Renewing your vows

Renewing your vows

You don’t have to be a celebrity to renew your wedding vows, as our celebrant Tim Maguire told John Beattie on BBC Radio Scotland’s Drivetime show, and you don’t have to go all the way to the Maldives either. Tim’s conversation was the last item in the...
welcome, lyeona!

welcome, lyeona!

We are very pleased to welcome Lyeona Anderton to our celebrant body, and delighted to see that she’s already making news! Lyeona had an unusual journey to becoming a celebrant. As Kevin Janiak wrote in the Southern Reporter, “The working mum of three was...
Christmas: the birth of humanism?

Christmas: the birth of humanism?

In his timely essay, Tom Morton says it’s possible to argue that “the story of Christmas, the advent of The Divine as a human baby, is really about how humanism was born. How the morality, the values in the story of Christ – identical with what we...
To absent friends – biggest ever

To absent friends – biggest ever

It was heartwarming to get the end of year newsletter from Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief this morning and learn that this year’s ‘To Absent Friends’ festival was the biggest ever. it ran from 1-7 November and it included more than forty events of...
Wild & Sustainable

Wild & Sustainable

Our motto is “Celebrate a life, celebrate love, celebrate the earth,” so we were delighted to learn that we’ve now planted 463 trees with Trees for Life at their base at Dundreggan, in the Scottish Highlands. We share their vision of a revitalised...