Mansfield’s crematorium and the four Mansfield District Council-run cemeteries in the district — Mansfield, Mansfield Woodhouse, Warsop and Pleasley Hill — have achieved gold awards for their responsive and caring approach to helping the bereaved, under the Charter for the Bereaved scheme run by the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management.

The crematorium is run jointly by Mansfield, Ashfield and Newark and Sherwood cistrict Councils.

Director and registrar of Mansfield and District Crematorium Sally Curtis, third left, is pictured with the crematorium and cemetery teams and their gold awards

The charter is the only recognised monitoring of cemeteries and crematoria. It checks things such as what facilities cemeteries and crematoria provide, what procedures and legalities they follow and what information is available to the public on the services offered.