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Bereavement Services
Burial, cremation & memorialisation
Bereavement Services provides a personal, caring and dignified service to any member of the public that has suffered a bereavement. Confidential and impartial advice on how to organise a funeral is available, ensuring that people receive the highest standard of care, choice and dignity.
Ceremonies for all religious, non-religious and cultural traditions are available at either woodvale crematorium or seven, well maintained, cemeteries across the city with traditional, lawn and woodland graves available.
Bereavement Services has been awarded the Government's Charter Mark for excellence in the provision of a public service on four consecutive occasions. It has been nationally recognised for the development of its woodland burial scheme, and in the Good Funeral Guide 2000 [MS Word 170] it was awarded the Best Crematorium in the South of England.
Bereavement services also provides:
- information on what to do when a death occurs
- details about how to register a death
- advice on coping with bereavement
- contact details of organisations to help the bereaved
- details about civil funerals
- a list of pre-recorded music [MS Word 6927kb] available for playing at funeral services
- a public mortuary
- a supporting service to HM Coroner for the City of Brighton & Hove
- guidance on self-help funerals [MS Word 210kb]
- information about burials in private land [MS Word 176kb]
- section 46 of the Public Health Act 1984 welfare funerals
- a genealogy research service
- a list of our current fees and charges [MS Word 128kb]
- a copy of our current service delivery plan [MS Word 419kb]
- the latest edition of Woodvale News [MS Word 223kb]
All personal visits or postal enquiries may be made by contacting Bereavement Services.
Kindly note that the Downs Crematorium and the Brighton & Preston Cemetery, both located in Brighton, are owned and managed by Dignity Funerals Ltd, a Private Company, and have no connection with Brighton & Hove City Council.