Top Tips for Creating a Christmas Memorial Wreath
The UK’s oldest funeral director CPJ Field has partnered with Zara Dalrymple, owner of Zara Flora in East Grinstead, to share how to create your own unique Christmas memorial wreath at home. Adding specific flourishes, favourite Christmas decorations, flowers or even scents are simple ways to remember a loved one.
How the role of a Funeral Director has changed throughout the Coronavirus Pandemic
Jackie Buckingham, one of our funeral directors based at our Deric Scott in Bournemouth has worked with us for over 20 years. Here we talk to Jackie about her role and how she has adapted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Reminders for Christmas and Preparing for the New Year
As we approach Christmas and look forward to spending time with our family, friends, and colleagues, we can look back at the last couple of weeks editions of the Wellbeing newsletters with lots of top tips and ideas for the festive period.
C.P.J Field welcomes the CMA Final Report, published on the 18th December, 2020
We welcome the publishing of the final Competition & Markets Authority report (published on 18th December 2020), which sets out the proposed remedies relating to transparency; pricing and quality standards of care within the industry, including the formal registration of Funeral Directors.
Christmas is just around the corner
This year has been hugely different with COVID-19, isolation, loneliness, and regionalised restrictions, making 2020 a particularly tough time of year especially for those struggling with mental ill health, low esteem, low confidence, anxiety, and depression. So, what can we do then to support ourselves and others during this vastly different Christmas?
Self-Care: What it really is, and how to do it well
In this blog we hear from our colleague, Emma Symons discuss what self-care is and how we can build it into our daily lives.
Family Bonfire Night Chilli
Bonfire night, with its sweet toffee apples, dazzling firework displays, bonfires and sparklers is a favourite family celebration for many. In light of the Coronavirus outbreak and major firework displays cancelled, Bonfire night will undoubtedly be celebrated a little differently this year. You can still enjoy a traditional family night with a favourite recipe, game […]
One of the newest recruits to Dogs for Good is named after our Chairman, Colin
At CPJ Field we have our own ‘Charity Volunteer Day’ – an opportunity for all our colleagues to volunteer for one day per quarter at a charity of their choice, during the working week. Our Memorial Administrator, Helen volunteers with the charity, Dogs for Good. A life-transforming charity who work to create partnerships between people […]
Why should we care about the arts?
It is so invigorating and frankly heart-warming to see the innovative ways our colleagues and families have adapted to include more people in funerals. From lining the street to streaming funerals via Zoom, we’re ensuring that grieving families don’t completely lose the support that gathering for a funeral would usually bring. It feels undeniably odd […]
Reflecting on the last six months of the pandemic: A letter from our Managing Director
When they come to write the history of the last few years, 2020 is going to be one HUGE chapter; the overriding theme of which will of course be the bolt out of the blue that is the Coronavirus pandemic. In addition, economic turmoil on a scale not experienced by anyone born since 1945 […]