Open Prepaid Funerals Limited launched in 2003 with the aim of providing a secure prepaid funeral plan for independent funeral directors in the UK to offer to their clients, our plan holders. Open have a reputation for honesty and transparency and excellent customer service. Since 2003 thousands of people have chosen Open for their funeral planning needs. We are now working in an FCA regulated environment and we have chosen to operate a business model where the funeral directors we work with are called Introducer Appointed Representatives (IARs). An IAR will introduce the consumer to our team of trained OPF advisers who will take them through the FCA regulated process of taking out a prepaid funeral plan. This model ensures that they can be confident when purchasing an Open Prepaid Funeral Plan through an OPF Adviser that they are being treated fairly, clearly and professionally. For all but the largest funeral directors, funeral plans are an important but small part of your day-to-day activities, you are busy caring for families at their time of need. The funeral directors that choose Open do so because they trust our behaviour and ethos and they trust our team. They don’t have the time for all that goes with being authorised to sell prepaid funeral plans so they put their trust in our experienced team. After all, you’re funeral directors not financial advisers. Funeral directors have confidence in Open because since our launch back in 2003, Open have only ever received the fixed admin fee of £195.00 from the plan holder, 100% of the remaining balance of the full plan price paid by the plan holder remains in the Open Prepaid Funerals Trust for the life of the plan. It’s a simple, clear and morally correct business model. They trust in Open because they can.