The Centre for Natural Burial

Pam Frampton, The Telegram
“Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom — all, which makes death a hideous show.”
— Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), English poet and social critic
Let’s get this straight: there’s nothing funny about death. But I think we can all agree that’s it’s […]

Andover Advertiser,Hampshire Business
IT does what it says on the can and that’s why it was chosen as one of the winners in this year’s Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sustainable Business Awards.
East Meon’s Sustainability Centre was named as Small Business of the Year, a category sponsored by Business Link, when the awards were presented by […]

The owner of a country estate has unveiled plans to extend Norfolk’s first woodland burial site by creating a new wetland nature reserve.
The Colney Wood Memorial Park, near Norwich, was opened for burials and the scattering of ashes in 2000, despite concerns from villagers over the impact on a conservation area.

EveningStar
DESPITE nearly 400 protests plus objections from all the surrounding villages, community leaders are being recommended to give the go-ahead to proposals for a new woodland burial site.
The controversial venture would be set up on 97 acres of farmland at Tuddenham St Martin and eventually cater for 21,000 graves.

By Neil Phillips, Bucks Free Press
AS work forges ahead to complete a woodland cemetery for Beaconsfield, the first funerals have already been staged there. Building work is hoped to be completed by Easter, ahead of a full opening to the public shortly afterwards.

By Gill Broad, Whitchurch Herald
PLANS have been submitted to allow the first green burial ground in North Shropshire to be established just outside Whitchurch. James Blantern of Alkington Grange, Alkington, has applied for permission to create the site on a three-acre section of field, holding a maximum of 10 burials a year.

Plans have been submitted to build the first green burial ground in North Shropshire.
If approved, the site at Alkington Grange, near Whitchurch, would be used for around 10 burials a year using methods and items such as coffins and casks which are non-polluting and biodegradable.

Three Welsh burial sites won top prizes at the 2008 Cemetery of the Year Awards last night. Thornhill Cemetery and Crematorium in Cardiff won the National Asociation of Memorial Masons’ freedom of choice award, The pet cemetery at Brynford, Holywell, won an honourable mention in pet sites and Usk Castle Chase Natural Burial Ground, Monmouth, […]

Northampton Chron & Echo
Families in Northamptonshire are turning their backs on traditional funerals in favour of giving their deceased loved ones a greener send-off.
Instead of paying for horse-drawn hearses and engraved gravestones, families are choosing more environmentally-friendly plots as the final resting place for relatives.

By Gavin Havery, Northern Echo
An environmentalist is looking for a site in County Durham to create a green burial ground and set up a community consisting of eco-friendly mini-industries. Ian Rutland, director of Sustainability North-East, needs 60 acres of land for his £1.25m project.
The 47-year-old, from Pity Me, near Durham, will create a wooded area […]