Monthly Archives: September 2017
New Home Office Guidance for Employers for Conducting Right to Work Checks
On 16 August 2017, the Home Office released new guidance for employers for conducting right to work checks. It...
Dementia awareness – SAIF Regional Meeting in Bournemouth
A study by The Lancet showed that an extra 71000 care home places will be needed by 2025. As...
What does a funeral director actually do? Becky Horton describes a ‘typical’ day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to...
How have causes of death changed in 100 years?
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) recently reported on the change to the causes of deaths since 1915. People...
Learn about The General Data Protection Regulation at SAIF’s High Wycombe meeting
SAIF’s Regional Meetings schedule is making a detour for the first time to High Wycombe, so if you’re nearby...
London Cinema screening of Almost Heaven
SAIF has been contacted by Bertha DocHouse (dochouse.org), London’s documentary cinema, located inside Curzon Bloomsbury who thought that their...
Fraud warning from LEEC
SAIF has been contacted by LEEC that a fraudulent request for Credit Card details has been made to one of...
Main speaker at SAIF’s Education Day is Scotland’s first inspector of funerals
SAIF Business Centre is delighted that Natalie McKail will be the headline speaker at the SAIF Education Day on...
SAIF Applicant in Carlisile, Cumbria
SAIF has received a membership application from a funeral director in Carlisle. Please log on to the members area...
People aged 40-49 had highest rate of drug misuse deaths in 2016
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) recently published their report: ‘Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales:...
Tailored training for funeral professionals – Harlow on 7th October & Saffron Walden on 4th November
The IFD College is hosting two Funeral Operative Courses in Essex. The course has been designed for members of your...
SAIF Applicant in West Yorkshire
SAIF has received a membership application from a funeral director in Leeds. Please log on to the members area...
World Heart Day is 29th September
World Heart Day is on 29th September so why not get involved and promote some heart healthy messages across...
Stay SAIF from scams: Captain Joe is still sailing
A while back SAIF Business Centre highlighted the email about the captain of a fishing vessel whose wife had...
Join SAIF in High Wycombe on 4th October
SAIF’s Regional Meetings schedule is making a detour for the first time to High Wycombe, so if you’re nearby...
SAIF Applicant in North Yorkshire
SAIF has received an application from a funeral director in Boroughbridge. Please log on to the members area and...
Concerned about changes to regulations affecting funerals?
There’s a lot of talk about potential changes to regulations affecting funerals, particularly following the appointment of the first...
How early should we prepare for our own death?
Monthly blog from Paul Allcock, SAIF Immediate Past President & SAIF Government Liaison rep Yesterday I was at the...
Improving SAIF’s Facebook presence
SAIF is pleased to announce the launch of our new consumer facing Facebook page as well as a private...
This is Remember a Charity Week
Remember A Charity Week, from 11-17 September, will call on the public to ‘Have Your Say on the World You...
SAIFInsure re-launched with an improvement in quality
Dear SAIF Member, You may well have seen in the recent SAIFInsight articles that SAIF ended it key supplier...
SAIF Members’ free webinar 13th September
By now you’ll know about the appointment of the Natalie McKail as the First Inspector of Funeral Directors in...
SAIF Applicant in Stoke-on-Trent
We have received an application from a Funeral Director in Stoke-on-Trent. If you would like more information please log...
World Suicide Prevention Day is 10th September
Every year, more than 800,000 people die by suicide and up to 25 times as many make a suicide...
Change to SAIF Membership application procedure
SAIF Members are encouraged to comment on new applications where they see a potential problem with the company applying....
Do you need training for funeral professionals in the Gainsborough area?
The Independent Funeral Directors’ (IFD) College will be running two courses in Gainsborough on 14th September: Health & Safety...
Training on infant loss for funeral directors, hospitals and crematoria on 18th September
The Foundation for Infant Loss Training will present a training session entitled: Infant Loss: Identifying best practice between hospitals,...
SAIF meeting in Chelmsford on 20th September
SAIF Members are invited to join us at our Regional Meeting on 20th September at The Essex Cricket Ground...
End of life charities merge
Hospice UK and the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), which leads the Dying Matters coalition, have completed their merger. ...
Next week is Organ Donation Week
Between 4-10 September, NHS Blood and Transplant, hospitals, charities and supporters of organ donation will be encouraging people across...
SAIF welcomes Royal London’s cost of funerals report
The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF) has welcomed the Royal London’s 2017 National Funeral Cost...
Meet Scotland’s new Inspector of Funeral Directors
Natalie McKail, the new Inspector of Funeral Directors in Scotland, will be attending the NAFD Scotland meeting, a week today – Thursday...
SAIF Applicant in Buckinghamshire
SAIF has received an application from a funeral director in Milton Keynes. Please log on to the members area...