The Cremation Society of Great Britain

Aims of the Society

The objects for which the Society is established, as expressed its current Memorandum of Association, are:-

• to promote the practice of cremation for the respectful disposal of the bodies of dead persons;
• to advance public education in the practice and ethics of cremation; and
• to investigate methods of disposing of the bodies of dead persons which appear to the Society to be superior to cremation and, if the Society thinks fit, to promote such methods and advance public education in their practice and ethics either instead or or in addition to cremation.

In pursuance of these objects the Society has power, among other things, to

• to organise meetings and lectures, to foster research and to disseminate knowledge about cremation by any other appropriate means
• to co-operate with other organisations and individuals, both national and international
• to encourage the highest operational and ethical standards in cremation practice through the establishment, ownership, management of or investment in crematoria and associated facilities and by such other means as the Council thinks fit
• in respect of any method of disposing of the bodies of dead persons other than cremation which the Society decides to investigate or promote, to act in a like manner as it can act in respect of cremation
• to pay for the cost of cremation for deceased members and others