admin_Jen, Author at SAIF Insure

Nov 09 2021

Fundraising for Winston’s Wish 2021

SAIFInsure were delighted to accompany friends and clients earlier this year and support the SAIF President’s, Mark Porteous, with raising funds for his chosen charity, Winston’s Wish for a gentle stroll of either 25, 50 or 100km in the Lake District.

Winston’s Wish is dedicated to supporting young children who have lost parents and we are proud to have been able to raise over £13,500 for this wonderful charity. The weather was very warm and the route incredibly demanding up plenty of sharp hills but the team pushed on to ensure that we reached the finish.

Thank you to everyone who supported us again this year.

Nov 08 2021

Matthew Gallagher Award 2021

SAIFInsure were proud and delighted to work alongside Chris Parker, Director of Curriculum Development at IFD College and sponsor the inaugural Matthew Gallagher Award which recognises those within the funeral profession who have overcome challenges to achieve their Independent Funeral Directors College (IFD) exams.

The award was a specially commissioned piece to represent Matthew and our thanks go to the Artist, Gary Scott, who did an incredible job at interpreting thoughts and ideas into sculpture.

The first recipient was Lewis Tout from Julie Sullivan Funeral Directors who deservedly received the award from Pat Gallagher and Christine Parker at a ceremony in Hertfordshire on 30th June this year.

Nov 08 2021

Independence in the Insurance Industry

Terry Tennens, SAIF’s Chief Executive, has noticed that some insurance brokers are part of a large conglomerate, that was bought a few years ago and recently resold to another conglomerate. This can impact customer service, with remote and untrained customer service handlers that uniquely impacts Funeral Directors who offer a fast and responsive service, that cannot wait. With this in mind, we asked one of the UK’s leading specialists in the funeral sector to comment, Brian Hart of SAIFInsure:

“The word independent has many connotations in different industries and SAIF itself was established to preserve the very independent nature of the family funeral director.

The insurance industry uses the phrase in a different manner. You’ll see many businesses describe themselves as “independent insurance brokers” and many customers will assume this refers to their structure, ownership or culture when in fact this simply means that they have more than one insurance agency with differing insurers.

SAIFInsure is “independently owned” and this is a phrase we will utilise more and more to emphasise to SAIF members and clients that we are not owned by Venture Capital/Asset Management companies or similar like many of our competitors and is seemingly endemic of the insurance broker market.

We pride ourselves on “true independence” and personal service to our customers with your interests to the fore, not those of a corporate master.”

Jul 20 2021

Direct FCA Authorisation

“SAIFInsure are delighted to confirm our direct FCA authorisation with effect from the 19^th July 2021 under our parent company, Unicorn I B Ltd.

We have been operating as Appointed Representatives of Momentum Broker Solutions Ltd since 2017 but it was always our long term ambition to be directly authorised as we continue our growth. We will now have our own direct agency with our scheme providers, Aviva Insurance and you will notice there are some changes to our payment arrangements with new banking details which will all be made clear on our invoices.

The growth in our business continues to be sustained and we are grateful to all our customers, suppliers and introducers who have been instrumental in making the business what it is today. On a personal note, my continued thanks to the team for all their enthusiasm, efforts and energy.

The next stage begins and we look forward to building the business still further whilst retaining our culture of a quality driven service and advice from a truly independent insurance broker for SAIF and its membership, associates and the independent funeral sector.”

Brian Hart

Managing Director

Feb 22 2021

SAIF Presidents’ Challenge 2021

After many SAIF Presidents’ Challenges over the years, the 2021 challenge is in support of Winston’s Wish, a Cheltenham-based Charity offering emotional and practical bereavement support to children, young people and their families

A team of 15 will be undertaking personal challenges ranging from 25k- 100k over a 24 hour period over the weekend of the 12th/13th June 2021. Within SAIF and it’s Associates, the team includes: Mark Porteous and his son Grant, Arran Brudenell, Simon Rossiter, Ross Hickton, Brian Stock, Gary Staker, Cat Betley and Bob Spittle and SaifInsure’s own, Brian Hart.

More information about the challenge can be found at www.ultrachallenge.com.

Our team would be delighted to receive messages in advance and during the event and we would be incredibly grateful if you were able to support us and Winston’s Wish this year, you can donate here.

We look forward to sharing tales of blisters and creaking bones after the event!