Sunlife’s Cost of Dying Report 2021 has found that the cost currently stands at £4,184*, up 1.7% since 2019, when it was £4,115. And since 2004, the average funeral costs have risen 128% since 2004. As a campaigner against funeral poverty, this is a very...
Would you like to help us end funeral poverty in Scotland? In 2018 , the anti-poverty charity Community Renewal set up a not-for-profit funeral directors – Caledonia Cremation – to help bereaved people across Scotland who were prevented from saying their...
Barbara Chalmers is the founder of Final Fling & Only Human In this frank discussion, we explore why it is so important to start thinking about end of life plans and bust a few myths along the way. As Scotland’s only charity-run funeral directors, we are...
Caledonia Cremation was set up 3 years ago to fight funeral poverty by providing not-for-profit dignified cremations across mainland Scotland. However not everyone who chooses us does so because of financial reasons. The fact that we exclusively offer direct cremation...
The pressure to provide one type of funeral can push many into funeral debt. Is it time to re-think what a funeral is? The more “newsworthy” alternative funerals often make the headlines – but that isn’t what we mean here. It can...
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