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)

  • This is a funeral where family and friends have a ceremony, event or service for the deceased person at the same time as their burial or cremation – £2,691.00

  • Taking care of all necessary legal and administrative arrangements – £995.00

  • Collecting and transporting the deceased person from the place of death (normally within 15 miles of our premises) into our care – £205.00

  • Care of the deceased person before the funeral in appropriate facilities. The deceased person will rest at our branch premises – £555.00

  • Providing a suitable coffin for burial or cremation – the Bridge coffin is a standard oak veneered coffin, fully lined and with electro brass or wooden handles – £430.00

  • Hearse and Limousine hire for the funeral (each) – £305.00

  • At a date and time you agree with us, we will take the deceased person direct to your choice of cemetery or crematorium (which can be up to 20 miles from our premises) in a hearse with the necessary staff to facilitate the funeral – £505.00

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.

  • Burial (funeral directors charges only) – £1,212.00

  • Cremation (funeral directors charges plus cremation fee) – £1,675.00

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:

  • Embalming (Hygienic treatment to delay the natural effects of death) – £110.00

  • Addition charge for moving the deceased out of office hours – £55.00

  • Additional mileage (per mile) – £2.00

  • Additional transfers of the deceased person’s body (e.g to their home, to a place of worship etc) (per transfer) – £305.00

  • Viewing of the deceased person for family and friends, by appointment with us, the funeral director (office hours only) – £1.00

  • Viewing the deceased out of office hours – £55

  • Local delivery of cremated remains – £1.00

  • Funeral Officiant (e,g celebrant, minister of religion etc) from £240.00

  • Services supplied outside normal hours – P.O.A

  • Cremated remains casket with engraved name plate – £90.00

  • Scatter tube for cremated remains (various designs) – £40.00

  • Provision of attendance cards/list mourners – £80

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

  • Bridge coffin – £430.00

  • York coffin / Wharfedale coffin – £645.00

  • Mayfair coffin – £795.00

  • Willow coffin (or similar) – £1025.00

  • Swaledale wool coffin – £1100.00

  • Cardboard coffins –  from £500.00

  • Cheltenham coffin – £560.00

  • Solid Pine coffin – £810.00

Disbursements

  • Organist at the Crematorium – from £85.00

  • Ministers’ fees at the Crematorium – from £240.00

  • Press notices (Craven Herald) – £180.00 est

For church services, fees vary.
Costs for burial vary depending on where this is to take place.

  • Grave digging fees (churchyards / Tarn Moor) – from £600.00
  • Grave digging fees (Waltonwrays Cemetery) – from £1020.00

  • Bio Cremation Casket – £5.00

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:

  • Provision of professional services, completion of all necessary documentation and liaison with third parties.
  • Bringing the deceased into our care during normal office hours, within a 10 mile radius of our premises and the use of our private Chapel of Rest (out of hours transfers may be subject to a supplementary charge).
  • Provision of a simple coffin.
  • The cremation fee – the cremation will take place at a time, date and location of our choice.
  • Provision of a suitable vehicle to transfer the deceased to the crematorium.

If you choose this option:

  • Clients must attend our office to sign the necessary cremation paperwork.

  • Visiting the deceased is not included in this package.
  • Cremated remains must be collected from our offices.

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.

  • Cremation Fee

    • Held over – £985.00
    • Same Day Additional Fee – £50.00
  • No Service Times – Held over Only – this does not include use of chapel
    8.40 am and 8.50 am – £463.00

  • Early Morning slot
    9.10 am – £725.00

  • Double Service time Additional Fee
    Equating to One Hour 50 minutes service time – £235.00

  • Cremation Fee NVF – under 24 gestation

    • With use of Chapel – £205.00
    • No service – F.O.C

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

  • Cremation of Organs/Body Parts – £64.00

  • Storage of Cremated Remains – per week after first 4 weeks – £35.00

  • Over running funeral service – £235.00

  • Late cremation forms – £35.00

  • Cancellation of service within 3 working days of scheduled booking – £150.00

  • Eller (bio cremation casket) additional to the one given at time of cremation – £10.00*

  • Baby urn (bio degradable) – £15.00*

  • Carleton cremation casket in solid oak with plate – £65.00*
  • Duplicate Cremation Certificate – £16

Scatter of Cremated Remains

  • Scatter of Cremated Remains from Skipton Crematorium

    • Family present – £75.00
    • No family present – Free of charge
  • Scatter from another Crematorium – £125.00

Webcasts & visual tributes

Visual tributes

  • Single Photo

    • First copy – Free of charge
    • Additional copies – £15.00
  • Basic Slideshow
    Photo slideshow of up to 25 photos with simple transition, set to loop. No music included. – £52.00

  • Music Tribute
    A beautifully crafted Tribute of up to 25 photos, timed to a chosen piece of music with fade transitions. – £78.00
  • Themed Tribute
    Chosen from a range of curated themes up to 25 photos professionally edited, timed to a chosen piece of music. – £95.00

  • Family supplied
    A supplied video/photo tribute with basic quality checks and played at a poignant time in the service – £34.00

  • Extra work charge
    Fee for any additional work applied to any of the standard products or for the late upload of photos – £25.00

  • Extra Photos
    For each set of 25 photos on a visual tribute – £25.00

  • Tribute Download
    Downloadable version of a tribute – £15.00

Webcasting/Streaming

  • Webcast – inc 28 view
    Professional live streamed service so people can watch and pay their respects virtually. Available to order after the service if required.
    VAT exempt – £52.00

  • Webcast Download
    Downloadable version of the service to keep – additional to fee above – £15.00

  • Webcast Download -standalone
    Downloadable version of webcast to keep – when no webcast was ordered – £50.00

Keepsakes

  • DVD or USB
    A one-of-a-kind memento to keep forever. Keepsake copy of the service, tribute or both, in a personalised grey linen case. – £60.00

  • Video Book
    For those who want to revisit their service wherever or whenever. A portable video of the service, tribute or both set in its own A5 electronic screen with 5 functional buttons, encased in a linen-wrapped book. – £100.00

  • Memory Box
    You an choose up to 25 photos to be professionally printed and delivered in a bespoke, personalised linen-wrapped box alongside your service, tribute, or both on DVD and USB memory stick. – £130.00

  • Extra Copies

    • Keepsake DVD or USB – £32.00
    • Video book – £75.00
    • Memory box – £100.00

Service for young people

  • For young people under the age of 18

    • Webcast – Live & On Demand – Free of Charge 
    • Single Photo – Free of Charge 
    • Simple Slideshow – Free of Charge 

Cemetery fees

Waltonwrays and Ingleton Cemeteries

  • Exclusive Right of burial Fees

    • Full Grave 50 years – Earthen Grave – £1,250.00
    • Full Grave 50 years – Earthen Grave Interment of a Casket exceeding 28″ in width (double grave) – £2,500.00
    • Full Grave 50 years
      For Vault/ Bricked/ Wooden Grave – £1,900.00
  • Interment Fees – Earthen Grave

    • Grave for 1 or 2 interments – £1020.00
    • Grave for 3 interments
      Not available for new graves – Price On Application
    • Inter Casket Exceeding 28″ wide – £1,530.00
  • Weekend Interment Fee Subject to availability – Price on Application*

  • Interment of Cremated Remains – £260.00

  • Construction of Vault/Bricked grave
    Exclusive Rights & Interment Fees also apply – Price on Application*

  • Open and Inter in Constructed Vault – £885.00

Children’s Burial Fees*

  • Purchase of Exclusive Rights for 50 years
    Angel’s Garden (baby section) Waltonwrays Cemetery
    (maximum coffin length 4′) – £625.00

  • Purchase of Exclusive Rights (half grave)
    Up to 5 years old – £625.00

  • Purchase of Exclusive Rights (full grave)
    5 years old until 18 years old – £1,250.00

  • Interment Fee – including use of chapel and music system

    • NVF up to 3 months old – £400.00
    • 3 months old until 5 years old – £540.00
    • 5 years old until 18 years old – £1,230.00
  • Consent to place a Memorial – Angel’s Garden – £110.00

Half Graves – Waltonwrays & Ingleton Cemetery For the Interment of up to four sets of Cremated Remains

  • Purchase of Exclusive Rights – 50 years – £625.00

  • Interment of Cremated Remains – £260.00

  • Provision of a Member of staff to undertake a reading – subject to availability – £50.00

Memorials – Waltonwrays and Ingleton

  • Consent to place memorial (including first inscription) – £240.00

  • Consent to place memorial (including first inscription) – Over sized memorial
    Vault/ Bricked / Wooden Grave – £380.00

  • Consent to place memorial (including first inscription) – Double width memorial – Double Grave – £510.00

  • Consent to place additional inscription/replacement memorial – £125.00

  • Consent to place kerbs

    • Full Grave – £485.00
    • Half Grave – £320.00
  • Consent to place memorial exceeding 1 meter in height – POA

  • Consent to place vase including inscription – On Graves – £115.00

  • Consent to place inscription on stone plaque or granite desktop – £115.00

Miscellaneous Charges

  • Use of Chapel for Burial Service at North Yorkshire Council Cemetery -includes full use of the music and tribute system* – £235.00

  • Use of Chapel for Burial Service at a non North Yorkshire Council Cemetery – includes full use of the music and tribute system* – £400.00

  • Family history search
    Per Hour – £30.00

  • Vase insert – per insert – £11.00*

  • Grave Maintenance including Summer and Winter flowering plants – £170.00*

  • Exhumation of Full burial – POA
  • Exhumation of Cremated Remains – POA
  • Transfer of burial Rights
    Up to 2 hours – £125.00

  • Provision of a member of staff to undertake reading at grave side (interment of ashes only) (subject to availability) – £50.00

  • Hire of gazebo (subject to availability) – £106.00
  • Use of bariatric lowering device – £310.00

  • External hire of bariatric lowering device (stored in Harrogate) – £740.00

*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.

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