SAIF Golden Charter

Support when it is most needed

Since beginning delivery of the SAIF (Bereavement) Care service in January 2018 and launching formally at the SAIF AGM in March, we have been delighted to welcome well in excess of 125 SAIF member businesses to the service.

Through this network of more than 260 funeral director branches offering the SAIF Care service, we are able to offer bereaved people right across the UK appropriate and timely care and counselling following their bereavement. All of those who have joined the service should now have received information leaflets and promotional material from SAIF Business Centre and many have added information about the service to their websites – we are happy to help with providing words for this if you need them.

We have also received copies of media articles released to the local press by members and have been pleased by the number of tweets and Facebook posts we have seen informing the public about SAIF Care and how independent funeral directors are leading the way with improving support for bereaved people. We have quite a few followers on Twitter @SAIFCareUK and would love it if you would follow us – we’ll follow you back – and tweet about us or retweet our content as often as possible.

We have also recently set up a Facebook page and in the coming months hope to set up a SAIF Bereavement Care website with lots of helpful bereavement information and resources.

We have seen the number of referrals to the service increase on a month by month basis and have so far certainly been supporting the sharp end of the bereavements faced by the families you serve. We are working with quite a large number of individuals bereaved in particularly difficult or complex circumstances, and we know that while we can’t fix their pain or change what has happened, we can walk beside them as they begin to navigate through their grief and look towards a different but still hopeful future.

We have been really pleased to chat with a good number of members about what we offer and how the service works and hope to speak to each and every business that joins as soon as we can – and on that note, please keep joining. Membership of SAIF Care can be taken up at any time in the year (not just at renewal time) and you can begin to offer the benefits of a first class bereavement service very quickly upon joining.

For more information about joining SAIF Care, please contact Catherine Betley at catherine@professionalhelp. org.uk or call 0800 917 7224.

You can find more information on SAIF Care here.