Forget $3000 caskets, meet the guy who paints cardboard coffins in Canberra
RiotAct 28 November 2022 The wooden stick dips into the jar of ‘green curry paste’ and heads for the cardboard, charged with light purple acrylic paint. Gregory Andrews is a Dharawal man from southwest Sydney but today he’s in his South Canberra garage, adding the...
Tender Comment: The what, how and why of being a social franchise
Tender Funerals is structured as a social franchise, with Tender Funerals services operating as social franchisees of Tender Funerals Australia. With the concept of social franchising still fairly new in Australia, we're often asked what this means, how it works, and...
Port Kembla’s Tender Funerals expands across the country providing an affordable yet memorable service
Illawarra Mercury 15 June 2022 A community-based model to ensure funerals don't leave loved ones in mountains of debt is finally taking off around the country, thanks to a dedicated group in Port Kembla. Not-for-profit Tender Funerals has just expanded with a funeral...
Tender Funerals Mid North Coast launch celebrates community support
Port News 9 June 2022 A push to bring the Tender Funerals' not-for-profit funeral service model to the region started with a working group formed in 2019. The group of volunteers launched into fundraising, community engagement and community education. They staged...
Tender Comment: Collapse of Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund
Recently it was announced that the group of funeral funds known as the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund or Youpla has gone into liquidation, leaving around 15,000 First Nations funeral policy holders unable to pay for their funerals. This is a disaster for the many...
Tender Funerals Mid North Coast creates crowdfunding campaign for healing garden
Port News 25 March 2022 Tender Funerals Mid North Coast has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the establishment of a healing garden. Tender Funerals is a registered charity, newly established in the Hastings, offering holistic funerals and community...
Media release: Videos highlight Wills risk for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
8 February 2022 The risks for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of not having a Will are highlighted in videos launched by Tender Funerals Australia today. Developed for communities and service providers, the free online videos encourage Aboriginal and...
Media release: Organisations call for extra time for funeral policy holders to claim against failed funeral insurance fund
Financial Counselling Australia, Tender Funerals Australia and Social Ventures Australia (SVA) are supporting the call from Mob Strong Debt Help and the Financial Rights Legal Centre to ensure First Nations people are paid the refunds they are owed in full following...
How funerals are changing
ABC The Signal Broadcast 19 May 2021 Listen here: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/the-signal/future-funeral/13260270 Funerals in Australia are changing. The death rituals of past generations aren't necessarily the right fit for people dying today, or for those...
At the Community Coffin Club in Ulverstone, living and dying well are part of life
ABC Northern Tasmania By Rick Eaves 11 August 2021 Leon Beveridge is wearing black Docs, a black shirt and even a black 'New York' kilt. It's appropriate attire for a man with a rock'n'roll past, present, future and after-life. But the punk bass player with terminal...
Building soon to start on home for Tender Funerals Mid North Coast
Port News By Lisa Tisdell 30 July 2021 Tender Funerals Mid North Coast is about to reach a pivotal point. Construction of Tender Funerals Mid North Coast's home base in Wauchope will start in August. It is hoped the service will be operational in March 2022. The...
Affordable funerals with community-run funeral service
Goulburn Post By Neha Attre 13 July 2021 Jenny Briscoe-Hough (L), founder of Tender Funerals with Catherine Bell and Bearyn O'Donnell, directors of Tender Funerals Canberra Region after a meeting with The Snow Foundation. The loss of a loved one is a traumatic...
Tender Funerals to hold day of commemoration with picnic, get-together on Sunday
Illawarra Mercury By Ben Langford 18 June 2021 This weekend will see the annual Tender Funerals "Our Community Remembers" picnic which will remember all those who have died, been hit by bushfires or COVID, and suffered other losses. The innovative funeral group, which...
Community-based funeral service at Port Kembla receives a NSW government funding boost
Illawarra Mercury By Greg Ellis 19 March 2021 Expansion: Funeral director Amy Sagar reveals big plans for Tender Funerals. Pictures: Sylvia Liber. The transformation of the old Port Kembla Fire Station into a community-based funeral service will receive a $347,000...
Jenny Briscoe-Hough: We have to give up the idea of what will I get out of it?
The Guardian. By Caroline Baum 23 March 2018 Everyone who comes into the Foundery Cafe on the main street of Port Kembla in New South Wales stops to say hello to Jennifer Briscoe-Hough. She’s so involved in every aspect of the hardscrabble community’s life, she might...
Tender Funerals: Port Kembla community throws support behind affordable funeral parlour
ABC News By William Verity 25 January 2016 With the standard funeral leaving little change from $10,000, it is no surprise that money, more than religion, is often uppermost in the minds of families when a loved one dies. That is particularly true when those families...
Non-traditional funerals are changing how families and loved ones say goodbye
Sydney Morning Herald By Julie Power 18 March 2017 Sam Aulton's husband and young daughters weren't ready to say goodbye when the 46-year-old died in hospital last December of complications associated with breast cancer. Instead of an undertaker ushering Ms Aulton's...
Best of 2018: Jenny Briscoe-Hough
ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler Broadcast 11 December 2018 Listen here: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/jenny-briscoe-hough-best-of/10583146 After her mother died, Jenny had an epiphany about the business of funerals. Although Jenny and her...
Consumer advocacy group investigates the world of DIY funerals
news.com.au By James Hall 29 May 2019 With the average cost of a funeral edging towards $10,000, some Australians are turning to “do it yourself” alternatives. But it’s not for the squeamish. An investigation by consumer advocacy group Choice shines a light on the...
Woven coffins and affordable funerals as community-run funeral service breathes new life into the death trade
ABC Illawarra By Sarah Moss and Renee Sant 3 April 2019 Creative and emotionally healthy funerals are making waves in communities that value personal choices, resourcefulness and good old wholesome naturalness, but for reasons of expense they also appeal to blue...