On March 11, 2021, Dignity plc announced that it has received a requisition notice from Phoenix Asset Management Partners requiring that the board convenes a general meeting of shareholders for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, approving resolutions to remove the existing executive chairman, Clive Whiley as a director and appoint Gary Channon as an executive director. Further, the Company stated that Phoenix Asset Management seeking irrevocable commitments to support the resolutions proposed in the requisition notice not to give any such commitments until the board has shared its views on these proposals with shareholders.