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“I love it,” says new catering manager and chef Sarah Walker of her first 3 months at Burstows Funerals...

The aim of all the books highlighted in this and the previous blog is to provide understanding and hope. You and your child may feel exactly as the characters do, or just a little – everyone’s grief is individual.

We all experience the death of a loved one – someone we know and care about – at some point in our lives but for some, sadly, that loss comes earlier than for others.

Please think before you click: Scammers are targeting grieving family and friends by pretending online to be genuine businesses to access your money or other sensitive information.

Not everyone cries. Not everyone feels their loss immediately or in the same way. But no one should be judged because “every grieving person looks different ...

Experiencing the death of a loved one changes us and our world as we know it. So what happens once the funeral is over and that initial outpouring of support...

The smell, the presentation, the sharing of food and drink, bring us together, nourish our spirits, warm us from the inside, and help us to feel a little more whole.

You can choose an unattended cremation for yourself or a loved one and still deal with the local family business with a proven reputation for excellence, and people you trust.

If you have the opportunity to talk about what you and your loved ones wish from a funeral before you are experiencing the pain and stress of grief and loss, it can make a real difference.

Music plays such a soothing, healing, spiritual and energising role in our lives from our earliest days that it makes perfect sense it is also an essential part of our funerals.

Without love there is no grief, but who wants to live without love?

If you have lost someone special, especially in the past year, you might be questioning where the joy is this Christmas season, or how you can possibly have a “Happy Birthday”.

Did you know that the best way to move forward is sometimes to look backwards?

Sometimes as carers, it’s difficult to acknowledge that we need to also care for ourselves.

This may seem a strange question, but these days too often we are urged to simply dispose of the body of a loved one...