We pride ourselves on caring for you and your family as if you were our own family. We see it as a privilege to take care of you.
We will never be cheapest, but we do offer excellent value for money. Everyone that we care for is conveyed into our care individually. Our premises is designed to uphold complete privacy & respect at all times and you can be rest assured that you’ll have the continuity of care of having a personal point of contact.
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Third party costs are up to date as of January 2024, these prices are outside of our control and are subject to change without prior notification.
There are lots of ways to personalise your funeral plan, such as:
The funeral can take place at a wide range of venues. This could include a race track for someone who was a motorsport enthusiast.
The funeral can take place completely at the crematorium of your choice.
The funeral can take place at a Church of your choice.
We can arrange for a Land Rover hearse to be your choice of transport.
A choice of the beautiful black or white horses, with the option of matching outrider.
There are options of having a white, silver or black hearse to accompany them.
We can provide catering and catering attendants to look after everything. This can take place at the onsite Barsby Catering Suite, at other venues of your choice or in your own home.
Carrying a loved one's coffin can be a really powerful and personal way to convey them on their last journey. We strongly recommend to do a practice with us before the day of the funeral.
We can provide a wide range of floral tributes. We have a comprehensive brochure that your funeral director can go through with you to select what tribute you'd like.
We have a freestanding television that can be hired for the funeral and/or the reception to incorporate a slideshow of photos.
We can provide a wide range of bespoke and personal funeral stationery. These include orders of service, attendance cards, memorial portrait photos, memory boards, bookmarks and memorial cards.
Live music makes a real difference to the funeral. There is a wide variety of options for live music. These could include a singer, a choir, a harpist or a brass band to name just a few.
Dove releases can be arranged for the funeral. This can range from a single dove to 20. You have the choice of whether you'd like to personally release them or whether they are all released independently.
We can arrange for a bagpiper to play at the funeral.
We can arrange for a bugler to be present at the funeral.
Personalise your venue decor to make it a truly memorable funeral reception.
Make your day special by including a balloon release to remember your loved one.
These beautifully created handmade keepsakes are designed using your loved one's own clothes. The teddy bears can incorporate additional hidden keepsakes such as locks of hair or cremated remains. A truly treasured way of keeping your loved one's memory alive and close by.
We believe that your bespoke remembrance jewellery should be unique to you, hold the sentiment and representation of your loved one and provide a tangible way to keep your loved one close to you always.
When a loved one passes away, the last thing you want to worry about is the logistics of their funeral. Many people believe that they have to wait three weeks before the funeral can take place, but this is not necessarily the case.
Before the funeral date can be confirmed, the required paperwork needs to be in place. There is different paperwork depending on whether the service of committal is a burial or cremation.
Planning the funeral:
Your funeral director will ask you when you’d like the service to take place, it shouldn’t be a case of you being told when it is taking place.
To book the funeral service, you will need the paperwork as explained above in place and to have considered the below:
This is not an exhaustive list but gives you an idea of considerations and factors that would affect when the funeral can take place.
If no one else wants to make the funeral arrangements, there is usually no need to consider the information set out below. However, if there is a chance that someone might object to you arranging the funeral, you should consider the following questions to satisfy yourself that you are entitled to do so, before proceeding to make the arrangement. If you are in doubt that you are the right person to make the funeral arrangements and are unable to reach agreement, you may wish to take independent legal advice before proceeding.
If the person who has died is an adult (aged 16 or over):
Did the person who has died make an Arrangements on Death Declaration?
If it can be demonstrated that the person who has died expressed a wish that a particular person should be responsible for arranging their funeral, this person is entitled to make the arrangements. The most common place to find such an expression is as part of the person’s Will. If someone other than you was named by the person who has died, you should only arrange the funeral with this person’s agreement.
The person who has died did not make an Arrangements on Death Declaration
In these circumstances, we can offer the following advice, depending on your relationship to the person who has died:
If you are the husband, wife or civil partner of the person who has died, you are most likely the right person to make the funeral arrangements.
If the person who has died was not married but you lived together in the same way as a married couple when they died, you are most likely the right person to make the funeral arrangements (if you lived together for at least 6 months before the date of death).
If you are the child of the person who has died and the person who has died was married, in a civil partnership or living with a long-term partner when they died, this person is likely to have priority over you. We advise that you check with them before arranging the funeral. If you have any brothers or sisters it is advisable to get agreement from them before making the funeral arrangements. If you can’t agree on the arrangements, you can still arrange the funeral but there is a chance that one of them could ask the court to allow them to make the arrangements instead.
If you are the parent of the person who has died, you should check with any spouse/civil partner, long term partner and children of the person who has died before making the funeral arrangements. If the other parent of the person who has died is contactable, it is advisable to get agreement from them before making the funeral arrangements. If you can’t agree on the arrangements, you can still arrange the funeral but there is a chance that they could apply to the court to allow them to make the arrangements instead.
If you are the brother or sister of the person who has died, you should check with any spouse/civil partner, long term partner, children and parents of the person who has dies before making the funeral arrangements. If you have any other brothers or sisters it is advisable to get agreement from them before making the funeral arrangements. If you can’t agree on the arrangements, you can still arrange the funeral but there is a chance that one of them could apply to the court to allow them to make the arrangements instead.
The legal hierarchy of who should arrange a funeral is:
We are more than happy to be lead by you. Some people prefer to concentrate on registering their loved one's death before meeting with one of the funeral directing team. Whereas other families want to see us very quickly.
The arrangements and options will be put together at your pace. If you need multiple meetings to get the structure of the funeral put together, then that is fine. Your personally appointed funeral director is there help and guide you every step of the way.
If registration hasn't taken place, we won't be able to put a time and date in place, but we can still put all the preparation in place for when the paperwork is sorted.
We will bring your loved one's cremated remains into our care the next working day after the funeral. We look after your loved one's cremated remains with respect in our columbarium until you decide on how you'd like to lay your loved one to rest. There is a lot of cremated remains options, please click on this link.
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The Barsby Service Chapel allows you to have complete flexibility to have the funeral service you want with no time restrictions, and no uncomfortable situation where another funeral cortege is arriving as you are leaving.
The elegant and calm atmosphere of the Chapel can seat 55 people in total comfort.
Located in Hinckley’s Historic Druid Quarter, the elegant Barsby Suite provides a tranquil place for family and friends to come together.
We can accommodate up to 55 guests, with further seating in the adjoining Service Chapel.
