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In 1992 CORNWALL HUMANISTS, recognising the need for atheists & agnostics to be cremated or buried with
a ceremony compatable with their beliefs, trained and appointed celebrants to conduct dignified, non-religious ceremonies,
'tailor made' to the requirements of the deceased and their family. We see it as celebrating a life. Since then
we have grown and developed into a well-known and well respected part of Cornwall's funeral industry.
We have also broadened our reach into conducting weddings, namings and gay affirmations. We've even conducted
a 'mayoral inauguration'.
We are happy to advise and/or assist those wishing to conduct a ceremony themselves.
We are available for 'talks' to groups and organizations.
Our celebrants are;
I have been a Humanist celebrant for nearly 30 years. I help families and couples create funerals, weddings
for both hetero and homo sexual couples, namings. I very much enjoy helping create ceremonies which reflect
just what is appropriate in each situation.
I created and conducted a mayoral ceremony for a long time colleague and a ceremony for a couple celebrating
thirty years of marriage who had first contacted me through their father's funeral. It is particularly rewarding
to do a number of ceremonies for the same family.
I conducted my first funeral on behalf of Cornwall Humanists
in 1992 and It's now become a major part of my life. The privilege of being able to
help people through a traumatic stage in their lives gives me great satisfaction.
I cover the whole of Cornwall and have ventured into Devon and Dorset.
It's a short, sideways step into wedding and baby naming ceremonies.
My first wedding was in 1997, as was my first gay affirmation.
My first naming in 1998. We are lucky in Cornwall. Many couples choose to have ceremonies
here as we have some beautiful, even
spectacular sites for such occasions. I have conducted
ceremonies in hotels, beaches, woods,
Carn Brea Monument, in the ruins of
Restormal Castle, a farm, a front
garden, a back garden, even in a cave. Also
in a number of Youth Hostels, some you can rent for a
week-end. Each and every one is unique.
Brought up in a Humanist family in Cornwall, I left to become a teacher and lived in South Yorkshire for 40 years. I retired recently and came back home to live in Redruth in January 2008.
On our return, I joined Cornwall Humanists, which my parents with others founded many years ago, and was last year invited to become a Celebrant.
I conducted my first Wedding Ceremony this summer on the beach at the beautiful Trebah Gardens and found it to be a very special experience. I look forward to helping other couples plan and design their ceremony to be exactly what they want it to be.
I have been a humanist for many years and always felt it wrong that people who live their lives without religion
should have a religious ceremony at the end of their life.
I have taken a number of non religious ceremonies for friends and relatives during this time and it gave me great satisfaction to know that
that their wishes were carried out.
My main motivation
is to ensure that the friends and family get a real opportunity to both grieve and celebrate the life of the deceased.
For further information contact one of our celebrants or; contact us