About Scotland’s first not-for-profit funeral service was launched in February 2018 offering an affordable direct cremation service throughout mainland Scotland. They additional support for bereaved people experiencing hardship; Not only do they accept clients who will be in receipt of Funeral Support Payment without a deposit, but they actively welcome Read more [...]
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Clarkson’s Independent Funeral Directors (Frome)
Carol Spalding owns and runs the business jointly with her daughter Sophie May, and they have attracted the very best staff to work alongside them looking after families in Bath, Frome and Saltford. When you meet them, it’s clear to see why Clarkson’s have such an excellent reputation – Carol’s Read more [...]
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Heart and Soul Funerals Totnes
Heart & Soul Funerals (formerly known as Green Fuse Funerals) was created by Jane Morrell in 1999, and she was joined by her husband Simon Smith in 2005. These days, much of the day to day business is looked after by another couple, Birte and Paul who joined Jane and Read more [...]
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Wallace Stuart Independent Lady Funeral Directors
Owner / Funeral Director Wallace Stuart is a fairly young business that was set up by two remarkable, intelligent and capable women, Sarah Moore (née Stuart) and Lesley (Lel) Wallace. Lel always wanted to be a funeral director, but her parents gently nudged her away from her childhood dream. She Read more [...]
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A. R. Adams Ltd.
A.R. Adams has been going since 1900 and now has the fifth generation of the family involved with Ethen Adams recently joining as an apprentice. It’s steeped in the history of your area. People researching their family tree pop in wanting to know where an ancestor is buried. Chances are Read more [...]
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Clarkson’s Independent Funeral Directors (Saltford)
Carol Spalding owns and runs the business jointly with her daughter Sophie May, and they have attracted the very best staff to work alongside them looking after families in Bath, Frome and Saltford. When you meet them, it’s clear to see why Clarkson’s have such an excellent reputation – Carol’s Read more [...]
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Neville Funerals Luton
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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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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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Ilkeston)
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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Arthur C Towner Ltd (Battle)
Funeral Director(s) Oliver Towner, BA(Hons). Sixth generation of the Towner family. The business was started by his great-great-great grandfather, in 1875. Masses of heritage here, but absolutely none of the nothing-to-learn attitude which besets many such family affairs. Those vocational impulses Oliver experienced when he was a teenager all guided him Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Clifton)
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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E. A. Dodd Funeral Directors (Ottery St. Mary)
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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A J Brooke Funeral Directors – North Ascot
Funeral Director/s: Gemma Pacitto. Gemma’s not just the funeral director at A J Brooke, she’s the founder and owner of the company and the person who does everything, from meeting families and helping them make arrangements for the funeral, washing and dressing the people in her care (every single one Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Littleover)
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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P. G. Oxley Walton-on-the-Naze
The Hunnaball Family Funeral Group About: Well known, and highly respected across Essex and Suffolk, the Hunnaball Family Funeral Group came from humble beginnings, when, in 1957, a 15-year-old boy left school and started work in a local undertakers. It was the only thing that the young Trevor Hunnaball had Read more [...]
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Leverton & Sons Ltd (Hampstead)
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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AJB Funerals (Chippenham)
Previously known as Bewley and Merrett, the company changed names in 2018 to reflect the people who actually own and run the company, and in 2020 rebranded to become AJB Funerals. Aaron Bewley is the third generation funeral director who runs this company, having worked alongside his late father Jonathon Read more [...]
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Family Tree Funeral Company
Jane Diamond (on right in photo) Quite possibly, Jane will find the prominence of her name in this review uncomfortable. She has an instinctive preference to be in the background rather than the foreground, seeing her role as supportive and professional rather than the centre of attention. But it’s Jane Read more [...]
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Southall Funeral Service
Funeral Director Michael Tiney. Well known and popular in the area, Michael is a second-generation funeral director, having joined his parents in the family business in 1996, fourteen years after John and Jennifer opened the doors of the premises in Western Road, in a part of London they knew well. Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Stapleford)
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 [...]