Neville Funerals may have been serving the people of Luton and Bedfordshire for over 145 years, 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 construction company. Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Mansfield Woodhouse)
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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Scotmid Funerals – Clermiston
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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Co-op Funeral Directors – a part of Chelmsford Star Co-operative
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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Margaret Rose & Bespoke Funerals (Corby)
Margaret Rose Funerals is the family run business created by the late Maggie Brinklow and her husband Tony Killen. Maggie was a trained funeral celebrant, and it was while working as a celebrant and as an arranger for another firm of funeral directors that she decided to go the whole Read more [...]
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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Director (Rainworth)
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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A J Brooke Funeral Directors – Crowthorne
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 (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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M W Carroll & Sons
Funeral Director/s: Wendy Harrington-Carroll and Mark Carroll. Many people in the area may know the couple from their previous funeral business in Edmonton, where they served the community for decades, until serious health issues with a close family member meant that they needed to focus on supporting their relative – 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 [...]
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Rowland Brothers (Croydon)
A selection of quite the nicest, most personable and knowledgeable people make up the staff of this highly respected funeral director company, and you will be looked after throughout your dealings with them by the staff at the branch you make contact with. Independently owned and run, Rowland Brothers has Read more [...]
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Tom Owen and Son Limited
Funeral Director/s Tristan Owen – great grandson of the original Tom Owen – and his wife, Kelly. There are three other members of the team, Chris Lea, who is a long-standing member of the team, Victoria Baines who joined in November 2021 and is responsible for all work within the Read more [...]
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Co-op Funeral Directors – a part of Chelmsford Star Co-operative
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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A. H. Cheater Ltd. (Romsey)
Michael Peace is at the heart of this family business, ably helped by a small and loyal team of staff. Michael’s father Simon is still involved, coming in to carry out funerals when families ask for him specifically, although increasingly Simon is enjoying retirement and caring for his animals, The Read more [...]
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Andrew Johnson Funeral Services (Charlton)
Andrew Johnson. Immensely personable, warm and likeable, Andrew has created a genuinely family run funeral business which began in 2011 when he left the Army. He had a successful military career before changing direction and becoming a funeral director – something he has never regretted at all. Andrew had felt Read more [...]
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Holmes & Family Ltd. (Fleet)
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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E C Gilbert Ltd
Just to the south of Leicester, there are three, well known funeral homes that have served their communities for decades. E. C. Gilbert Ltd. A. J. Adkinson & Son, and R.C. Weston & Son are all familiar local names, the names of practical, hard-working and compassionate men of the early 20th Read more [...]
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Barnes and Hicks Shepherds Bush
Funeral Director/s: Ray Barnes – this is his business, founded in 1999, although Ray’s family have been funeral directors in the area for the last century. Barnes and Hicks have two branches, one in Shepherds Bush and the other in Hounslow. Ray started working in the family business in 1991, Read more [...]
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Howard Goodman Funeral Home
Howard Goodman is a relatively new business – it was opened in 2014 by Tracey and Martin Challenor with Gavin Burnett and Shirley Morton. All of them are well trained and have years of experience behind them. They all worked for a big, corporate funeral director’s where they felt they Read more [...]
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Margaret Rose & Bespoke Funerals (Finedon)
Margaret Rose Funerals is the family run business created by the late Maggie Brinklow and her husband Tony Killen. Maggie was a trained funeral celebrant, and it was while working as a celebrant and as an arranger for another firm of funeral directors that she decided to go the whole Read more [...]
