A Natural Undertaking

23/07/2025

It's and we are doing our bit to try and minimise our use of single use plastic at funerals. Our oak veneer coffins are offered with wooden handles and fittings as standard- they are more sustainable and (we think!) more stylish than traditional plastic handles. We can supply plastic handles- it's completely your choice- for a small extra charge that we will donate to an excellent local project Dawberry Corner community garden Our Scene CIC. Every little helps!

17/07/2025

There's been a lot in the news this week about how we ensure the "security and dignity" of people after death. We think it's really important for families to know exactly where their person will be looked after and who will be taking care of them. So come and find out- on Tuesday August 19th at 7pm we are having an Open Evening to see "behind the scenes" at our Kings Heath branch and ask all the questions you have ever wanted to ask an undertaker.
You can book a place by giving us a call on 0121 444 0437, Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm or emailing [email protected]. The event is free but places are limited.

03/07/2025

Calling all aspiring morticians and undertakers! A vacancy has opened up with us for a new Mortuary and Funeral Assistant.

This is a great role for anyone wishing to join a small but creative and proactive team. More details on our website about the role and how to apply via the link below. Applications close 31st July.

https://www.anaturalundertaking.co.uk/we-are-recruiting/mortuary-and-funeral-assistant/

22/06/2025

Proud to be The Good Funeral Guide CIC recommended ❤️

We only recommend the best!

If you see our logo on a website or in a window, it means the company has been accredited by us.

Unlike other listing sites, which offer names of companies that have paid a fee for promotion, all of the companies shown on our website have been through the rigorous Good Funeral Guide accreditation process, and all of them comply with our accreditation Terms and Conditions.

We are proud to recommend a list of brilliant funeral directors across the UK, along with some beautiful natural burial grounds.

Every company that we recommend has undergone an in-depth assessment by the directors of the Good Funeral Guide, and we would be happy to choose any of them for the funeral of someone we love.

We have scrutinised applications, taken up references and visited all the companies that we recommend. We have met the owners and senior staff, and been shown around, with access to all areas.

We have asked many questions and been satisfied with the answers.

We believe that if you choose one of our recommended companies to help you with a funeral, then you will receive the best level of service and care.

⭐️ If you are looking for a funeral director, check our list first. It’s under the ‘Directory’ tab on the Good Funeral Guide website, link in bio.

⭐️ If you have had amazing service from a funeral director not listed, ask them why they aren’t recommended by the Good Funeral Guide.

⭐️ And if you are a funeral director who is interested in becoming recommended by us, get in touch.

18/06/2025

If you can, please fill in this questionnaire for our good friends at the The Good Funeral Guide CIC

🔥 URGENT CALL TO ACTION: WE NEED YOUR HELP 🔥

From The Good Funeral Guide CIC

We’ve spent hundreds of unpaid hours creating a careful, fair, and vital questionnaire about people’s real experiences of direct cremation.

We’re doing this to gather the evidence no one else will. Not the advertisers. Not regulators. Not the big-money providers.

🟢 But we have a problem: after a month, we only have 47 responses.

That’s not enough to speak truth to power.
That’s not enough to challenge £32 million in advertising spend.
That’s not enough to protect the public from being misled.

👉 If you care about funeral truth, choice, dignity, or transparency — we need you. Today.

Please:
1. Take 5 minutes right now to share this link on your website, your socials, your email list, your client newsletter.
2. Tell people why it matters.
3. Don’t just like this post — act.

📩 Here’s the link to share:
https://forms.gle/3zP8Uf1m37HBRT4RA
(or go to the “direct cremation” tab on the Good Funeral Guide website: https://www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk/direct-cremation)

Funerals matter.

Help us evidence it.

23/05/2025

There's some absolutely brilliant stuff happening in our Vicarage Road community this summer- all part of creating a "Brandwood Buzz!". This Weeknd there's a Desi Workshop at St Bede's Church- to book this and to see all the other events, link is here:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/our-scene/

20/05/2025

They only went and won a blooming gold 🥇🌺❤️

We did the thing people told us we couldn’t do. We took funeral flowers and a coffin to the most prestigious flower show in the world and we won GOLD🏅

17/05/2025

…and here we are! All ready at Birmingham Central Library in the wellbeing area with Brum YODO Child Bereavement UK Evolve&Flourish Ltd Samaritans, Francis Tapestry, sunrise paintings, ,

Do come along, we have our funeral jukebox, children’s painting area, quiz and loads of info. 🎉

16/05/2025

A little reminder that we'll be at Birmingham Central Library tomorrow as part of the grand finale to this year's A Matter of Life and Death festival with Brum YODO. We'll have a coffin design competition, our Funeral Jukebox and lots of chances to ask all the questions you'd like. Join us!

15/05/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for our Open Evening -'Meet the Undertaker' All our spaces were filled so we are planning to run the evening again later in the year. If you missed out this time and enquired we'll be in touch when we've set a date.

Many thanks also to our guests for your brilliant questions, the conversations and the laughter 😊, and to Brum YODO for organising a wonderful schedule of events this week, which is culminating in the Pop Up Death event (we'll be there!) at the Library of Birmingham on Saturday 12pm-4pm.

14/05/2025

Our friend and favourite florist Carole Tuckshop Flowers is off to the Chelsea Flower show to display natural funeral flowers for the first time in its history. We’re off to Chelsea next week as guests of Carole and the rest of the excellent directory team🌷🌺🌸🌼🌻

Co-created by Carole Patilla, the display is the first with the theme in the show's 112-year history.

12/05/2025

We are proud to be The Good Funeral Guide CIC recommended funeral directors- and their work in educating and supporting funeral consumers is invaluable and important. They are carrying out some research into the impact of Direct Cremations on grieving friends and families. There is very little research available on the potential impact that not having a funeral may be having- and they would love to hear about your experiences.

Direct cremation What is a direct cremation? A direct cremation is NOT a funeral. This is important to recognise.A direct cremation is where the body of the person who has died is taken straight to the crematorium and cremated without a funeral ceremony*. The latest Sun Life Cost of Dying Report 202...