Ashes final resting place

When it comes to choosing the final resting place for your loved one’s ashes, there are many choices.

Before you make a decision, here are a few considerations

• There are very few “rules” about what can happen to ashes
• The ashes may be divided and distributed between locations or to different family members
• Take time to make the right decision – once ashes have been scattered there’s no going back
• You may want to mark the place with a memorial
• Ashes can be held safely by us without any cost for up to six months
• If you have an idea about what you’d like to happen to the ashes, please discuss it with us
• We are able to assist with any administration

What can I do with the ashes?

• Keep them at home, perhaps in an urn, casket or an indoor or outdoor ornament
• Have a small portion placed into an item of jewellery (or several pieces of jewellery)
• Ashes can be buried in a family grave, a new plot, a churchyard, cemetery or woodland burial ground
• Scatter them in a park, forest or woodland, on a golf course, a hillside, a riverbank or at sea
• Scatter them at a sports ground
• Placed into fireworks
• Launched into space
• Any of the above outside of the UK

Please note, it is important to remember that some sites may require permission prior to scattering. We can advise on this.