The Memorial Awareness Board

Who we are:

The Memorial Awareness Board is a campaigning organisation working on behalf of memorial masons to promote the industry by means of a three-track campaign:

• A high profile PR campaign targeted at the general public and the media in order to increase overall awareness of the importance of memorialisation.
• A campaign targeted at the managers and regulators of burial grounds with the aim of promoting maximum co-operation between memorial masons and burial authorities.
• A campaign within the industry itself designed to increase solidarity, build “team spirit” and maximise the collective potential to increase the market for memorials.

Key Messages:

MAB’s message to the general public

• The most appropriate way to commemorate your loved ones when they die is with a stone memorial.
• If choosing a cremation you should still have the same right to commemorate your loved one in stone as those choosing burials.
• The type and design of memorial as well as the inscription should be according to your wishes.
• The Memorial Awareness Board can assist you on matters concerning memorialisation.

MAB’s message to local authorities, diocesan officials, cemetery managers

• A stone memorial celebrates a life and provides an enduring record for the deceased as well as giving peace of mind and a focus for grief.
• The most appropriate way to commemorate life is with a stone memorial.
• Cremated remains deserve equal memorialisation status to buried remains.
• The bereaved should be able to choose the type and design of memorial as well as the inscription according to their wishes or those of the deceased.
• The Memorial Awareness Board will always be helpful and co-operative in the furtherance of good relations between masons and authorities.

MAB’s message to the memorial industry

• MAB promotes the marketing of memorials, runs campaigns that are relevant to everyone in the industry and works with and on behalf of memorial masons.
• All activities are carried out in close consultation with the National Association of Memorial Masons (NAMM) and all burial authorities.
• MAB remains constantly aware that it can only achieve these objectives with the support from memorial masons in the form of a levy - this is only 1% of material costs and is collected through wholesalers.