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Level 4 - Funeral Celebrancy
Course Assessors

The assessors will not only assess your delivery and handling of various elements of the course, they will also give you constructive feedback to further help you develop your skills. They are experienced professional celebrants as well as trained assessors and tutors. You will meet some of the following tutor/assessors on your assessment day:

Kirstie Atherton

Kirstie is a distance learning assessor for the Level 3 Diploma and the Advanced Practice Diploma in Funeral Celebrancy. Kirstie holds the Level 3 and Level 4 Diplomas and was the very first celebrant to achieve the Level 4 Diploma. She also holds a BA First Class Honours degree in English Literature and an MA in Creative Writing. Kirstie is a practising celebrant and was the Association of Green Funeral Directors’ Celebrant of the Year in 2022. Kirstie loves her work as a celebrant and wants to help both new trainees and progressing celebrants to enhance the ceremonies that they offer. Kirstie is especially passionate about promoting celebrancy as a profession and raising standards so that all those grieving are able to benefit from the comfort that is inherent in a really good funeral.

Anne Barber

Anne has a wealth of experience and expertise to share with you and a passion for high-quality training. Anne is Managing Director of Civil Ceremonies Ltd, which she created in 2002. Her previous career included several director-level roles. She has been instrumental in establishing Civil Funerals in the UK, and she is the founder of
the Institute of Civil Funerals. She is a trustee of the Child Funeral Charity and her qualifications include a BA(Hons) Degree in Business Studies and an MBA.

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        IT Skills you will need both during your training and working as a celebrant

        Do you have the following skills:

        1. Ability in creating, naming, using, saving and retrieving files and folders.
        2. Familiarity with using your version of Word (or similar software).
        3. Understanding of toolbars and icons.
        4. Ability to copy and paste sections of text.
        5. An understanding of ‘track changes’ and how to use this function.
        6. Ability to bold, underline and italicise text.
        7. Be able to change font type, size and colour.
        8. Ability to centre text in the middle of a page and right and left justify it.
        9. Be able to alter line spacing in a document and insert a page break.
        10. Be able to use the undo and redo functions.
        11. Understand how the tab key works.
        12. Ability to use headers and footers, bullet points and numbering
        13. Understanding of the difference between ‘Save’ and ‘Save As’.

        If you said ‘yes’ to all of the above then you have good basic skills.

        If you have answered ‘no’ to any of the above then you will need to improve your basic skills before starting the course. This can be done in a few hours by using one or more of the free online tutorials available on the internet.