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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Scotmid Funerals – Angle Park
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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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Mansfield)
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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Lilies Funeral Directors (Birmingham)
Funeral Director/s: Lee Solomon and Nathan Scully. Lifelong friends who went to the same playgroup and grew up together in the local area. Their mums were best friends, and Lee and Nathan have continued and expanded their second-generation friendship into the business partnership that led to the creation of Lilies. Read more [...]
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Higher Ground Family Funerals
Jo Vassie is the person who you will speak to, who will come and collect the person who has died and who will listen to how you want to create the funeral, but she is so much more than just a funeral director. Even though she was named Green Funeral 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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Neville Funerals Shefford
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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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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Neville Funerals Luton
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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Matthew Lucas Funeral Directors
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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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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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Hucknall)
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 Woburn Sands
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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Rosedale Funeral Home Wymondham
The Rosedale Funeral Homes – there are seven locally – are all owned by Anne Beckett-Allen and her husband Simon, making this a family business in the truest of senses. Anne and Simon are immersed in the day to day running of Rosedale and their touch is evident in every Read more [...]
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Peace Funerals
If you choose Peace Funerals to help you with a funeral, you will be in the capable hands of John Mallatratt and his close knit team of funeral directors, Stephen Parkin, Gavin Moorby, Liz Greaves, Charlie Marshall, Claire Havenhand and Luke Fair. You will also be choosing one of the Read more [...]
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Rosedale Funeral Home Beccles
The Rosedale Funeral Homes – there are seven locally – are all owned by Anne Beckett-Allen and her husband Simon, making this a family business in the truest of senses. Anne and Simon are immersed in the day to day running of Rosedale and their touch is evident in every Read more [...]
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Holmes & Family Ltd. (Sandhurst)
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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AW Lymn – the Family Funeral Service (Carlton)
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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Overmass and Chapple
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.