About Us
Celebrate People is built on care, compassion, and creativity. Our celebrants are here to guide you, listen to your wishes, and craft ceremonies that reflect our values and beliefs and feel deeply personal and meaningful to all.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to make our beliefs in equality, compassion and love tangible. We honour life’s most meaningful moments with ceremonies that reflect the individuality of the people they celebrate. In doing so, we aim to create experiences that leave a lasting impression and resonate deeply with everyone involved.
Inclusive and Here For You
We believe in people – in you – above any historical dogma or doctrine. At life’s most significant moments, we trust you know what feels right. That’s why we’re here: to guide and support you in any way we can. Whether it’s celebrating life, offering pastoral care and counselling, or welcoming love and new beginnings, we give our all to every part of our work.
Our Organisation
As a not-for-profit, we support charities such as hospice care organisations, Toilet and Fridge Twinning, Trees for Life in Scotland, and Plan International, which focuses on girls’ education in India. In addition, guided by humanist principles, we offer spiritual care through ceremonies, chaplaincy, and pastoral support.
Our Values
Compassion
We create space for everyone to feel seen and values
Empathy
We listen with care and understanding, ensuring your experience feels supportive and meaningful.
Kindness and Equality
We create a culture where everyone is respected and uplifted
Our Promise
Our founders, Gerrie and Susan, campaigned tirelessly for Equal Marriage for over 20 years. On 31st December 2014, they became the first women in Scotland to marry in a ceremony under the new law. Since then, we’ve conducted thousands of ceremonies. Every one of our highly trained celebrants receives extensive mentoring, professional development, and regular reviews to maintain the highest standards.
We promise to put you first with a person-centred approach rooted in kindness, equality, and respect. Our team brings care, empathy, and even a touch of fun when the moment calls for it.
At Celebrate People, we live our values every day. With fairness and integrity at the heart of our work, we aim to exceed your expectations and create moments filled with love and meaning.
We believe in...
Unconditional Compassion
We believe in the deep bonds that connect every living being – human and animal – across the planet we share. Love and kindness are at the heart of what we do, and we celebrate these connections through person-centred interaction, care, and compassion. This commitment shines through in every part of our work, from how we communicate with others to the way we collaborate as an organisation.
Belief and Religious Harmony
We embrace belief and religious pluralism, fostering understanding and respect for all faiths and traditions. Peace in the world can grow only when people live together in harmony. Our approach reflects humanist values and beautifully blends with our expression of universal humanism.
Equality
Championing equality and diversity means celebrating each person’s individuality while promoting inclusion and acceptance. We stand proudly with the LGBTQIA+ community – including trans and non-binary people – and remain deeply committed to compassion and respect. By honouring both similarities and differences, we create spaces where everyone feels seen, supported, and valued.
Our Statement of Belief
Celebrate People is a group of like-minded people promoting humanist and spiritual values. Our belief system offers a moral compass for compassionate behaviours and sustainable living. We believe through celebrating our human connections, we give our lives meaning and purpose. We believe empathy has a spiritual dimension and is key to respect, healing and peace for every person regardless of who they are. Our beliefs are a spiritual expression of the humanist principles in the The Amsterdam Declaration 2022 and the Scottish Government’s Framework Discovering meaning, purpose and hope through person centred wellbeing and spiritual care: framework – gov.scot
- Unconditional compassion
At CELEBRATE we believe in the bonds between every living being, human and animal, across this planet we all share. We promote loving kindness to all and celebrate our connection through person centred interaction, care and compassion. We believe we are all joined in a way that we don’t necessarily understand. Through our way of being we strive to support one another to develop these unseen connections with love as part of our journey through life. We also hold that through respect for the earth itself we are in turn supporting all living beings.
- Belief and religious harmony
At CELEBRATE we embrace belief and religious pluralism. We respect and encourage tolerance and understanding of all faiths and beliefs. We feel that peace in the world can only be achieved through all peoples living in harmony. We believe our way of being in the world expresses our humanist spirituality and that this merges beautifully with our expression of humanism. We embrace living this way and sharing our way of being with others, through one to one interactions, chaplaincy, pastoral care, retreats and ceremony. By meeting with others, we share an understanding of how to build peace and love for ourselves, each other, within families and communities. “Humanism can be a way of life for everyone” as outlined in the Amsterdam declaration.
- Equality
At CELEBRATE we embrace equality and diversity and seek to celebrate everyone’s individuality. We recognise and promote messages and practices of equality. We seek to embrace a wide range of equality issues including age; disability; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion and belief; gender; sexual orientation and class. We believe in challenging inequality by offering alternative responses that celebrate individuality and difference. We believe in compassionate and accepting ways of being with all people embracing our similarities and differences.