Simon has worked in all aspects of the funeral business and passed his Diploma in Funeral Directing in 1985, winning the Harold Rivett Award for achieving the highest marks for a London candidate. He became Managing Director in 1990. He has served on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD), as President of the European Group of Selected Independent Funeral Homes (SIFH) and has been President of the London Association of Funeral Directors (LAFD), as well as the President of the Croydon District of LAFD. He has served on the Executive Committees of both SIFH and LAFD for more than thirty years. He is a Trustee of both NAFD and LAFD and, until it was recently taken over by the Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, he was Chairman of NAFD Services Ltd, the not for profit company established by the NAFD to hold and manage funds for pre-paid funeral plans.
Simon has been happily married to Denise since 1984 and they have a daughter, Sophie, who is an English teacher in Horsham. They have two dogs, a beautiful blonde Labrador and a Shih Tzu, which they rescued whilst on holiday in Sicily. Sadly, their Jack Russell and their ancient cat both died last year. Simon enjoys rural pursuits, including fly-fishing for trout.
After a very successful career with city accountancy firm Morgan, Brown and Spofforth, he joined the company as our Finance Director in 1990.
He enjoys squash and regularly plays at the RAC at Woodcote and Pall Mall.
He is in charge of the day to day running of the business and is the very efficient and experienced right hand man to the Directors.
His direct dial telephone number is: 020 8661 5814 and his email address is: steve.lapper@watltd.co.uk.
