Personal choice (individual options)
Giving you the flexibility to make your own bespoke funeral package up from the following.
| Funeral director fees and services | Costs |
|---|
- Full advice and information regarding death registration
- Arranging a date and time for the funeral, according to your instructions
- Liaising with hospitals, doctors, coroner, clergy and other third parties
- Dealing with the necessary paperwork to enable cremation or burial to take place
- Placing death notice in newspaper if required (cost will be shown as an additional third party cost)
- Arranging music requests according to your instructions
- Ordering floral tributes on your behalf (the costs will be shown as an additional third party cost)
- Arranging order of service in accordance with the minister or officiant (the costs will be shown as an additional third party cost)
- Funeral Director on the day to conduct the funeral
| £1,100 |
| Care and preparation of the deceased | Costs |
|---|
- 24 hour transfer of the deceased to our premises within a 25 mile radius. Providing personal care and preparation of the deceased until the day of the funeral, or up to a maximum of 15 days
- Preparation of the deceased including washing, following instructions regarding make-up, hair care and dressing of the deceased in their own clothes or simple shroud (embalming is not included)
- Use of the chapel of rest and chapel visits, by appointment only, during office hours
| £300 |
| Embalming of the deceased | £180 |
| Additional care of the deceased following the 15 day period | £50 per day |
| Transport | Costs |
|---|
| Chauffeur driven, seven-seater, limousine from address to a designated place of worship and/or committal within a 25 mile radius during office hours. The limousine will return you to a local destination of your choice. | £150 |
| Reception of the deceased into home or church prior to the funeral, within a 25 mile radius, during office hours | £200 |
| Reception of the deceased into home or church prior to the funeral, within a 25 mile radius, outside normal working hours | £300 |
| 24 hour transfer of the deceased to a temporary resting place on behalf of a third party, within a 25 mile radius | £150 |
| Hearse with driver and bearers from address to designated place of worship and/or committal within a 25 mile radius, during office hours | £400 |
| Horse drawn hearse | £950 |
| Disabled access vehicle to follow cortege | £75 |
| Eight-seater minibus to follow cortege | £75 |
| Seventeen-seater minibus and driver | £80+£15 per hour for driver |
| Specialist funeral vehicles available on request | £poa |
| Additional mileage over 25 miles | £2 per mile |
| General | Costs |
|---|
| Visit to the chapel of rest outside normal working hours subject to pre-arranged appointment with Funeral Director (up to one hour) | £100 |
| Additional pallbearers | £40 each |
| Weekend funeral surcharge | £500 |
| Order of service x 50 (4 pages) | £60 |
| Memory book (first copy free) | £30 |
| Coffins | Costs |
|---|
| Derwent, light oak effect with matching moulds | £200 |
| Saltwell, oak veneer style with matching moulds | £300 |
| Regent, oak veneer style fitted with raised lid | £500 |
| Gibside, traditionally crafted solid oak with side panels and raised lid | £900 |
| Bamburgh, solid redwood timber with side panels and raised lid | £900 |
| Lindisfarne, solid oak veneer with 'Last Supper' feature panel | £750 |
| Reflections, personalised pictures | From £500 |
| Cardboard, high-quality cardboard | £300 |
| Pathway, natural wood personalised | £poa |
| Traditional Chestnut Willow, hand woven, natural willow (wicker) | £750 |
| Water Hyacinth, inner wooden frame with hand woven hyacinth outer shell | £850 |
| Banana Leaf, inner wooden frame with hand woven banana leaf outer shell | £850 |
| Caskets | Costs |
|---|
| Beamish, solid mahogany polished to a high gloss finish | £1,850 |
| Embleton, solid oak with raised lid and decorative panels | £1,350 |
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All third-party costs such as crematorium, doctors and ministers or officiant fees must be paid for before the funeral is arranged. A discount of 2.5% will be applied to our charges if paid in full before the funeral.
A small additional fee will be applied for outsized, specialist coffins.
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We're always happy to offer advice and answer any questions you may have. You can call us at any time on 0191 433 4499.
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