, tributes, receive messages of condolence and raise donations for charity in memory of their loved ones.

We will continue to offer online notices free to any Funeral Director who chooses us to provide notices on their website; our Preferred Partners.
All notices booked to appear in a newspaper continue to benefit from their notice appearing online too.

Fixed price newspaper notices

Having all of our notices in a double column box will improve the look of the funeral notices pages in print, moving away from a mix of lineage and single/double column boxes. This provides a better and more impactful reader experience.

Flexible style fixed price notices won’t just benefit families - they also benefit Funeral Directors and Arrangers. Fixed price notices will:
  • Mean one set price you can give to all your families - no need to go back and forth with quotes or estimates, saving you time when arranging the service for the families
  • Make the cost of a notice transparent to all (in line with CMA guidelines)
  • Include space for your business logo at no extra cost to the family
  • Still include an option for online donations
  • Make it easy for families to decide on wording.

One fair price for every Funeral Director

The cost of the flexible style notice has been carefully calculated to offer excellent value. The fixed price is based on the average cost of a notice placed in your local newspaper by every Funeral Director over the last year.

Family support notices

We will still have notices available to families to book directly. These notices will be changing to the new style, with the choice between a newspaper and online or online notice to ensure consistency on the pages of your local newspaper. Family notices will still be charged based on the size of the notice, will not include a Funeral Director logo and will be charged per insert. The fixed price notice offering best value will only be available to families via the Funeral Director.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgement notices will also benefit from the new flexible style of notice and fixed price. Acknowledgements will be charged at a fixed rate of £50 + VAT.

If you book your own notices

We are confident you will find booking the new flexible style notices easier. We have made no changes to the booking site itself and it will now be easier to start writing your notice without having multiple styles to choose from. Photographs and logos will be added in the same way and our new choice of symbols will give traditional notices a modern, personal touch.

If you call/email your notices

Please continue to request a notice in the same way as you always have. It will be helpful if you let us know if the family would like to include a photograph, if you would like us to include your logo in the notice or if the family have any preference over the symbol they would prefer.

Feedback for fixed price notices in the Teesside area was overwhelmingly positive, with most Funeral Directors reporting positive responses from families. One huge benefit described is the time saved in not having to get the cost of the notice approved after the wording had been submitted.

Our team is aiming to contact every Funeral Director prior to this change happening and we will be introducing the new style notices one area at a time so we can better support you, should you need it.

The new notice will be available from 11:30am Tuesday 14th December.

To find out how much the fixed price notice will cost, please choose your local newspaper from the list below:

We are here to help

Our team will be available to help you with any questions or support you may need with this change. Please feel free to contact us:

We look forward to introducing you to the flexible style notice.

If you would like to benefit from free online notices and a minimum £2,000 in free advertising by becoming a Preferred Partner, get in touch with us now.
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