Funerals with care, without worry

Hugh O'Brien Funeral Services

We can arrange everything to suit exactly your (or your loved one’s) wishes. You choose how your funeral should be. Whether you prefer a traditional or an eco-friendly funeral, we can arrange it for you. We can handle receptions and wakes to suit your family culture. We can organise the Order of Service (including readings, music and poetry) and deal with Church Ministers (or the official at a non-religious funeral) if you prefer.

Throughout, you are assured of a caring and understanding service and an extremely

high level of personal attention. Our expert services also include pre-planning (Funeral Plans), Wills and legal services, counselling, advice on senior care and post-funeral services. We always remember that you are in control and this day should be as you would have liked it to be.

Hugh O'Brien Funeral Services are now partners of Ian Clarke Funeral Directors

Visit us online at www.funeralplanninguk.com

Tel: 0161 283 9060 & 07786 267689

Email: admin@funeralplanninguk.com 

Order your

Funeral Planning

Journal for only £9.95 :

www.funeralplans.co/thefuneralplanningjournal.html

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Highest quality funeral arrangements at a sensible price

Funerals with care, without worry

We can arrange everything to suit exactly your (or your loved one’s) wishes. You choose how your funeral should be. Whether you prefer a traditional or an eco-friendly funeral, we can arrange it for you. We can handle receptions and wakes to suit your family culture. We can organise the Order of Service (including readings, music and poetry) and deal with Church Ministers (or the official at a non-religious funeral) if you prefer.

 

Throughout, you are assured of a caring and understanding service and an extremely

high level of personal attention. Our expert services also include pre-planning (Funeral Plans), Wills and legal services, counselling, advice on senior care and post-funeral services. We always remember that you are in control and this day should be as you would have liked it to be.

 

Visit us online at www.funeralplanner.co

Tel: 0161 283 9060 & 07581 705303

Email: admin@funeralplans.co

 

Order your

Funeral Planning

Journal for only £9.95 :

www.funeralplans.co/thefuneralplanningjournal.html

Stockport's Heritage: Heaton Moor Historical Society-meeting

Stockport's Heritage: Heaton Moor Historical Society-meeting

Funeral Planning Journal available at £9.95

The Funeral Planning Journal is only £9.95 when ordering online at http://www.funeralplans.co/thefuneralplanningjournal.html.

There are many reasons why you decide to plan your funeral  and the most important one is to make sure the family knows your every wish for the funeral and how your life can be celebrated.

It will allow you to enjoy the rest of your life having the peace of mind that everything is in order.

All your wishes will be listed and available in a treasured journal, all your personal plans will be available for your family to follow and it will prevent family arguments as they follow everything you want.

In certain instances where you have no family the journal will be passed to your friends and carers to make sure all the wishes are followed.

The journal will cover all the essential areas including practical instructions to make sure your full estate is administered by the executors in the best and most sensible way and reducing any areas of indecision.

This document will sit next to your Will with the Solicitor and be available to your family and friends on your passing.

The Funeral Planning Journal is a document which will serve as your Letter of Wishes, and offer your family and executors complete clarity at a time when they will be stressed and needing assistance.

You can sit with your family and in your own time answer the important questions. In our experience we know this will help your loved ones find the answers to all those important questions as they make arrangements.

The Funeral Planning Journal is only £9.95 when ordering online at http://www.funeralplans.co/thefuneralplanningjournal.html. If you want to order by post please send a cheque to CVRC for £11.95 and post to the address below:

Funeral Planner

1 Stanley Grove

Heaton Moor

Stockport

SK4 4HP

 http://www.funeralplans.co

Funeral Planning Journal

The sensitive subject of planning for your Funeral is an area most people want to avoid, we offer the much needed help and support to make the process easier.


There are many reasons why you decide to plan your Funeral and the most important one is to make sure the family knows your every wish for the Funeral and how your life can be celebrated.
It will allow you to enjoy the rest of your life having the peace of mind that everything is in order.


All your wishes will be listed and available in a treasured journal, all your personal plans will be available for your family to follow and it will prevent family arguments as they follow everything you want.


In certain instances where you have no family the journal will be passed to your friends and carers to make sure all the wishes are followed.


The planning journal will cover all the essential areas including practical instructions to make sure your full estate is administered by the executors in the best and most sensible way and reducing any areas of indecision.


This document will sit next to your Will with the Solicitor and be available to your family and friends on your passing.


The Funeral Planning Journal is a document which will serve as your Letter of Wishes, and offer your family and executors’ complete clarity at a time when they will be stressed and needing assistance. 

You can sit with your family and in your own time answer the important questions.  In our experience we know this will help your loved ones find the answers to all those important questions as they make arrangements. 

For more information on future planning or planning a funeral please call Hugh or Lesley 0845 245 0026. If you prefer to email admin@funeralplans.co 

Green Burials Help the Earth and Your Wallet

Many people think of cremation as a more Earth-friendly way of dealing with their remains on this post-mortal coil, but what about the energy expended converting our body to ashes? What about the air pollution, such as mercury, from that conflagration? And what about the potential soil nutrients that this steals from the ground? In my opinion, I’ve lived off of the nutrients provided by the world for many years and have a moral obligation to give something nutritious back upon my death.

That’s why I’m pleased to see the growing field of green funerals. No longer do we need to be shackled to the traditional Christian burial process of embalming, placing in a air-tight elaborate casket and entombing the casket in a concrete vault.

A green burial is, as you might expect, a much less elaborate affair. In fact, as Josh Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, said to me, “If you want to know what a green burial is, ask your great-great-grandparents.”

Slocum said that a green burial is all about what you don’t buy. You can cross off embalming and use a simple wood box (built locally).

There are more aspects to a green burial, however, than simplifying the body preparation and container. There are green cemeteries and natural woodland areas. The cemeteries often will allow the marking of a grave with only a stone or plant or plaque set flush with the ground. The area will be allowed to return to nature, its abundance fertilized by the deceased.

There is three types of green burial grounds:

1. Hybrid, which allow burials without anything to protect the casket, and accepts uncremated bodies.
2. Natural Burial Grounds, which prohibit bodies embalmed with toxic chemicals, any features such as vault lids that would retard decomposition, any caskets not made of a natural material, and the grounds must be designed to maintain a natural appearance.
3. Conservation Burial Grounds, which “must protect in perpetuity an area of land specifically and exclusively designated for conservation.”

Slocum cautioned “You cannot consume your way to conservation.” When the day comes that I’m done consuming, a green burial might be an appropriate way to hold my place in the food chain; above cows and just below worms.

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Understanding the Probate Service

“Probate”is the word commonly used for the administration of a deceased’s Estate. It actually means the name of the legal document that is produced by the High Court if the deceased left a valid Will with surviving Executors.

There are several ‘Grants’ that can be issued, but the most popular are the Grant of Probate and the Grant of Letters of Administration, for when someone dies “intestate” (without a Will).

Role of Administrator or Executor

Simply, it is the responsibility of the Executor or Administrator to deal with all aspects of the administration of the deceased’s Estate. In practice, many Executors and Administrators ask a solicitor to do this for them, due to the sizeable amount of paperwork that is generated.

Solicitors can be appointed as Executors and this is usual where you wish to ensure that a particular firm carries out the administration of the Estate for you, especially where there is a house involved.

The solicitor holding the Will should be approached as soon as possible after death in order that they can make the necessary arrangements for the administration of the Estate. If there is a Will and it is held by a solicitor you must inform that solicitor of the death as soon as possible.

A list of assets and liabilities will be compiled. If necessary, assets will be professionally valued. Once the values of the assets and liabilities have been obtained, the necessary Inland Revenue forms will be completed, a formal Oath will be sworn and the application made for the appropriate Grant .

The assets of an Estate cannot be encashed, or a house sold, until the Grant has been issued. Even when the entire Estate has been liquidated, it is not always a good idea to distribute it amongst the beneficiaries. There are two specific deadlines that have to be considered – one for creditors of the estate and another for potential beneficiaries to make a claim. 

Also, an Executor or Administrator is not legally obliged to distribute an Estate until one year has elapsed from the date of death. Most non-professional Executives do not know this, and will make payments from an Estate without being aware of the personal liability they may have. Administrating an Estate can be a complex and time-consuming task. 

Asking a solicitor to act on your behalf is not an admission of defeat – it is extremely sensible! A good solicitor will keep you involved in the process, and provide you with regular updates. You should always use a solicitor who is experienced in dealing with Estates, preferably one who is a member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP), a prestigious organisation for those who are specialists in the areas of Wills, Trusts and Estates.

Probate Advice

Funeral Planner have linked up with TWP LLP and offer probare services.

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