Pricing

Standard Price List from April 2024

All funeral directors are legally required to publish this price list for a standardised set of products and services, to help you think through your options and make choices, and to let you compare prices between different funerals directors (because prices may vary).

ATTENDED FUNERAL (funeral’s charge only)

  • This is a funeral where family and friends have a ceremony, event, or service for the deceased person at the same time as their burial or cremation – £2,551.00
  • Taking care of all necessary legal and administrative arrangements – £870.00
  • Collecting and transporting the deceased person from the place of death (normally within 15 miles of our premises) into our care – £225.00
  • Care of the deceased person before the funeral in appropriate facilities. The deceased person will rest at our branch premises – £365.00
  • Viewing of the deceased person for the family and friends, by appointment with us the funeral director. – £1.00
  • Providing a suitable coffin for burial or cremation – the bridge coffin is a standard oak veneered coffin, fully lined and with electro brass or wooden handles £400.00
  • At a date and time, you agree with us, we will take the deceased person direct to your choice of cemetery or crematorium (which can be up to 20 miles from our premises) in a hearse with the necessary staff to facilitate the funeral – £690.00

UNATTENDED FUNERAL

This is a funeral where family and friends choose to have a ceremony, event, or service for the deceased person at a later date and not at the same time as their burial or cremation. No family or friends can attend this funeral and no service will take place.

  • Burial (funeral directors charges only) – £1050.00
  • Cremation (funeral directors charges plus cremation fee) – £1560.00

FEES YOU MUST PAY – £1560.00

Prices dependant on chosen cemetery
Prices available upon request
Please discuss any specific religious belief-based and/ or cultural requirements that you have with the funeral director.

ADDITIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

This funeral director can supply a range of optional products and services, or we can arrange, on your behalf, for a third-party to supply them. Examples include:

  • Embalming (Hygienic treatment to delay the natural effects of death) – £80.00
  • Additional mileage (per mile) – £2.00
  • Additional transfers of the deceased person’s body (e.g. to their home, to a place of worship etc) (per transfer) Collection and delivery of ashes – £285.00
  • Funeral Officiant (e.g. celebrant, minister of religion etc) from – £230.00
  • Services supplied outside normal hours P.O.A

The funeral director can give you a full list of what they can supply. They are likely to charge for these additional products and services, so you may choose to take care of some arrangements without their involvement, or you could use a different supplier.

 

Bamboo Latice Traditional
Bamboo Latice Round
Banana Leaf
Pandanus Traditional
Pandanus Round
Swaledale
Swaledale
Cardboard
Cardboard
Willow Eco
Willow Traditional
Willow Rounded
Mayfair
Cheltenham
Bridge
Bridge Woodland
Wharfedale
York

Coffins

  • Bridge coffin – £400.00
  • York coffin / Wharfedale coffin – £600.00
  • Mayfair coffin – £735.00
  • Willow coffin (or similar) – £955.00
  • Swaledale wool coffin – £1030.00
  • Cardboard coffins from – £465.00
  • Cheltenham coffin – £520.00
  • Solid Pine coffin – £760.00

DISBURSEMENTS

  • Doctors’ fees for cremation certificates – £82.00
  • Organist at the crematorium from – £80.00
  • Ministers’ fees at the crematorium – £240.00
  • Press notices (Craven Herald) – £180.00 (EST)
  • For church services, fees vary.

Costs for burial vary depending on where this is to take place.

  • Grave digging fees (churchyards / Tarn Moor) from – £600.00
  • Gravedigging fees (Waltonwrays cemetery) from – £950.00
  • Bio Cremation Casket – £4.00
  • Polytainer – £5.00

DIRECT CREMATION (FIXED PRICE)
The perfect funeral service where no funeral service is required or requested.
A Direct Cremation is a NO SERVICE, NO ATTENDANCE funeral service and includes the following:

  • Provision of professional services, completion of all necessary documentation and liaison with third parties.
  • Bringing the deceased into our care during normal offices hours, within a 10-mile radius of our premises and the use of our private Chapel of Rest (out of hours transfers may be subject to a supplementary charge).
  • Provision of a simple coffin.
  • The cremation fee – the cremation will take place at a time, date and location of our choice.
  • Provision of a suitable vehicle to transfer the deceased to the crematorium.
  • If you chose this option:
    • Clients must attend our office to sign the necessary cremation paperwork.
    • Visiting the deceased is not included in this package.
    • Cremated remains must be collected from our offices.
    • An additional £82.00 will be required to pay if doctors are involved.

Pre-Paid Funeral Plans

You may wish to consider taking out a Pre-Paid Funeral Plan. We offer the Golden Charter Independent Way Funeral Plan which lets you fix the cost of the funeral director’s services included in the plan at today’s prices. Should you require any information please contact us at any time.