Standardised Price List
All funeral directors are legally required to publish this Price List for a standardised set of products and services.
This is to help you think through your options and make choices, and to let you compare prices between different funeral directors (because prices can vary).
ATTENDED FUNERAL (funeral director’s charges only)
This is a funeral where family and friends have a ceremony, event or service for the deceased person at the same time as they attend their burial or cremation.
£3,100
Taking care of all necessary legal and administrative arrangements.
£1,250
Collecting and transporting the deceased person from the place of death (normally within 15 miles of the funeral director’s premises) into the funeral director’s care
£300
Care of the deceased person before the funeral in appropriate facilities. The deceased person will be kept at the funeral director’s premises.
£250
Providing a suitable coffin – this will be made from a high quality wood
£550
Viewing of the deceased person for family and friends, by appointment with the funeral director.
£100
At a date and time you agree with the funeral director, taking the deceased person direct to the agreed cemetery or crematorium (normally within 20 miles of the funeral director’s premises) in a hearse or other appropriate vehicle
£650
UNATTENDED FUNERAL
This is a funeral where family and friends may choose to have a ceremony, event or service for the deceased person, but they do not attend the burial or cremation itself.
Burial (funeral director’s charges only)
£1,750
Cremation (funeral director’s charges plus the cremation fee) ²
£1,850
FEES YOU MUST PAY
For an Attended or Unattended burial funeral, the burial fee.¹
In this local area, the typical cost of the burial fee for local residents is:
For a new grave, you will also need to pay for the plot; for an existing grave with a memorial in place, you may need to pay a removal/replacement fee. In addition, the cemetery may charge a number of other fees.
From £3,433
For an Attended cremation funeral, the cremation fee.²
In this local area, the typical cost of a cremation for local residents is:
£595-£1,125
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 may be able to supply a range of optional, additional products and services, or to arrange (on your behalf) for a third party to supply them. Examples include:
Additional mileage (price per mile)
Additional transfers of the deceased person’s body (e.g. to their home, to a place of worship etc.) (price per transfer
Collection and delivery of ashes
£2
From £100
From £100
Embalming (from)
£250
Funeral officiant (e.g. celebrant, minister of religion etc.)
Services supplied outside of normal office hours
From £200
From £550
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 can use a different supplier.
¹ This fee (which is sometimes called the interment fee) is the charge made for digging and closing a new grave, or for reopening and closing an existing grave.
² In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, you will usually need to pay doctors’ fees as well. This is the charge for two doctors to sign the Medical Certificates for Cremation.
Our Local Crematorium Pricing
The City of London Crematorium
Aldersbrook Road
Wanstead
E125DQ
Direct Cremation unattended £495
08.30-10.00 attended £582
10.15-18.00 attended £1,082
Manor Park Crematorium
Sebert Road
Manor Park
E7 0NP
Direct cremation unattended £310
08.00-10.00 attended £655
10.30-16.00 attended £990
Forest Park Crematorium
Forest Road
Hainault
IG6 3HP
Direct Cremation unattended £545
09.00-09.30 attended £815
10.10-18.00 attended £1,170
East London Crematorium
Grange Road
Plaistow
E13 0HB
Direct Cremation unattended £550
09.30 attended £472
10.10-18.00 attended £1,070
Terms & Conditions
1. Estimates and Expenses
The email estimate sets out the services we agree to supply. This estimate is an indication of the charges likely to be incurred on the basis of the information and details we know at the date of the estimate. While we make every effort to ensure the accuracy of the estimate, the changes are liable to alteration particularly where a third party changes their rates or charges.
2. Payment Arrangements
Full funeral payments are payable to Compassionate Funerals within a minimum of five working days before the funeral. Under special circumstances, Third Party costs and 30% of Professional Fees will be accepted and the remainder to be paid within an agreed time.
The 30% paid of the Professional fees are non-fundable. We accept the following methods of payment; BACS, cash & cheque to;
NatWest
The Compassionate Funeral Co Ltd
Sort Code 60-22-30
Account No. 70124299
DWP PAYMENTS FOR FUNERAL EXPENSE: Please inform us if you intend to claim for support with funeral expenses from DWP. Payment will only cover partial costs and there will be a balance that will have to be paid. The rules for eligibility are complex and we suggest that you speak or call your local DWP office for advice.
If you fail to pay us in full on the due date we may charge you interest at a rate of 4% calculated (on a daily basis) from the date of our account until payment compounded on the first day of each month; and before and after any judgment (unless a Court orders otherwise). We may recover (under Clause 3) the cost of taking legal action to make you pay.
3. Indemnity
You are to indemnify us in full and hold us harmless from all costs expenses and liabilities we may incur (directly or indirectly including legal costs on a full indemnity basis) following any breach by you or any of your obligations under these Terms. This means that you are liable to us for losses we incur because you do not comply with these Terms. For example, we will charge you an administration fee when we receive a cheque from you which, is subsequently not honoured or if we write to advise you that an account is overdue. If we instruct debt collection agents we may also recover from you the fees we incur. Further details regarding these fees are available on request. We may claim those losses from you at any time and, if we have to take legal action, we will ask the Court to make you pay our legal costs.
4. Data Protection
Words shown in italics are defined in the Data Protection Act 1998 (‘the Act”). We respect the confidential nature of the information given to us and, where you provide us with personal data (“data”), we will ensure you that the data will be held securely, in confidence and processed for the purpose of carrying out our service. In order to provide our services we may need to pass such data to third parties and those third parties, who are performing some of the services for you, may contact you directly. Under the Act you have the right to know what data we hold on you and you can, by applying to us in writing and paying a fee, receive copies of that data.
5. Cooling-Off Period
The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 may give you the right to terminate this agreement in the cooling-off period of fourteen days. In the event that you exercise the right to cancel this contract during the cooling-off period, you will be required to pay a reasonable amount for goods and services already supplied.
6. Termination
This agreement may also be terminated (1) by us: if you fail to honour your obligations under these Terms and (2) by you at any time before services are delivered by communicating to us in writing, terminating your instructions.
Please write to Compassionate Funerals, 89a Aldersbrook Road, London E12 5DG.
If we or you terminate your instructions you may, depending upon the reason for termination, be asked to pay a reasonable amount based upon the work carried out up to the time your notice of termination is received.
7. Agreement
By signing this contract, you have expressly requested that we should immediately commence providing the services and any right you may have to cancel this contract by virtue of the Consumer Contracts (Information Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 will not apply.
Your continuing instructions will amount to your continuing acceptance of these Terms of Business. Your instruction will not create any right enforceable (by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person not identified as our client.
If any of these terms are unenforceable as drafted; it will not affect the enforceability of any other of these Terms; and if it would be enforceable if amended, it will be treated as so amended. Nothing in these Terms restricts or limits our liability for death or personal injury.
8. Company Details
The Compassionate Funeral Co Ltd trading as Compassionate Funerals.
Company No. 08213140.
Address: 3-5 Devon House, Hermon Hill, Wanstead, E11 2AW.
Telephone: 0208 989 0943 Web: wwwcompassionatefunerals.co.uk
This agreement is subject to English Law and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law and within the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts, to which the parties irrevocably submit. If you decide to commence legal action, you may do so, in any appropriate UK Court.