Who is the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand?
The Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand is an association of funeral directing firms carrying out the majority of funerals in New Zealand.
Membership of the Funeral Directors Association is your assurance of a meaningful farewell. Only Funeral Directors Association members are committed to a set of best practice industry standards and inspections to ensure they are met.
You can depend on the integrity of the Funeral Directors Association Member. The choice to join and be accepted as a member means a commitment to provide a thoroughly professional and high-quality service.
A Funeral Directors Association member is a caring professional who is there for you when sadness makes it hard to think clearly to act as your:
- Advisor
- Administrator
- Event planner
- Grief supporter
- Caregiver
Your funeral director is dedicated to helping you cope with your grief by working with you to provide a meaning farewell that has due regard for the ethnic origin and spiritual beliefs of your loved ones and your family.
Our Vision
Meaningful farewells
Our Mission
To promote meaningful farewells through leadership, education and public awareness
Our Values
Members of the Funeral Directors Association are guided by the following values:
Compassion
We are mindful of what others are facing and act in such a way as to demonstrate our care and concern for them. We will use all our experience and wisdom to improve their condition as far as we reasonably can.
Integrity
We are honest and authentic in all we say to each other and act with transparency in all we do so that our words and actions can be trusted and relied upon.
Respect
We treat others in the way that we would wish to be treated and regard what they say to be authentic and genuine. We recognise that others may have opinions, traditions or other characteristics that are different from our own and we will not let them be a barrier to working with them.
Our Standards
Specifically, members and their employees , through membership of the Association, have agreed to these Standards
