One of the causes dear to our hearts - Quaker Social Action - in the East End of London, has just won the Guardian Charity Award 2012 for Down to Earth, their project to work against funeral poverty, by beating almost 1000 entries.
The honour is given for QSA's work with bereaved families preventing them from paying over the odds for a funeral and so avoiding ending up deeper in debt and despair. When the loss of a loved one is made worse by the dread of paying to give them a good send off, the anxiety, grief and guilt is devastating. This project makes a meaningful funeral affordable, enabling grieving relatives to say goodbye without debt or regret. In just 2 years it has saved its clients over £100,000 in funeral expenses.
They achieve this by using trained mentors within the community to guide people at these difficult times. Shaun Powell, Manager of Down to Earth got in touch on the announcement of the award:
'We'd like to take this chance to thank Dead Good Guides as long term friends of the project for your support over the last couple of years and look forward to our future work together. Individuals such as yourselves who are dedicated to enabling equality of access to compassionate end of life care and meaningful, cost effective funerals for people with little money to spend.
We held a ceremony to recognise the members of the community supported by mentors - a real gift from yourselves via your books Engineers of the Imagination and The Dead Good Funerals Book.
A good ceremony hath more value than precious rubies !
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