Funeral Notices - S Clarke & Son (2024)

Planning ahead for your funeral is one of the most thoughtful and caring things you can do for your family. Some people never get around to discussing funeral wishes with their loved ones, which can lead to all sorts of worry and anxiety when the time comes.

With a pre-paid funeral plan, you can cover the cost of our professional funeral directing services. As long as we carry out the services for your funeral and your requirements don’t change, your loved ones won’t be asked to pay a penny more for our funeral director services when the time comes. You can also include a contribution towards third party costs, such as the fees for interment or cremation, doctors’ fees and payment to an officiant, which are outside of our control and cannot be guaranteed. Your funeral pre-payment, excluding the initial administration fee and any instalment charges, is held in an individual whole of life assurance policy, arranged by our plan provider, Ecclesiastical Planning Services Ltd who are part of a specialist financial services group. The money cannot be used for anything other than your funeral, for your total peace of mind.

For more information, please download our funeral plans brochure here. You can also book a funeral planning appointment by clicking here.

Taking out a funeral plan is a simple and straightforward way to make provision for the future. Some of the other benefits include:

• Pre-arranging the details of your funeral and including any special wishes
• The ability to choose your funeral director in advance
• Ensuring your family has access to expert help at a difficult time
• No complicated medical or health forms to complete.

Next Steps

The easiest way to learn more or set up a plan for yourself or someone else is to visit us at one of our branches. You can book an appointment by clicking here. Alternatively feel free to have a chat with us at 028 9124 2057 or 028 9163 8383 (Bangor branch).

The plan covers the funeral director’s costs listed in the plan details as long as your requirements don’t change, and your selected funeral director carries out your funeral.

The plan can also include an allowance towards third party costs such as the fees for cremation or interment, doctors’ fees, and payment to an officiant. These costs are outside of our control. If these costs, as listed in the plan details, are not covered by the plan value at the time of need, there will be a balance to pay. Please refer to the Terms and Conditions for more information.

We are an Appointed Representative of funeral plan provider, Ecclesiastical Planning Services. As part of a specialist, UK-based financial services group, Ecclesiastical Planning Services has offered pre-payment funeral plans since 2006.

When you take out a funeral plan with us, Ecclesiastical Planning Services arranges for the funds, excluding the initial administration fee and any instalment charges, to be held in an individual whole of life assurance policy. This means that the full value of your plan, excluding the administration fee and any instalment charges, is ring-fenced and the money cannot be used for anything but your funeral when the time comes.

Ecclesiastical Planning Services is part of a large Group that gives available profits to charity and is proud to have been named the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor to charities (The Directory of Social Change, The UK Guide to Company Giving 2023/24).