Bespoke Price List from April 2026
All funeral directors are legally required to publish this price list for a standardised set of products and service, to help you think through your options and make choices, and to let you compare prices between different funeral directors (because prices may vary).
Attended Funeral (funeral director’s charges only)
Unattended Funeral
This is a funeral where family and friends choose to have a ceremony, event or service for the deceased person at a later date and not at the same time as their burial or cremation.
No family or friends can attend this funeral and no service will take place.
Fees you must pay – £985-£2,500
Prices dependant on chosen cemetery. Prices available on request.
Please discuss any specific religious, belief-based and/or cultural requirements that you have with the funeral director.
Additional funeral director products and services
The funeral director can supply a range of optional products and services, or we can arrange, on your behalf, for a third party to supply them. Examples include:
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.
Coffins
Disbursements
For church services, fees vary.
Costs for burial vary depending on where this is to take place.
Direct cremation (fixed price) – £1,675.00
The perfect option when no funeral service is required or requested.
A Direct Cremation is a NO SERVICE, NO ATTENDANCE funeral service and includes the following:
If you choose this option:
Craven Bereavement Services
Fees & Charges April 2026
Cremation Fees
Our attended service times are for a 50 minute service, which includes 10 minutes to gather mourners and 10 minutes for mourners to exit the crematorium chapel, giving a 30 minute service time. This is included in the cremation fee. This is not included in the no service time fee. Crematoria fees may vary dependent on the regional charges.
Children (17 years and under) the fee will be claimed by the Council on the family’s behalf from the Children’s Funeral Fund
All our cremation fees include fees associated with the cremation forms, medical referee fees, any environmental levies, the use of our music system*, use of the organ**, a biodegradable casket for the cremated remains, and an unwitnessed scatter in our seasonal garden if requested, and storage of cremated remains for 4 weeks.
*there are additional fees for any tributes/webcasting services
**there is an additional fee for the hire of an organist – organised separate to NYC
Additional fees
Scatter of Cremated Remains
Webcasts & visual tributes
Visual tributes
Webcasting/Streaming
Keepsakes
Service for young people
Cemetery fees
Waltonwrays and Ingleton Cemeteries
Children’s Burial Fees*
Half Graves – Waltonwrays & Ingleton Cemetery For the Interment of up to four sets of Cremated Remains
Memorials – Waltonwrays and Ingleton
Miscellaneous Charges
*additional fee for tributes applies
Disclosure of Interests
The Registered owners of this business is its Directors/Share Holders; VJ Howcroft-Metcalfe & JR Howcroft. We have no business or financial interest in price comparison websites which compares Funeral Director Services/or Crematoria Services and their respective prices.

Pre-Paid Funeral Plans
You may wish to consider taking out a Pre-Paid Funeral Plan. We offer the Golden Charter Independent Way Funeral Plan which lets you fix the cost of the funeral director’s services included in the plan at today’s prices. Should you require any information please contact us at any time.






















