Whitehouse Funeral Service

Kate Dow, who is a second year A-level student will be swapping sunny climbs in Darlington for Malaysia, South Africa or Swaziland after being selected from thousands of applicants for a placement with Project Trust. Once there she will be a teaching assistant helping disadvantaged children.
To get there she needs to raise £5,100.00 to fund [...]

Funeral directors are using hard sell tactics on vulnerable families, trying to push added extras such as embalming, to increase the price.
An independent survey has been done by ‘Which’ on best practice within the Funeral industry.
Calls were made to independently run funeral directors and also outlets of the two biggest chains, Co-op [...]

This years ‘Giving To Life Tree…’ has again raised a staggering amount.
Every year Whitehouse Funeral Service has a christmas tree in reception to help people remember a loved one lost at a difficult time of the year.
All anniversaries following a bereavement are difficult in the first year but the most difficult time seems to be [...]

Your support is needed:
Increase the DWP Allowence for Funeral Payments
Responsible department: Department for Work and Pensions
The current allowance for funeral payments is usually the cremation fee (anything from £400 – £800) and doctors’ fees (currently £147) or equivalent burial fees and up to £700 for other expenses (church services, vicars or celebrant [...]

Police in Tennessee were called to a funeral home where workers found two intruders sleeping inside coffins.
The employees at Weaver’s Funeral Home in Bristol called police at about 10.30am on Tuesday after finding two men asleep in the coffins. The men fled through a window after police were alerted, the Bristol Herald [...]

JC Atkinson would like to introduce the most amazing picture coffin ‘in the World!’
As part of our trade show stand at the NFE this weekend, we will be showing this amazing Reflections picture coffin!
It really needs to be seen to be believed, we think it perfectly demonstrates the diverse nature and quality of our Reflections [...]

Darlington Register Office Launches New Initiative.
From Thursday, 16th June 2011 Darlington Register Office will be offering an additional service to all cutomers who attend the Register Office to Register a Birth or Death..
What is Tell Us Once?
‘Tell Us Once’ is a national project by the Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) and Darlington Borough Council [...]

The time has come for the next instalment of The National Funeral Exhibition.
Running from 10 – 12 June 2011 at Stoneleigh Park Exhibition Centre, Warwickshire.
Everything that is new in the Funeral trade will be on display.
Funeral related companies will be launching new products not only for Funeral Directors but for Funeral Directors to offer to [...]

Golden Charter has lauched a new TV add campaign which will be aired nationally on ITV3 and on ITV1 in selected regions.
This will help with a campaign that Whitehouse Funeral Service is running at the minute to bring awareness to people for the need for some sort of provison in place to pay for their [...]

We are happy to promote this new helpline…
Today marks the launch of an important initiative: a national free End-of-Life Rights Information Line.  It is the first of its kind to support people who are dying, their loved ones, carers and healthcare professionals by providing information on their existing end-of-life rights and how they can prepare [...]