Two women, passionate about changing the way we think about funerals, are in line for a top industry award. Independent celebrants Kate Tym and Kate Dyer have won their way through to the finals of The Association of Green Funeral Directors, Good Funeral Awards, in the category of Funeral Celebrant of the Year. The Kates […]
Stuart Baillie first met Kate Tym and Kate Dyer more than a year ago and has been fascinated by their ‘Coffin Club’ ever since. This week he went along to a meeting to find what it’s all about… When I first heard about a group called ‘Coffin Club’ I wondered what it was all […]
When Miriam Margolyes came to Hastings to make a film with Coffin Club’s Kate Tym and Kate Dyer she only planned to visit once but she enjoyed the experience so much she’s been back not just once, but twice and has even become the charity’s Patron “Miriam and her film crew came along to our […]
It’s been less than two years since Kate Tym and Kate Dyer set up Coffin Club in Hastings and an invite to meet the Queen received this week is the latest significant achievement on their road to breaking the taboo that surrounds talking about death. The invite to Windsor Castle in April is to help […]
Kate Tym and John Knowles of It’s Not Us Theatre Company are back for a third year with their sell-out Christmas show, A Penny Pincher’s Christmas Carol. “Every year we get requests from our audiences to put it on again,” says Kate, “they tell us it wouldn’t be Christmas without it and we are more […]
When Kate Tym and Kate Dyer brought Coffin Club to Hastings just over a year ago they could have foreseen just how things would take off. “I think we just hit the zeitgeist,” said Kate Dyer. Coffin Club is funeral planning with a twist and arrived in Hastings in September last year the Kates who are […]
