Funerals

Award-Winning Funeral Celebrants

Kate and Kate were proud winners of Celebrant of the Year at the 2019 Good Funeral Awards and Best Funeral Information Provider 2022 and 2023 for Coffin Club UK. In 2023 we also won Best Death Advocates at the Advantages of Age Awards. In 2024 we were finalists at the Good Funeral Awards for Best Funeral Support Service and also finalists at the Shine A Light Awards for The Good Grief Trust.

As Independent Celebrants, we are passionate about changing the face of funerals in the UK. There’s no right or wrong way to conduct an end-of-life celebration, it’s whatever feels right for you and whatever you feel captures and reflects the person who has died and sums up what made them them.

Your Choice

We’re all about choice. We want you to know that you can hold your final farewell in a barn, or a village hall, or even in your back garden and that, by separating the cremation or burial from the celebration of life, you completely change the atmosphere and free yourself up to provide a much more personal experience.

A crematorium or church service is absolutely right for some people and can be a really meaningful and sincere send-off and we’re very happy to facilitate a crematorium funeral if that’s what you would like. But, we also want you to know that there are other approaches available and support you in exploring those too. It really is all about empowering you to have the funeral that you want – we’re all so unique and individual in life that’s what we want to reflect after death, too.

Talk to Us

Get in touch with us and we can explain to you how a ceremony conventionally runs – that gives us a starting point – from there we aim to facilitate you in whatever you might want or need to be included in your ceremony. We can make suggestions and guide you through the process from start to finish. We will then write a ceremony script, which you will have approval of… so, if there’s anything you want adding, taking out or amending, we’ll keep tweaking until it’s exactly how you’d like it to be.

Funeral Directors

We can recommend Funeral Directors to you, or other organisations, such as end-of-life Doulas, who can support you in your end-of-life and after-death care. You don’t even have to be dead to get in touch! We can work with families after someone has died but, what is also becoming more common, is to work with someone who is still alive – planning your own funeral can actually be a really meaningful thing to do.

You can book us directly or via a Funeral Director.

Fees

Location	Fee
A single-slot crematorium funeral in Hastings or Eastbourne A double-slot crematorium funeral in Hastings or Eastbourne	£350 £450
A single-slot crematorium funeral in Charing, Kent and East Sussex, Wealden A double-slot crematorium funeral in Charing, Kent and East Sussex, Wealden	£400 £450
Alternative venue celebration-of-life	from £500 (excluding travel)

Location

Fee

A single-slot crematorium funeral in Hastings or Eastbourne

A double-slot crematorium funeral in Hastings or Eastbourne

£350

£450

A single-slot crematorium funeral in Charing, Kent and East Sussex, Wealden

A double-slot crematorium funeral in Charing, Kent and East Sussex, Wealden

£400

£450

Alternative venue celebration-of-life

from £500 (excluding travel)

Note: There is an additional charge of £50 for a burial taking place in addition to a chapel service.

A Message from Kate & Kate

Inspiration

Whilst some families have been kind enough to allow us to use photos from their celebration of life, we prefer not to do so. Therefore, most of the photos below are from styled shoots we have organised. We really want to show people what a funeral in a different setting might look like, without impacting on those we support. Thanks to photographers – David Thomas, Paul Weller and Georgina Piper. Venues – Powdermills Hotel, Battle, Swallows Oast, Ticehurst, Bannatynes Hotel, St Leonards.

A very big thank you to Jo Hibbert and Liz de Havilland for use of their personal funeral photos.

Don't take our word for it. Take theirs

Hi Kate, Your input was nothing short of exemplary! So many people said how professional, thoughtful and meaningful your well chosen words were. The immediate family are so grateful that you were chosen for this celebration of our Dads life. You touched our hearts and delivered his history so well. Lots of love,

Good afternoon Kate. Thank you SO much for creating such a moving, reflective memorial for our dear M. Those who knew him well affirmed it reflected the man we knew. Those who knew him less well told us that they wished they’d known him better. The reception went well thank you and our guests enjoyed the sunshine.

Dear Kate. What can I say but thank you. You were magnificent! I have had so many compliments about the way you 'took' the service. The little extras made it as perfect as I think it could be.

People are still telling me that they 'enjoyed' the service. I remember the faces of people when they come outside after. A lot of smiles. Which in my mind was better than a lot of sad faces. Thanks again
"Live long and prosper."

Thank you so much for your kind words. We were so happy with how it all came together, it was perfect for S. It was a hugely emotional day, full of love, tears and also laughter. So many people complimented us on the celebration and I really think it has made people think about what they would like. The tributes were incredible and T was so brave, S would have been very proud of her.

Just wanted to say, that was brilliant today, thank you. I didn’t stay for long afterwards but everyone was delighted by the service. You captured B perfectly. Thanks again

I’m still in awe of the wonderful, calm, unrushed service you delivered. It was magical and the most fitting way to have celebrated Mum’s life. You were simply amazing.

Almost a week on from Dad’s funeral and everyone is still talking about the wonderful service and the day you orchestrated for Dad and people are saying that "it was the best service they have ever been to". From the moment that we all met, you were uplifting and sensitive to the type of service Mum wanted for Dad and delivered it in just the right way. The attention to detail that you wrote into the eulogy and the fun style of the delivery kept everyone upbeat. The whole service was a wonderful celebration and we couldn’t have wished for anything else, nor could we have wished for a better celebrant than you. We would not hesitate to recommend your services to everyone wishing to have a celebration of someone’s life at a very sad time.

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