Albany Funerals

08/10/2026

Another important article from the The Good Funeral Guide CIC that raises some worrying questions.
A few years ago, we welcomed the investigation launched into the funeral industry by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) resulting in some much-need changes, particularly around transparency of pricing.
Five years on, it’s disappointing to see that many are still failing to comply with these simple legal requirements and even more so that the CMA is not following up on concerns raised.
In the wake of the appalling Robert Bush scandal, there is rightly a renewed determined to bring meaningful regulation to the funeral industry. However, surely we also need to make sure that the protections already in place for the public are actually being enforced?
We hope that the CMA will take the concerns raised here by the The Good Funeral Guide CIC seriously and continue the work it began with such commitment.

After the pleasure of a day spent connecting with each other at our Better Together event on Saturday, it's back to more serious stuff.

On the GFG Blog today, we ask what's going on with the Competition and Markets Authority's oversight of the funeral market after their major intervention of implementing the Funerals Market Investigation Order in 2021.

Spoiler alert - doesn't look like much.

https://goodfuneralguide.co.uk/2026/10/what-has-happened-to-compliance-with-the-law/

06/10/2026

What a tonic! Thank you to the The Good Funeral Guide CIC for organising this ❤️

17/09/2026

HELP!!
Please join with the victims of the rogue funeral operator director Robert Bush in Hull calling for regulation of the funeral industry. Sadly the petition below has had very little traction in spite of the public outcry at the time. Please sign and share to keep this from ever happening again in this country.
Thank you 🙏.

On the blog today - we are calling for people to sign the petition created by families affected by the appalling case of Robert Bush.

Please share this post and encourage everyone you know to do the same.

The petition can be found here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767402?utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv0

Our thoughts about it are on the blog here:
https://goodfuneralguide.co.uk/2026/09/where-are-you-all/

04/09/2026

We are so glad to work with local designer Dave Scates, who creates the Orders of Service for many of our funerals.

Every one is designed from scratch, rather than chosen from a set of standard templates, and it really shows. Dave has a good eye for the little details - the choice of colours, typefaces and small touches that make each design feel completely special.

It's also really nice to work with someone local who cares about getting these things right. Thank you Dave!

For info please either contact us at: [email protected], or Dave directly at: [email protected]

Photos courtesy of Emily Brown.
Flowers by Gentle Farewells Rooted in Nature.

27/08/2026

They are indeed handsome boys and they did us proud again today.
Thank you Natasha and TJ and Baby! 🐴♥️

Look at these handsome boys 😍 our lovely TJ and Baby had a nice local clippity clop today for our friends at Albany’s 🙃

Also.. not hating these orange plumes 😂 I think the boys pull them off well! www.acorncarriagehire.com 07703 492543

27/08/2026

We are always on the lookout for ideas that can bring something special and individual to a funeral, and we recently came across these beautiful picture letters. Filled with photos from across a person's life, they make a really personal display at the funeral, and can be taken home and kept afterwards.
Best of all, the letters are made to order locally by a fantastic mother and son team. They are full of enthusiasm and ideas, incredibly helpful and ready to listen too. Just the sort of people we love working with. The pricing is also very reasonable, in line with floral lettering.
Thank you Claudie and Thibau from Picture Letters!

03/08/2026

The The Good Funeral Guide CIC has published a Funeral Director Pledge, setting out eleven commitments that families should be able to expect from their funeral director.
We are pleased to commit to it and hope it encourages the highest standards of care, openness and professionalism throughout the profession.
You’ll find the full pledge below.

03/08/2026

Last week's sentencing of Robert Bush from Legacy Funeral Directors in Hull brings a degree of justice but nothing can undo the distress and heartbreak experienced by the families affected. Our thoughts are with all those people whose lives have been turned upside down by these events. They deserved so much better.

That's why we wholeheartedly support the call for proportionate and effective regulation of the funeral profession.

If you also believe that it's time for the Government to act, please consider signing and sharing this petition.

Legislation needs to be introduced urgently to ensure the prevention of any Funeral Director malpractice including the hoarding of the deceased, degrading storage of the deceased including ashes and preventing the lawful burial of the deceased.

29/07/2026

This week, the The Good Funeral Guide CIC have published a series of documents that set out a proposed framework for regulation of the funeral profession.
Like many, we were shocked at the recent events at Legacy Funeral Directors in Hull, all the more so with the extremely upsetting revelations from the ongoing court case coming out this week. They affected not only the families involved, but also dented the trust that people put in funeral directors at the hardest times in their lives.
Over the past few months our founder and owner Jo Williamson has had the privilege of being part of a working group of funeral directors brought together by Fran Hall, CEO of the Good Funeral Guide to consider what sensible and effective regulation could look like.
We are all really proud of the work that has gone into these robust documents, and the thoughtful and collaborative approach taken by all involved. We now hope that the Government gives the issue the priority it deserves, taking time to consider these proposals carefully as a starting point for meaningful regulation.
Thank you to the Good Funeral Guide, who are, as always ahead of the curve on this and so many other issues.

Today we are publishing a suite of documents created by a working group of some of our superb Recommended funeral directors.

These documents have been developed to form a framework for regulation of the funeral sector that is written in the public interest, not that of the funeral industry.

We have spent the last two years trying to get various people in government to see that this framework would offer the public the reassurance required when they entrust the care of someone they love to a funeral professional.

Today, with the appalling horrors of what happened at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull being revealed as the sentencing hearing begins for the man who so appalling betrayed his community, we are sharing these documents publicly for the first time.

We hope that the government takes heed of the devastation inflicted on the families in Hull and act now to prevent such horror from ever happening again.

We call on our representatives in government to come together and implement properly crafted regulation, and we believe our suggested documents would provide a very good starting point.

Read today’s blog post here:

https://goodfuneralguide.co.uk/2026/07/regulation-of-the-funeral-sector/

29/06/2026

Mabel’s bereavement dog training is really going from strength to strength. She’s now onto emails, but she’s also on hand for cuddles when required.
Thank you Leigh for your training 🐶