Family Tree Funeral Company

At Family Tree, we believe you no longer need to follow the ‘default’ model of funeral that we’ve all attended and sometimes felt isolated from. Nor should you have to choose a range of services in a prescribed package format.

From our wide experience, we know the transformative possibility a good funeral can offer a family; the potential to create new – even wonderful – memories, and leave you, your family, and all who were there feeling fulfilled – even uplifted.

We pride ourselves on standing apart from other funeral directors in our area. What does this mean in practice?

• We are a small team and the same individual will be involved in looking after the person who has died from the time you first contact us until after the funeral. This is not the case with all funeral companies. In some, roles are split between the staff who collect the person, those that look after the person’s body, those that arrange the funeral and the funeral director on the day of the funeral.
• We are careful about the language we use. For example, we don’t use these words: ‘deceased’, ‘viewing’, ‘removal’, ‘passed’.
• We encourage as much involvement as the family would like at every stage of the process. Ours is not a ‘behind closed doors’ approach; we encourage the opposite because we know the difference it makes.
• We don’t attend funerals in ‘traditional’ Victorian-style clothing. We dress smartly and appropriately. Our premises are modern and comfortable, not formal and office-like. We are able to offer a dark blue Mercedes estate car as the funeral car on the day unless the family wants a traditional hearse.
• We are actively involved in our community in various ways, normalising the role of death and dying in our culture.
• Finally, we are independent! This means we have more freedom with how we do things and we are not run as part of a top-down corporation.

Based in Stroud and covering the whole of Gloucestershire and beyond, please get in touch – we can help.