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Your wedding or civil partnership celebration is an important event, which will be a wonderfully enjoyable occasion.

I will be privileged to help you create & choreograph a ceremony which is just right for you.
With a humanist ceremony you have the freedom to say exactly what you choose & to stage the event where you wish.

I look forward to meeting & sharing with you to begin making the arrangements for your special day.

After an interesting career with charities, in the UK and abroad, and in adult education and life coaching, I consider myself very fortunate to have become a funeral celebrant. Experience has shown me what a difference it makes to a bereaved family and friends if the funeral they are holding is a fitting celebration of their loved one's life.

I feel privileged to be able to help people in creating a unique ceremony that will help them come to terms with their loss. Being a celebrant uses my skills and experience to support people through this time of transition and change.

I am accredited by the BHA to conduct weddings, namings, affirmations and funerals. Having retired from my military career I now devote much of my time to my ceremonies work and, as a member of the training team, I support other celebrants.

Human interaction is frequently complex and yet we appear to be leading increasingly insular lives. I feel that conducting Humanist ceremonies for rites of passage enables us to experience and promote the warm and positive aspects of our human nature, to do as we would be done by.

The support and understanding of the person giving a ceremony is - as I know and try to achieve - so very important to the people involved.

My background has been in education, and I moved to the area to work at the University of Bath in the 1980s.

In more recent years I have been involved in a range of local activities involving people of many ages and backgrounds. Now I am concentrating on my provision of non-religious ceremonies.

I live in Chepstow, and used to work in Bristol and Thornbury as a professional officer and manager in local authorities. After being impressed by a humanist funeral I attended, I trained as a celebrant in 2009.

I work as closely as possible with family and friends to prepare and deliver a non-religious ceremony which is uniquely tailored to each person's circumstances.

No two ceremonies are alike, but they share a common thread - to pay tribute to a loved one, and mark the ending of their life in the most fitting way possible.

'Becoming a funeral celebrant is one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. I enjoy meeting people, and have a sympathatic and kind nature.

With the family's assistance, I prepare a sensitive and appropriate ceremony and can make suggestions, if necessary, for readings and music to ensure the ceremony is a truly fitting tribute to their loved one.

I am a retired Civil Servant, with hobbies and interests such as travel, family history, gardening and reading especially 18/19th century social history.

I always feel fortunate to be involved with ceremonies which mark special occasions in people's lives. I enjoy helping to make each one an occasion to remember and work hard to create a script which fully reflects the personalities involved.

Ceremonies can be held in any venue or location, indoors or outdoors; they can be as formal or informal as you wish, and as traditional or unusual as your imagination allows! Having taken early retirement from the teaching profession I am available to take ceremonies on any day of the week.

Please contact me to arrange an initial meeting, without obligation, if you would like to discuss arranging a ceremony.

It is really important to have the funeral ceremony you want and to play a part in it if you wish.

I am very pleased to be able to use skills, developed over a long career in education,
to listen to bereaved family and friends and help them put together a ceremony
which celebrates and honours the life of the person who has died, and which reflects their personality and values.

I spent forty years working in education as a teacher, adviser, manager, trainer, researcher and principal of a sixth form college. On retiring, I chose to make being a Humanist celebrant my second career, to go on helping people in a way which would use my skills and experience and to put into practice the Humanist values I tried to bring to my work in education.

I hope a Humanist funeral can help people accept and respond to death - their own and that of those with whom they share their lives - as a central part of the human experience. Each person should be valued and remembered as unique, in a way which reflects their beliefs and is true to them.

I love my job as a celebrant and I feel privileged to work with people at important times of transition in their lives.

Having first trained with the BHA in 2000, I took early retirement from teaching two years later in order to pursue the career more fully and I am beginning to see it as my life’s work. I am now increasingly involved in training and mentoring new celebrants for the BHA.

I see myself as a warm, positive person and I try to live my life ethically and openly. I enjoy running, cycling, walking, singing, reading and gardening and I am interested in environmental issues, psychology and health.

I have worked in several different fields and most recently as a freelance trainer. I have been involved with providing humanist ceremonies for ten years and continue to find this a rewarding experience.

It is a privilege to help a family commemorate someone close to them who has died, or to enable a couple to have the kind of wedding ceremony they really want. It is a joy to lead a naming ceremony as parents make commitments to their children.

I also believe in the importance of all our celebrants carrying out their work in a competent and professional manner and am involved in training new celebrants and providing professional development for existing ones.

I am a non-practising barrister who worked as a legal adviser, senior manager and trainer within the Magistrates' Courts Service for 26 years. I have also been a partner in a small business.
I believe I am someone with respect for others, compassion and empathy. I enjoy reading, music, walking and spending time with friends.
Everyone's life has value and is unique. For me, an important part of the work of a celebrant is to enable the bereaved and anyone planning their own funeral to be aware of and make their own choices about the ceremony they want. It is a privilege to assist people to mark the life that has been and say goodbye in a way that is meaningful to them.

I have been interested in the provision of suitable and meaningful funerals for many years. A funeral ceremony should reflect the personality of the deceased, will normally be a celebration of that person's life and should provide the bereaved with a sense of having honoured and having said an appropriate goodbye to their loved one.

The provision of uplifting wedding and partnership ceremonies, created in close co-operation with the couple, is a service in which I feel privileged to be involved.

A personalised, Humanist naming ceremony provides parents with a meaningful way in which to share with friends and family the boundless joy that they experience in having a new member of their family.

I have lived in Devon for the last 35 years and enjoy golf, languages, gardening, walking, meeting people and European travel.

As a nurse for many years, I think I'm a warm and friendly person with lots of experience of supporting people through difficult times.

It is a great privilege to plan and deliver a ceremony as unique as the person whose life is being celebrated, meaningful and comforting.

Some family and friends want to take part playing music, reading poetry or paying their own spoken tribute. Others feel unable to, and prefer me to speak for them. I can also help you to make plans for your own funeral, in outline or in detail.

I have been an accredited celebrant since 2000 for funerals, first in Kent, then in Cornwall since 2002.

I enjoy conducting ceremonies and meeting families at a time of need, or for joyful planning, to create a fulfilling and uplifting experience. In March 2003 I completed the training for conducting weddings and naming ceremonies. I have had the good fortune to have travelled extensively since the early 1960's, living in Canada, the USA and South Africa.

Among my interests are ornithology, fishing, music, amateur dramatics, 2 demanding dogs and working on 10 acres of overgrown ancient woodland.

I was born and bred in Guernsey spending a few years away on the mainland before returning to the island.

I spent many years thinking there really should be a non religious option easily available to mark all the important stages of life so I was delighted to become a Humanist celebrant in 2008. The chance to offer a ceremony that fits with your beliefs is very rewarding.

Whether it is the joy of a wedding or naming or the sadness when someone dies I am looking forward to creating occasions that will be meaningful and special for all involved whether these are in a traditional style or a little bit different.

A Guernseyman, as well as being a Humanist celebrant, I am also a funeral director in my day-to-day work so don't be taken aback if your call about a wedding, affirmation or naming ceremony is answered in the name of my funeral company.

I have conducted weddings in some unusual but beautiful settings such as the Silbe Nature Reserve and St. James Concert Hall in Guernsey, Gorey Castle and La Mare Vineyard in Jersey. I have conducted weddings atop the cliffs in the peaceful Island of Sark and in the luxuriant gardens of the White House Hotel on the tiny Island of Herm.

For further information about Pamela you are invited to visit her website

			
			
			
			
			
			




         
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