Overview
This short webinar lasting around 1 hour will consider statistics, trends, and the future of cemeteries.
The following topics will also be discussed:
- The growing popularity of direct cremations, and emerging interest in direct to grave coffin burials
- The effect of climate change on management of body burials, and stricter groundwater contamination rules
- Grave re-use and columbaria for holding cremated remains
- Sustainable and “eco-friendly” grave memorialisation
Date
Thursday 16 January, 14:00 – 15:30
Price
Members: £30 + VAT
Non-Members: £35 + VAT
CPD points
Claim 1 CPD point for attending this webinar!
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“This was a good update on where we currently are with all things cemetery related. Very informative and raised lots of things to think about.”
Nicki Barry, Tadley Town Council
“The webinar was helpful and very interesting. Whilst not all of the course was relevant to my particular situation, I came away from it with answers to queries I had that were not so easy to find out without speaking to someone with the knowledge of the tutor.”
Aleana Baird, Yatton Parish Council
About the Trainer
SLCC’s Hon Vice President, Alan Fairchild, MBE, FSLCC.
A local council clerk for over 40 years before retirement and founder member of the Society. Alan spent most of his professional career as Town Clerk & Responsible Financial Officer of a large urban council bordering the City of Norwich. He also managed the council’s cemetery and closed churchyard and has been delivering training on burial ground management to clerks and councillors for many years.
Alan is a Board member of the British Register of Accredited Memorial Masons (BRAMM) and Society representative on the Ministry of Justice Cemetery & Cremation Advisory Group.
He is contributing to the Law Commission’s review of burial law and funeral practices to produce a “Modern Framework for Disposing of the Dead” launched in 2024.
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