Isramart:University of East Anglia scheme helps inject new carbon neutral ideas into firm

Isra-Mart news:
A Diss funeral service is developing its first carbon neutral funeral thanks to a scheme which allows university graduates paid work placements.

Rosedale Funeral Home in Diss welcomed recent graduate Charlene Wenn in March for a ten-week internship, during which she worked out the firm’s carbon footprint and created a proposal for the carbon neutral funeral.

As well as the environmental savings, the business has also cut costs.

Funeral home director Anne Beckett-Allen said: “I really wanted to develop a carbon neutral funeral but I knew I was going to struggle to do this on my own, partly due to workload and partly due to not knowing where to start and manage the whole project.”

The University of East Anglia scheme, called Project Evolve, is designed to give firms an injection of new talent, while allowing the recent graduate vital experience on their CV.