Whitehouse Funeral Service

Whitehouse Funeral Service where invited to the Golden Charter Funeral Plan lunch at The Gosforth Park Hotel, Newcastle.
The event took place on Saturday 17th March 2012. At the lunch was most of the nominated Funeral Directors from all over the UK.
An award is given to all those firms who have made the grade with increased [...]

Finding different ways to raise money can be very hard but not for business women Dorothy Whitehouse.
An old recipe helped her come up with an amazing and successful idea. Small bottles of home made Ginger wine were sold for 50p each resulting in a total of £ 151.78.
Dorothy said ‘ I have enjoyed making the [...]

Could this be the death knell of religious services.
Changes announced by the Church’s General Synod could mean a hike of 40% on fees.
This means an average fee of £150 for a minister at Darlington Crematorium would possible increase to £210.00.
This coupled with more and more of us choosing to have a none religious service.
What will [...]

Could this be the news Cockerton Library, Darlington has been waiting for… after it was earmarked for closure

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 [...]