Co-op Funeral Directors is owned by your local co-operative society, Chelmsford Star, which was founded in in 1867. They’ve been doing funerals since 1936. Chelmsford Star Co-op is affiliated to the wider co-operative movement but remains proudly independent and self-governing. It is not a part of The Co-operative Group nor Read more [...]
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Southgate & Roberts Independent Funeral Directors
Funeral Directors Liam Roberts (Dip FD, Dip CFSMA & MBIFD) and Matthew Southgate, both hugely experienced and thoroughly nice people, pooled all the knowledge they had acquired over decades learning their trade, opening the high-quality Southgate & Roberts premises in central Ipswich in February 2015. Liam came into funerals in 1985 and immediately Read more [...]
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A G Down
This funeral company has been recommended by the GFG for a number of years now – we are updating the review and it will appear here soon.
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Holmes & Family Ltd. (Aldershot)
Who\’s who Oliver Holmes Dip F A.A., Dip F.D. One of the sons of David Holmes (who founded the company and who attends 99% of funerals as a driver / bearer), Ollie is a former professional rugby player who has settled into the role of being in charge of the Read more [...]
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Exit Here (Chelsea)
Funeral Director(s) Oliver Peyton OBE. Founder and director of Exit Here, Oliver arrived in the world of funerals with a fanfare of publicity when he opened his business in Chiswick High Road in 2019. The media swooped on the story of a well-known figure who had long been a leading Read more [...]
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A & A Doyle Ltd
Allan and Awdri Doyle, a husband and wife team. Their business opened its doors in January 2012. The couple are extremely personable: warm, friendly, approachable, passionate about their work. Allan was born and brought up in the town and it is particularly important for him to not let his birthplace Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Bingham)
A.W. Lymn is a large family firm founded in 1907. This isn’t necessarily a good thing. Family businesses can run out of steam and get very complacent. Big businesses can be faceless and impersonal. This is not what you want from a funeral director. But Lymn’s has admirably and triumphantly Read more [...]
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Leverton & Sons Ltd (Kentish Town)
The Leverton family has been arranging funerals for people in this part of London since 1789. Yes, they’re now into their eighth generation; they’re steeped in heritage, drenched in history. This makes them an attractive-seeming proposition. After all, a good old family business is exactly what most of us hope Read more [...]
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Gallagher Family Funeral Directors
Funeral Director/s: This is a lovely, modern, family funeral business, created by David Gallagher and his wife Adele when they were both just 24 years old, in 1993. Today, three decades on, they have been joined in the business by one of their sons, Sam, and alongside the three family Read more [...]
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Leverton & Sons Ltd (Camden Town)
The Leverton family has been arranging funerals for people in this part of London since 1789. Yes, they’re now into their eighth generation; they’re steeped in heritage, drenched in history. This makes them an attractive-seeming proposition. After all, a good old family business is exactly what most of us hope Read more [...]
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Poppy’s
Poppy Mardall is the founder of this modern funeral company which has grown from humble beginnings to become a smart, contemporary business with a team of dedicated and passionate staff. We first met Poppy when she was researching the funeral world back in 2011 and it has been fascinating to Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Long Eaton)
A.W. Lymn is a large family firm founded in 1907. This isn’t necessarily a good thing. Family businesses can run out of steam and get very complacent. Big businesses can be faceless and impersonal. This is not what you want from a funeral director. But Lymn’s has admirably and triumphantly Read more [...]
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Neville Funerals Ampthill
Neville Funerals may have been serving the people of Luton and Bedfordshire for 150 years this year (2025), but they are not standing still, nor taking anything for granted. Still family run, Neville Trust, led by the fifth generation, has overall control of the both the funeral business and their Read more [...]
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David Button Independent Funeral Directors
Funeral Director(s) David Button is the owner of this small family business and he leads the team who are based here. Joanna West is the funeral home manager and works closely with David and the team of pallbearers. When he first opened the company, David managed on his own with Read more [...]
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J Brown Funeral Services (Amersham)
Winners of the 2021 Buckinghamshire Business Awards for Excellence in Customer Service, J Brown Funeral services is owned and run by Jason Brown – the man himself, together with his wife Ana. This is a true family owned and run business, created in 2017, some 25 years after Jason first Read more [...]
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Scotmid Funerals – Portobello
The Scotmid website proudly states ‘We are a co-operative so we focus on the needs of the people we serve, not the demands of shareholders. We are proud to be at the heart of the communities we serve and are committed to being open, honest, ethical and professional at all Read more [...]
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Dandelion Farewells
Funeral Director Judith Dandy Dip FS, LMBIFD. Winner of the Most Promising New Funeral Director category in the 2016 Good Funeral Awards. In the decade since then, Judith has become one of the most highly respected of the new breed of artisan funeral professionals. Dandelion Farewells is the realisation of the Read more [...]
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Barringtons Independent Funeral Services (Waterloo)
David Barrington. David’s story is best told in his own words: “I was brought up around the funeral business, our family home was where the cars were parked so when growing up I spent most of my time playing in limousines and hearses and for a young boy these cars Read more [...]
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Natural Endings Funeral Services
Rosie Grant. Rosie first became involved in funerals when her dying Mum told Rosie “she wanted and didn’t want certain things. We arranged a fantastic funeral for her. I laid her out, a friend made a coffin, we had her ceremony in a thatched barn followed by a woodland burial. Read more [...]
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Divine Ceremony
Who’s who? Dee Ryding is the founder and owner of Divine Ceremony. Inspiring, intelligent and immensely likeable, Dee has been working in and around funerals in Bristol for more than fifteen years, and has been named a Bristol Changemaker for her work in this sector. Like so many progressive funeral Read more [...]