A Community Undertaking
Australian Story on ABC News
16 June 2022
Filmed over 10 months, giving an insiders perspective of how Tender Funerals provides a different model of funeral services . . . “an extraordinarily intimate view of a process we rarely get to see”.
Tender Funerals Story
Animation depicting the under-pinning values of Tender Funerals, bringing community back into the sacredness of after death care.
Tender Documentary
A feisty and resilient community group have determined to take back the responsibility that most of us leave to someone else – to care for their own dead.
End of Life Notebook
This online planning tool is far more than a funeral plan, it is a wholistic way-finding guide to the end of life, our dying and our funeral wishes.
NEWS ARTICLES
RADIO & PODCASTS
Not-for-profit funeral service to mark first birthday with open day and tours
Region Canberra
3 September 2025
Tender’s online tool helps open the door to difficult conversations about death
Region Illawarra
27 March 2025
Cost of living hits cost of dying: Burials out of reach for Illawarra families
Illawarra Mercury (subscription access)
2 June 2024
ABC Illawarra Mornings (starts 20:16)
19 March 2026
Don’t be Caught Dead
18 July 2024
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Tender Funerals Australia
9 March 2026
More Tender in the Media
Making a Will – for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
8 Feb 2022 | YouTube video by Tender Funerals
“The impacts of sorry business can be profound. We, as Aboriginal people, need to think serioiusly about penning wills and thinking about our loved ones . . .”
Phil Duncan / Gomeroi Elder
One final act of tenderness for Margie
November 2024 | Geelong Advertiser (subscription access)
“A terminal cancer diagnosis has spurred Margie Galpin to face death head-on and do her bit to help others . . .”
May 2024 | The Guardian
“Australians have been turning to DIY funerals, crowdsourcing and buy now, pay later loans – with more people getting into debt . . .”
Death, dying and non-profit funerals with Catherine Bell
8 February 2024 | Women’s Voice on YassFM
Affordable and Fair Funerals with a Tender Touch
31 January 2020 | Sydney Morning Herald
“Outraged by the number of people she knew who went into debt to fund a funeral, Jenny Briscoe-Hough wanted to give bereaved families an affordable alternative . . .”