Funeral Map: Online help for organising a Funeral

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The recently launched, www.funeralmap.co.uk aims to help grieving families organise funerals for loved ones by providing independent information and advice.

The website has access to more than 7,000 different funeral resources – including over 4,500 funeral directors, 800 register offices and 300 woodland burial sites, as well as crematoria and cemeteries – together with links to churches, charities and other helpful organisations.

A detailed question and answer section suggests the questions you should ask when organising a funeral, and then provides useful advice and guidance. Undertakers, celebrants and other funeral services can then be searched for on the website by town or postcode. A map then shows the location of the service providers.
 
Website founder Anne Barber, who has more than a decade’s experience in the arranging of funerals and introduced the concept of civil funerals to the UK, says families today want access to greater choice and flexibility.
 
“People want to understand more about the different options available when organising a funeral and until now, that hasn’t been available in one central place,” she said. “funeralmap enables families to go online at a time to suit them, look at the information they need, share it with friends and family, and make an informed decision about what suits them best.”
 
For example, she says, families may prefer to choose a different day of the week for the service – perhaps even a weekend instead of a working day to enable family and friends to travel from further afield – a longer or shorter service, or even chose a woodland burial site instead of a more traditional cemetery or churchyard.
 
By checking information and contact details online on funeralmap, they can then make the necessary arrangements directly with the funeral professionals to ensure the day meets their wishes.
 
For more information please visit www.funeralmap.co.uk.