Welcome

Welcome to the Association of Green Funeral Directors. We are a membership association open to all individual funeral homes to join, with the proviso that they fulfil its criteria/rules for membership on an ongoing basis.

The organisation will serve two main purposes which are as follows:

1. To encourage funeral directors (FDs) to become more green-minded in all aspects of their work and help bring natural funerals into the mainstream.
2. To provide income for the Natural Death Centre (NDC), an organisation that provides independent funeral advice in the UK.

The accounts of the organisation will be transparent and will be open to all members to inspect. They will be published on a yearly basis.

The Association will shortly have a President and Executive who will be appointed at the National Funeral Exhibition at Stoneleigh Park this June. The President will be elected on a yearly basis and the Executive members will generally serve for a longer period of time. These Officers will generally be Funeral Directors, but need not be exclusively so.

The Association will have a star (or Acorn) rating system to encourage healthy competition amongst its members as to their greenness as well as to help show the public which FDs are genuinely the most environmentally caring and aware. This will also make it easy for the public to compare FD members in their locality.