We are the first company to achieve this award with the maximum score of 100%. When we built our present Head Office facilities back in 2013, we built in as many environmentally features as possible. This included rainwater harvesting, low energy lighting with motion sensors, underfloor heating, mechanical heating and ventilation recovery system, high levels of insulation and 78 solar panels. This enabled us to get an initial Energy Performance Certificate rating of 23 (A)

lan Hazel has said: “Despite all our environmentally friendly features, reaching Platinum Level was not guaranteed – let alone achieve the 100% score. We have had to look very hard at a lot of our policies and practices and think “outside the box” to ensure we are running the company in the best environmentally way possible. We have now introduced our first all-electric Ambulance, and this is supported by three other hybrid vehicles.  Whilst our main funeral fleet are presently petrol/diesel based, we are looking to the future when they can become all electric, as suitable vehicle become available. 

This scheme has made us think about many things we used to take for granted. We now ensure engines are not left idling when stationery, clients are made aware of all the Eco-Friendly options that can be used, from coffins to burial grounds. Room thermostats are turned down to a more economical level.  We are more conscious about recycling items, and our impact upon the local community.  We have even ensured that our preferred suppliers including florists have an environmental policy that fits in with our aims.  We are now more careful when choosing things like cleaning material, to ensure they have less impact upon the environment.”

On March 12th 2025 Brendan and Carolyn Day, founders of the ” Greener Globe Funeral Standards attended the Head Office of lan Hazel Funerals, Lichfield Road, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, to present the company with its Platinum Award Plaque, and the Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP for Sutton Coldfield was also in attendance, to show his support.

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After Lynne told Zoe Sutton was short of the Daniel Baird Foundation Bleed Control kits, Zoe set about fundraising to get at least one in the town. That mission was achieved in just 45 minutes of her GoFundMe page going live at the end of May, after Seb Clough from onethebreadline bakery said he would pay for the whole thing – giving £600 to do so.

And Zoe carried on and raised £1,500 and has already handed bleed control pouches to Sutton primary school, Moor Hall, The Arthur Terry School and at Seb’s bakers at Hillcrest Farm in Worcester Lane, near Harvest Fields. She will hand over more pouches to Streetly Academy, John Willmott School and Bishop Walsh School secondary schools and to New Hall Primary School, in September.

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While plans are to also install kits at The White Horse pub in Whitehouse Common Road and at the Town Hall in Sutton, with further hopes to get another cabinet in the centre of town. The move comes after a string of stabbings in Sutton in recent weeks. One in Lindridge Road in July and two in as many days in Falcon Lodge in May.

And few in the town will forget the murder of Ozell Pemberton, who was just 16, after a stabbing incident outside McDonald’s in May 2018. Zoe, who works for West Midlands Police, but did the fundraising in a personal capacity, said: “I decided to fundraise to get bleed kits in Sutton Coldfield after doing partnership work with Lynne Baird. I spoke to Lynne and she said there were not many kits in Sutton.

“There is one inside McDonald’s and one at the Gracechurch Centre. But we wanted cabinets outside that anyone can access.”

Original Article: Nick Horner, Senior Reporter, Birmingham Live

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