How Much Does a Funeral Cost?
The overall cost of a funeral is comprised by two separate figures. There are our costs (as your funeral director) and there are various third party fees that will need to be paid. Understanding which fees need to be paid in different circumstances can be a little tricky so we have detailed below a helpful guide which includes all of our current prices and information about the various third party fees that potentially need to be paid.
We are only a phone call away should you have any questions or you would rather just talk to a real person about your requirements.
Our Fees as Your Funeral Director
Our Complete Service
What this includes:
- We are available at any time day or night to bring the deceased into our care.
- We will prepare and take care of the deceased until the day of the funeral.
- Where possible, family and friends will be offered the opportunity to spend time with the deceased in our Chapel of Rest.
- We will make all of the arrangements for the funeral, liaise with local clergy, celebrants, cemeteries, crematoria, caterers and florists and also provide the funeral director, chauffeurs and bearers for the funeral service.
- We will give guidance to relatives or executors on the registration of the death and other matters relevant to the funeral.
- We will provide our Jaguar Hearse that can leave from a local address before proceeding to a local place of worship (if required) and onwards to the local crematorium or place of burial.
- We will receive flowers for the funeral and also process and acknowledge charitable donations in memory of the deceased, both via our website and more traditional methods.
- Home visits are available if required.
- A Balmoral or Sandringham Coffin.
£2295 + Additional Services and Third Party costs
Choosing a Coffin
Included in the cost of ‘Our Complete Service’, you can choose either the Balmoral or the Sandringham coffin, as displayed in the gallery below. There is an additional cost for the other coffins displayed.
These are just a selection of our most popular coffins. If you have something specific in mind, please speak to our team. We have access to a vast selection and will be happy to source something more specific to suit your requirements.
| Veneer Finish | |
|---|---|
| Balmoral | Included |
| Sandringham | Included |
| Regent | +£120 |
| Consort | +£140 |
| Tudor | +£160 |
| Solid Wood | |
|---|---|
| Royal | +£700 |
| Imperial | +£750 |
| Buckingham | +£1100 |
| Sovereign | +£1625 |
| Our Alternative Coffin Selection | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard | +£110 |
| Bamboo | +£120 |
| Willow | +£340 |
| Colourful Coffins | POA |
Balmoral
Sandringham
Regent
Consort
Tudor
Royal
Imperial
Buckingham
Sovereign
Cardboard
Bamboo
Willow
Additional Services
| One Limousine (for the carriage of up to seven mourners) | £195 |
| Two Limousines (for the carriage of up to 14 mourners) | £295 |
| Printed Service Sheets | From £25 |
| Listing of Mourners | £25 |
| P. A System hire and the provision of music (with appropriate copyright licenses) for a service | £60 |
| Coffin into House or Church Overnight | From £150 |
| Saturday Funeral Surcharge | £500 |
| Additional Hearse and Staff Costs (for when a service concludes with either a burial or cremation on a separate date to the preliminary service) | £500 |
| Arrangement and Attendance at Interment of Ashes | From £85 |
| Our attendance at a Memorial or Thanksgiving service | £95 |
| Our Preparation of the Grave | £445 |
| Mileage costs for a long distance funeral or the collection of the deceased (per mile) | £1.50 |
| Horse Drawn Hearse | From £950 |
| Oak Marker Cross with Nameplate | £65 |
| Our Ashes Casket Selection | |
|---|---|
| Kensington - Solid Oak or Mahogany Ashes Casket (Single/Double) | £95/£165 |
| Highgrove - Oak or Mahogany Veneer Ashes Casket (Single/Double) | £75/£125 |
| Willow Ashes Casket | £60 |
| Willow & Seagrass Ashes Casket | £55 |
| Ashes Scatter Tubes (Various Designs) | £25 |
Kensington
Wilow
Highgrove
Willow & Seagrass
Third Party Costs
There are third party costs associated with any funeral arrangement that are completely outside of our control. These costs must be taken into consideration when considering the overall cost of the funeral. The fees detailed below are for illustrative purposes only. Your funeral director will furnish you with a detailed breakdown based on your specific requirements.
- Cremation fees £675 – £1200
- Doctors’ fees for medical certificates – £82
- Officiants/Minister fees £180 – £240
- Churchyard fees £313 – £341/Cemetery Fees £500 – £2000
- Organist fee £50 – £100
- Verger fees £30 – £75
- Floral Tributes £40 upwards
- Newspaper Announcements £90 – £140
- Catering (per head) £6.50 upwards
Our Enhanced Direct Cremation Service
What this includes:
- We are available at any time day or night to bring the deceased into our care.
- We will prepare and take care of the deceased until the day of the funeral.
- Where possible, family and friends will be offered the opportunity to spend time with the deceased in our Chapel of Rest.
- We will make all of the arrangements for the funeral service to take place at either the Woodland Hall at GreenAcres, Colney, Norwich or at the Cedar Hall at the Norfolk Bluebell Wood, Hainford. The coffin will be present upon arrival at the hall and will remain in place at the end of the service. The cremation will then take place after the funeral service at a local crematorium. No one is permitted to attend the crematorium for this part of the service.
- We will give guidance to relatives or executors on the registration of the death and other matters relevant to the funeral.
- We will make all of the arrangements for the funeral, liaise with local clergy, celebrants, the relevant crematoria, caterers and florists and also provide the funeral director and required staff for the funeral service.
- We will receive flowers for the funeral and also process and acknowledge charitable donations in memory of the deceased both via our website and more traditional methods.
- A Balmoral or Sandringham Coffin.
- A minister, civil celebrant or humanist celebrant to officiate the service.
- All cremation costs, including, where necessary, doctor’s fees for cremation certificates.
Enhanced Direct Cremation fee – £2895
Our Direct Cremation Service
What this includes:
- We will make arrangements to collect the deceased and bring them into our care from within a radius of 20 miles of our office. If this is done during our normal office hours of Monday – Friday, 9am to 5pm, this is included within the Direct Cremation fee. Should we be required to attend outside of these hours, there will be an out of hours charge applied, (please see costs detailed below).
- The date of the cremation will be decided upon at our discretion at a crematorium of our choosing. On the day of the cremation, we will provide a closed vehicle and necessary staff to transport the coffin directly to the crematorium.
- At the crematorium, there will be no service held and no one is allowed into the chapel under any circumstances.
- For the cremation, we will provide our Windsor coffin (a simple, light coloured coffin) and the deceased will be wrapped in a simple, dignified shroud. Chapel visits are not permitted with this level of service.
- You will be advised of the date that the ashes will be available for you to collect from our office (unless you have requested that they are scattered within the grounds of the crematorium).
- All necessary paperwork to allow the cremation to take place (for which we will provide guidance and support with) will need to be delivered directly to our office at a date indicated to you by your funeral director.
- Payment for this service is required at the time of making the arrangements with your funeral director.
- The cremation will not take place until full payment has been made.
Direct Cremation fee – £1850
Out of Hours Surcharge – £195
Comparing Costs – The CMA Standardised Price List
In 2021, the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) ruled that all funeral directors in the UK must provide a standardised price list, both online and in branch, to allow the public, quite rightly, the opportunity to compare prices across the market.
We are legally required by the CMA to show certain information about our prices, our business terms, who owns the company and information on the fees charged by local crematoria.
The pricing format the CMA requires is different from the fully itemised way we have always shown our fees on our website and our price lists. Nevertheless, we are obliged to show them in this format and we very much agree with having a standard format to make it easier to compare different firms’ prices.
Feel free to make use of either the CMA’s Standardised Price List or the information detailed above. The figures for either format all add up to the same totals anyway but if any of this is confusing please do contact us – we are here to help.
You may notice on the CMA’s Standardised Price List that we have shown a charge of £5 for visits to the chapel of rest within office hours. It has never been our practice to charge any fee for you to visit our Chapel of Rest, in or out of office hours, but the CMA insists that a charge is shown for every item. Hence the nominal fee.
You can download a copy of The CMA Standardised Price List here.
You can download a copy of Our Terms of Business and full Disclosure of Interests here.
Cremation Fees
In our area, we regulary use 4 different crematoria. In order to compare the costs of each, you can find the price guide for each of them here:
Our Cost Guarantee
As a small, independent firm, we believe we offer the very best value for the service we provide. If however you do have a written, like for like quote from somewhere else in Norfolk, we will always endeavour to match it.
Payment Options
Accounts can be settled in person, over the telephone, by post or online using your debit or credit card, cash or cheque.
Finance
We understand that funding the cost of a funeral can be worrying for some. With this in mind, we are able to offer various finance options for those who would rather spread the cost of a funeral. We are also happy to provide assistance with regards to payments from the social fund. Speak to your funeral director for further advice.
