19:00 – 21:00

If you’re coming from further away you can include a Monday night stay with hot food. Enjoy a chance to have a relaxed, informal, meet and mingle with colleagues in the private bar area, ready for the conference opening on Tuesday morning.

08:00 – 09:30

Registration & exhibition opens

09:30 – 09:40

Presidential address and conference opening

09:40 – 10:00

Mathew Crawley - ICCM Chief Executive
Building Confidence Through Community

10:00 – 10:30

Orla O'Carroll
Building Lasting legacies: Expanding into Pet Cremation and Memorial Services

10:30 – 11:00

Christina Martin
Public Health Funerals, Navigating the Unknown

11:00 – 11:30

Refreshments in the exhibition

11:30 – 12:00

Erik van Zoest
Resomation; There is a solution for everyone

12:00 – 12:30

Kate White & Leighann Heron
Unlocking Highgate Cemetery: Building the Case for a £6.7m National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch in the exhibition

13:30 – 14:00

Fiona Ross & Fiona Porter
From Pandemic Preparedness to National Resilience: Developing a Regional Mass Fatality Facility in 12 Weeks

14:00 – 14:30

Debate: The Hidden Cost of Remembrance: Should Developed Nations Ban the Import of Environmentally Non-Compliant Memorial Products? - Justin Smith & Duncan Reynolds

14:30 – 15:30

Speed learning

15:30 – 16:00

Refreshments in the exhibition

16:00 – 16:30

BRAMM
Cemetery of the Year Awards 2026

18:15 - 19:00

Drinks Reception
Sponsored by Facultatieve Technologies

19:00 - 00:00

Awards Dinner
Sponsored by Obitus

08:00 – 09:00

Registration & exhibition opens

09:00 – 09:30

Jennifer Hamilton & Oliver Thompson
Into the Deep End: Two Fresh Perspectives on a Year Within the ICCM

09:30 – 10:00

John Adams
The Silence is Over: Preparing for a New Generation of Bereavement Awareness

10:00 – 10:30

Thomas Guilbert-Newell
Pushing Up Daisies - Rewilding Our Resting Places

10:30 – 11:00

Refreshments in the exhibition                                                                             

11:00 – 11:30

Richard Mott
'Your Cremation, Your Wishes, Your Way’ caring, local, affordable funeral packages: A new model for Local Authority Cremation Services  

11:30 – 12:00

Chris Reeves
Occupational Health Risks in Crematorium Operations: Closing the Evidence Gap                                                                              

12:00 – 12:30

Huw Twamley - Medical Examiner
The Medical examiner system. Past, present and future

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch in the exhibition

13:30 – 14:00

Lisa Webley - Law Commission
New Law Commission work on Rights and Obligations Relating to Funerary Methods, Funerals and Remains

14:00 – 14:30

Michelle Forbes
‍Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (Martyn’s Law) – An Update

14:30 – 15:15

Madelon Klaus & Julie Dunk
Value, Transparency and Sustainability: The Questions Every Crematorium Should Be Asking

15:15 – 15:30

Close of conference