Programme

MONDAY 20th JUNE
09.30 hrs onwards	Arrival and registration
10.00 hrs	FBCA National Executive Committee Meeting
12.00 hrs	FBCA Annual General Meeting
12.30 hrs	Exhibition Opens Buffet Lunch in Exhibition Area
14.00 hrs	Opening of Event Lord de Mauley, Honorary President, The Cremation Society of Great Britain
14.10 hrs	CBCE 2020 Bursary
14.15 hrs	IT Lessons Learnt from the Pandemic Chris Edge, BSc (Hons), CEO and Peter Linsell, DMS, MICCM, Bereavement Services Consultant, EDGE IT Systems Ltd
15.00 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
15.30 hrs	Huntingdon Crematorium Philip Peacock PSLCC, Town Clerk, Huntingdon Town Council
16.15 hrs	The Ministry of Justice’s post-pandemic focus for coroner, burials and cremation policy Heather Atkinson, Head of Coroners, Inquests and Inquiries Policy Team, Ministry of Justice
17.00–18.00 hrs	Networking in Exhibition Area
Evening	Welcome Barbeque on Lakeview Terrace

TUESDAY 21st JUNE
07.30 hrs	Women in Business Breakfast Chat and Networking Kate Davidson, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Dignity Plc.
09.15 hrs	Update from the National Medical Examiner Dr Alan Fletcher, FRCEM, FRCP, RCPath ME, National Medical Examiner, NHS England
10.00 hrs	The changing face of funerals Jamieson Hodgson, BA, BSc, Deputy CEO, Memoria Ltd
10.45 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
11.15 hrs	Review of Regulatory Guidance – Crematoria Simon Holbrook B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Manager – Local Authority Unit, Environment Agency
12.00 hrs	AUM – designing a crematorium for Hindu funerals Kevin Smith, BA (Hons) DipArch RIBA, Director, Marchini Curran Associates
12.45 hrs	Buffet Lunch in Exhibition Area
14.00 hrs	Tradition, Ritual Practice and British Cultural Changes Professor Douglas Davies, BA, MLitt., PhD., D.Litt., Honorary DTheol, Director, Centre for Death-Life Studies, Durham University
14.45 hrs	Direct cremation: the future of UK funerals? Dr Kate Woodthorpe, BA (Hons), MA, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
15.30 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
16.00–16.45 hrs	When The Dust Settles – Lessons from a life in disaster Professor Lucy Easthope, LLB, MSc, PhD, FHEA, FRAI, FEPS, Universities of Bath and Durham
19.15 hrs	Pre-dinner Networking in Exhibition Area
19.45 hrs	Event Dinner

WEDNESDAY 22nd JUNE
09.15 hrs	Environmental Innovation with JC Atkinson Julian Atkinson, Company Director, JC Atkinson
10.00 hrs	Integrating research, policy and practice: the experience of people bereaved during the pandemic and the role of the UK Commission on Bereavement in improving the support available for bereaved people in the UK Dr Emily Harrop, PhD, Research Fellow, Marie Curie Research Centre, Cardiff University
10.45 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
11.15 hrs	Environmental Regulation of Cemeteries Heidi Bignell, LLM, MSc, BSc, LCGI, Technical Advisor, Environment Agency
12.00 hrs	Science and Sustainability in the Funeral Sector Simon Holden, CEO, Faunus Group & Precision Organic Ltd
12.45 hrs	FBCA Presidential Handover & Closing of Event Councillor David Marren and Michael Birkenshaw
	Buffet Lunch in Exhibition Area

(All timings are approximate. Programme and speakers are subject to change.)