We’re delighted to announce that we are finalists in the Tunbridge Wells Business Awards 2025. We’ve made it to the shortlist of the Best Large Business Category – and we’ll find out if we’ve won at the black-tie event next month.
The Tunbridge Wells Business Awards were set up last year by local loyalty card The TN Card to celebrate the best of the Tunbridge Wells business community, honouring the successes and achievements of the businesses and businesspeople doing great things for the town and the contribution they make to the Tunbridge Wells economy and community.
The headline sponsor this year is Berry & Lamberts Solicitors, with the award ceremony being held at Trinity Theatre and Arts Centre on 19 November.
We’re delighted to be shortlisted in the Best Large Business category, sponsored by CooperBurnett Solicitors, open to ‘thriving businesses with 20+ employees’. The finalists have been selected for showing strong growth, leadership and impact.
In 2024, we were a runner up in the Employer of the Year category.
To make it through to one of the six finalists of the Best Large Business title, we’ve had to show what sets us apart from our competitors. As a family-owned company, we’ve demonstrated how the ethos of family informs how we look after our staff and the families whom we are honoured to serve in their time of need, with quality, customer-focused, personalised service being central to every element of our funeral planning services. We’ve also explained how being truly independent enables us to be transparent in our pricing.
We had to detail our achievements over the last year, which have included a major investment in our new website, with the challenges of integrating third-party services, such as our memorial and charitable donations portals. We’ve tracked our growth, including taking on extra staff and increasing our market share in Tunbridge Wells. And we’ve shown how we’ve risen to the business challenges presented by the increases in employers’ National Insurance contributions, the National Living Wage and business rates.
We’ve also had to evidence innovation over the last 12 months. This has included fresh-thinking marketing to support our recruitment drives, introducing new memorial pages to give families the chance to pay tribute to their loved ones, and adapting our digital marketing strategy to the new AI landscape.
As business awards set up to support and encourage the Tunbridge Wells business community and the wider town, the judges will also be looking at our contribution to the people of Tunbridge Wells. We’ve had to show how we track customer satisfaction and staff wellbeing, and how we have incorporated sustainability into our business through our internal systems and procedures, our product range and enabling families to choose ‘green’ funeral options.
Finally, we’ve had to show how we support the community of Tunbridge Wells. Alongside our charitable initiatives, such as collecting chocolates and presents for the less fortunate in the town at Easter and Christmas, we’ve evidenced our support for local businesses through our supply chain and through our proactive membership of local networking groups BNI Royal Spa and The Sevenoaks District Chamber of Commerce.
We’re delighted to have made the finals of the Tunbridge Wells Business Awards 2025 and wish all the other finalists the very best of luck.
Over our 30 years supporting families throughout West Kent and Southeast London, we have seen more and more families wanting to personalise their send-off in ways that are as unique as their loved ones – and we have seen them getting more and more creative with it, too. But within that, one ancient form of customisation has been lost – the flowers. Here, we delve into the tradition of flowers at funerals, what each one symbolises, and how you can combine them to convey a quiet message to your loved one.
Losing a loved one is hard. But when a loved one loses a loved one, the hard part is knowing how to act. Do they want to talk? Or fondly reminisce in silence? Do you say, “I’m so sorry,” when you both know all the apologies in the world cannot bring them back? Should you bring them a casserole? And is it even possible to bake a heartful of love and support into a freezer meal?
Everyone grieves differently, but recent data from Theos Think Tank (2023) gives us helpful insights into the most common ways people seek support during bereavement. If you are supporting someone in West Kent or Southeast London, this research – and our guidance – may help you feel more confident in your compassion.
You save into their university fund, put money aside for their wedding, their first house, their first car. But the idea of having to fund your own child’s funeral? It is a thought that no parent ever thinks will cross their mind, and one that no one should ever have to. However, in our 30 years of helping families throughout West Kent and Southeast London, it would be duplicitous to say that this is a situation we have never come across, however much we would like to.
In July 2019, the government launched the Children’s Funeral Fund, aiming to help cover the costs for grieving families. We know that no sum can account for the loss of a child, but we would like to give you information about the fund to ensure families are aware of all resources available to them.
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