NOCN Level 3 Diploma in Funeral Celebrancy

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• An affordable and practical way to achieve your external qualifications in Civil Celebrancy
• Working with an ethical company with quality at its heart
• A qualification recognised by the industry
• A statement of the standard of your practice
• Reassurance to Clients at key milestones in their lives
• Self-directed learning with guidance along the way
• You decide the speed you complete
• Experienced, working Celebrants offering feedback on your progress
• Timely assessment
• Easy to use Moodle system makes the administration and assessment process simpler and more visible
• Milestones and progress clear and simple
• Access to resources, tips and guidance

We pride ourselves on our ethics and principles of fairness and accessibility. We charge what the course and the running of the course actually costs. Because we offer a self-managed learning programme, we are able to keep costs low. We don’t add money onto the training just because we can. By doing this we make the gaining of a Celebrancy qualifications more achievable for a number of people. We believe that Celebrancy external qualifications should be open and available to everyone.

This depends on the level of qualification taken, your experience as a working Celebrant and the time you are prepared to commit. We allow you:

NOCN Level 3 certificate in Civil Celebrancy – ten months

NOCN Level 3 Diploma in Funeral celebrancy – ten months

NOCNLevel 3 Diploma in Naming and Family celebrancy – ten months

NOCN Level 3 Diploma in Funeral celebrancy and Naming and Family celebrancy – twelve months

to complete each course you enrol on but this can be completed quicker.

Please note that you must log into the Learners Portal within 60 days; otherwise, the portal will mark your course dormant. Please see the Booking Terms and Conditions for further information. No attendance is needed to complete this course.

As a company we have chosen not to offer the Advance Learning Loan. The reason for this is that it has to be paid back with interest. Interest is charged from the date of the first payment. As of June 2023, the interest rate was 7.1% and the rumour is that this will change to 12%.  You only start paying when you your income reaches £27,295. Again, this is rumoured to change and be lowered. As of July 2023, celebrants are charging £200 – £250 per funeral and £600 – £800 for a wedding. It won’t take you long to earn this and then repayments must start.

To book this course just click on ‘add to basket button. Then click ‘view basket’ (you can add as many items to the basket as you wish) and select ‘Processed to checkout’. You will then be required to complete the checkout process, which requires you to answer a number of questions. Now choose how you wish to pay; you have three options. PayPal, credit or debit card or bank transfer. Please note that payments cannot be taken over the telephone.

You will need to tick to confirm that you agree to and that you have read the School of Civil Celebrancy Booking T’s & C’s. Once you have pressed proceed and payment has been made or registered, an email will be sent directly to you confirming that we have received your order. This will then be confirmed via another email when the School of Civil Celebrancy have processed your order. Please note orders are processed during office hours.

If you have any questions regarding the course booking procedure or about the qualifications we offer at the School of Civil Celebrancy, please click here for further information or telephone the School of Civil Celebrancy on 01273 974 958.

The School of Civil Celebrancy does not produce training manuals. The reason for this is that we are not teaching you to be a celebrant as you have already completed that training. However you have access to an extensive online learning resource section which is always being developed to help and guide you through your course. This means that the information can be kept up to date easily and saves you printing lengthy training manuals. We also have an extensive reading list of affordable books which are a great source of further information.

NOCN has been creating opportunities through learning and skills development for over 30 years.  NOCN Group is an educational charity whose core aims are to help learners reach their potential and organisations thrive.

 NOCN is a top fifteen Ofqual regulated Awarding Organisation.

NOCN is proud to be the very first awarding organisation to be given the ‘Leader in Diversity’ award by the National Centre for Diversity, a leader in promoting equality for all in the UK and also recognised by Ofqual, CCEA and the Welsh Government, working with a number of strategic partners in the UK and internationally.

The School of Civil Celebrancy prides itself on its accountability and transparency.

To view our terms and conditions please click here.

To view our Learners charter please click here.

To view our training policies please click here.

We don’t currently offer the new Level 4 qualifications for Funeral Celebrancy (October 2023). Whilst we fully encourage CPD, in fact we believe it is a vital part of professional Celebrancy, we also recognise that different celebrants have widely different development needs. We acknowledge that our diverse celebrant colleagues work in a variety of ways and have a multitude of specialisms. To incorporate all these wonderful, advanced and specialised attributes into one Level 4 qualification would be unworkable! So we can see that necessarily the Level 4 qualification has had to limit the advanced training to a few key areas.

There might not be a qualification available for your chosen specialism or for the area in which you are developing. Individual study via reading, training, mentoring and multi-media resources can be used to achieve the required level of skill or knowledge. As an NOCN accredited organisation, we recommend that you maintain a log of your ongoing professional development including dates, methods and summary of learned content. This way all learners are able to upskill using the learning method most suitable to their learning style.

The Level 3 Diploma in Funeral Celebrancy remains the best qualification in which you demonstrate your skill as a fully rounded funeral celebrant. It’s challenging, even for experienced celebrants. Once achieved, celebrants are confident they are highly qualified and have reached a level of expertise that far exceeds the Certificate in UK Celebrancy.

Established celebrants will find themselves gravitating to a certain niche, specialism or ways of working. Some choose to specialise in specific rituals. Others offer beautifully handcrafted stationary and mementos as part of their standard service. Some write their own poetry.

Some choose not to offer baby funerals (this can often be due to deeply personal reasons). Some work in teams or partnerships, playing to their strengths. These are just a few examples and they may not be for every celebrant. As long as Funeral directors and bereaved families receive an excellent service, we believe celebrants should work in their own unique way.

In our view, the Level 4 qualification is currently on-the-one-hand necessarily limited, but on the other too disparate. For advanced CPD, we would prefer to see a wider range of specialisms available from which celebrants may choose 4 or 5 to achieve the qualification. This would recognise a far broader range of gifts, talents and chosen specialist areas.

It would also allow for celebrants who work in partnerships or teams to concentrate on improving their specific skill set and / or niche.

With the possibility of future regulation for funeral celebrants, it is important that the recognised highest standard for a rounded funeral celebrant is the Level 3 Diploma in Funeral Celebrancy, and that the celebrant industry remain united on this point to avoid splintering into a profusion of niches.

The Level 4 qualification will suit some celebrants as their next step for CPD however, it is not for everyone and remains one option. There are a plethora of others to suit experienced, Diploma qualified funeral celebrants.

The School of Civil Celebrancy are not currently a CPD training organisation however we will keep this under review.