Arranging a Child's Funeral

If you have experienced the loss of a pregnancy, a stillbirth or the death of a baby or child (up to the age of 18), we will provide the following services at no charge to you:

Professional Services - taking care of all necessary legal and administrative arrangements for your child's funeral:

• Collecting and transporting your child from the place of death into our care 
• Care of your child before the funeral in our facilities in Gosport

We will also help arrange to bring your child to rest at your own home if this is important.

• Providing a casket, or coffin of a simple design
• Visiting your child in our Family Room (Private Chapel of Rest) by appointment
• The provision of a motor hearse or limousine
• The personal attention of Richard Elkin, Cert. FD and Hayley Bell, Dip. FD, LMBIFD
• The provision of a celebrant or religious officiant to lead the funeral service

Support is available from the Children’s Funeral Fund, which can help pay for some of the costs of a funeral for a child under 18 or a baby stillborn after the 24th week of pregnancy. It is not means-tested: what you earn or how much you have in savings will not affect the help available.  Your Funeral Director will be able to help with the application

 If you have other funeral expenses, you might be able to apply for Funeral Expenses Payment to cover them. You or your partner must be getting certain benefits - check if you’re eligible for Funeral Expenses Payment. 

In England, cremation and burial fees, including doctors’ fees for cremation documents, and the cost of a burial plot, will be claimed back from the Children’s Funeral Fund on your behalf. 

In some instances, this may not include the purchase of exclusive rights to a grave space. We will be able to discuss this with you as a part of our no-obligation quotation service.

You can choose to ask us to arrange additional services or products which will incur a fee, though you are more than welcome to source the following yourself.  These other services or products include:

• Floral Tributes
• Service Sheets
• Newspaper Announcements
• Keepsakes
• Caskets and Urns
• Memorial Masonry
• Alternative Hearse, for example, a Horsedrawn Carriage
• Alternative Coffin
• Additional Limousines