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Clare Oldfield - a Hertfordshire funeral celebrant

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   About Clare

I am an open-minded  St Albans-based funeral celebrant.   I respect all spiritual beliefs and views regarding death, and will listen to your family’s story with warmth and compassion. I serve Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hillingdon, but I particularly like working with local families whose life stories are embedded in the places I know well.  


I thoroughly enjoy my work, and consider it an honour to help families create personal and cathartic ceremonies to say their goodbyes.  I subscribe to ongoing professional development from The Celebrants Collective, have adopted The Celebrant Accord, am DBS cleared, and am fully insured.  


Prior to becoming a funeral celebrant, I spent twenty years working in education in both the private and state sectors, at home and abroad.  Having decided upon a change of direction, I undertook my training to become a qualified funeral celebrant with Green Fuse, attained a level 3 diploma for funeral celebrants accredited by OCN London, and have since helped over a hundred families say their goodbyes. 


When I'm not working as a funeral celebrant, I'm at my happiest reading or listening to a good book, walking my dog or catching up with family and friends.