Funeral Advice and Funeral Directing.
We provide a full range of services for funerals. Our aim is to support a family through that often harrowing and confusing period between a death and the end of the funeral. 

“In the hours and days following her death, your tactful, sensitive, non-judgemental and calm presence cleared the path for us to make the numerous decisions that faced us. The thoughtful way in which you worked served to minimise our stress, freeing us to arrange the farewell of our late mother in the way that we feel she would have liked and approved.” Rod Nelson and Clare Ballard

Like most people, you probably know little about what to do when someone dies and what's involved in arranging a funeral. If you add to this the trauma of having to come to terms with your loss, you may feel you have little option but to go with the norm and accept the often limited range of options offered.
We will discuss with you how to make a 'good' funeral, one where a family has enough information and support to participate in the choices and proceedings to the extent you wish. A 'good' funeral creates good memories which will always be there to comfort the bereaved and which will survive in the family stories, strengthening bonds between the generations.

There are few statutory rules and regulations governing funerals. We can help you to make the right choices for you and give support and advice on these specific areas:

• getting quotes for how much things cost
• a place to hold the funeral, not necessarily a church or crematorium
• beautiful and ecological coffins, wicker, bamboo, papier-mache, and shrouds
• green and woodland burials and burials on private land
• transporting, caring for a body and a vigil, if you wish
• all you need to make an inspirational and personal ceremony
• choosing the right person to conduct the ceremony
• rules, regulations, paperwork

Please note that our work with individuals and families to provide specific funeral advice and funeral directing is a local service in Devon. We can offer limited support on the phone, or you can find the information you need in our easy-to-read book, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE FUNERAL - 101 PRACTICAL WAYS TO COMMEMORATE AND CELEBRATE A LIFE, available from bookshops, Amazon or green fuse.
More information.

For funeral support and advice, please call Simon Smith or Jane Morrell on 01803 840779, or 07921 456075 for a direct line, or email simon@greenfuse.co.uk

If you may be interested in becoming a funeral adviser, please see the website of the Association of Independent Funeral Advisers at www.funeraladvisers.org.uk or www.nbft.org.uk