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Price: £3,200*

ServicePackage includes/excludes
Funeral Director's fees and services
Care of your loved one including transportation, preparation, dressing and use of the chapel of rest, by appointment only, during office hours
Hearse, four bearers and one chauffeur driven limousine from an address to a designated place of worship and/ or committal within a 25-mile radius. The limousine will return you to a local destination of your choice (additional limousines are available on request)

The Gateshead Coffin. The Gateshead is a semi-solid redwood timber coffin with a high raised lid, rich gloss finish and can be draped in a Union Jack Flag. Fully lined with gold effect furnishings and engraved nameplates

(Please note for outsized and specialist coffins a small additional fee will be applied)

An artificial floral tribute is available on request
The Gateshead - The Cragside ashes casket with engraved nameplate
Standard Bearer (if available)
Funeral Director on the day to conduct the funeral
Cremation fee (based on cremation in Gateshead, additional costs maybe incurred if cremation takes place at a different crematorium or if a burial is required)
A social media notice
Minister or Officiant fees (up to £230 anything above this will be chargeable)
Bugler to play the last post

If a bugler is not available a recorded version of the last post will be played
Grave purchase fees and any memorial fees (where applicable and at extra cost)
Embalming (where applicable and at an extra cost)

This is an attended service and additional items can be applied such as limousines, death notice in a newspaper, additional flowers, order or service and coffin suites.

All third-party costs such as crematorium, ministers or officiant fees must be paid for before the funeral service. A discount of 2.5% will be applied to our charges if paid in full before the funeral.

*Charges subject to inflation

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