Registration Scheme for Memorial Masons

To make any repairs or install any new headstones or memorials in our cemeteries and churchyards you must be registered on our Scheme for Memorial Masons.

Once on the scheme a memorial mason needs to apply for approval for each repair or installation they want to do.

You can join the scheme if you are a memorial mason and you meet the eligibility requirements.

A memorial mason must be registered on the scheme to work within any cemetery or churchyard under the management of the council.

Once registered, Scheme Members must ensure that any work carried out by them or on their behalf by any person working for them directly or as a sub-contractor or in any other capacity is in full compliance with the scheme rules and regulations.

Read the full Scheme Rules and Regulations.

There is no cost to join the scheme.

You’ll need to:

• be registered with RQMF (Register of Qualified Memorial Fixers)
• or be able to provide a current certificate of compliance, which certifies that all work carried out in relation to the installation of a memorial, complies with British Standard 8415 supported by the National Association of Memorial Masons (NAMM) Code of Working Practice and British Register of Accredited Memorial Masons (BRAMM) The Blue Book.

You’ll need to provide a sample copy of the certificate of compliance you’ll use.

All certificates or register entries must be within the date of the Scheme Membership tenure, which runs for 12 months.

To apply you need to complete and sign the application form and declaration.

When you do this you agree to comply with the following law and standards (including as subsequently amended or reenacted):

• Renfrewshire Council’s Cemetery Policy and Management Rules
• NAMM Code of Working Practice (latest relevant edition)
• BRAMM The Blue Book
• The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
• British Standard 8415:2005
• other relevant British Standards
• all other relevant statutory requirements
• the terms of this Registration Scheme for Memorial Masons.

If we accept you onto the scheme we’ll give you a permit to display in your vehicle when you’re working in our cemeteries.

You’ll need to renew your place on the scheme every 12 months, if you want to stay on the scheme.
 

You’ll need to apply for approval each time that you want to repair an existing memorial or to install a new one.

Once you’re accepted on the scheme we’ll send you:

• memorial permission forms
• a checklist to get each stage of work approved.

List of memorial masons registered to work in our cemeteries

If you need to repair or install a new memorial in one of our cemeteries or churchyards you can only use a memorial mason from this list:

• Garner Memorials, 130 Hawkhead Road, Paisley, PA2 7BE. Phone 0141 848 5938.
• Quinn Memorials, 42 Main Street, Kilbirnie, KA25 7BY. Phone 01505 685 455.
• McPherson Memorials, 5 High Street, Johnstone, PA5 8JZ. Phone 01505 321 166.
• Whiteside Memorials, Unit 6 Drumfrochar Place, Greenock, PA15 4BJ. Phone 0141 721 325.
• Robertson Memorials, 499 Windmillhill Street, ML1 2UF. Phone 01698 265 197.
• MacIntyre Memorials, 38 Watt Road, Glasgow, G52 4RY. Phone 0141 882 3772.