Award Winning and Quality Assured Funeral Home proudly supporting our local families in Minehead, Exmoor, Somerset, Devon and beyond on request.
Amanda-Louise Lady Independent Funeral Directors
When you place your trust in Amanda-Louise, Gill and team, you can expect the highest standards of professionalism and understanding.
Let our strength help you find yours - with care and compassion Amanda-Louise Lady Funeral Directors & Undertakers, are here to guide you through life's heaviest moments, step by step. We can arrange a funeral within 7 days, subject to availability. Call us on 01643 800335 - when a death occurs we are available 24/7.
At Amanda-Louise, Our Clients Are At The Heart of All That We Do
We are a compassionate, experienced & quality accredited Independent Lady Funeral Directors in Somerset, offering an unrivalled personalised and distinctive service, based on honesty, choice and value whatever your budget. We offer both Direct and Simple Cremations, Traditional Funerals whilst our Bespoke Service can be tailored to suit your needs. We'll guide you through every step of the journey. Here for everyone, wherever your are, whenever you need us.
Personal Message To You, From Owner Amanda-Louise:
"Hello and welcome to my trusted awarded independent funeral director services here in our beautiful West Country region of England, where we believe in values, wrapped around our women's understanding, intuition and nurturing qualities, are unrivalled.
When you choose us, expect to be supported from the moment you contact us until you no longer need us. Our unrivalled services offers a lady funeral directors and undertakers, with a team of male and female bearers. We are an independent funeral services owned privately by myself where I have a hands on approach. and our gift of time is offered to all. Experience, true compassion with my hand picked team who truly care, everyone embraces the values of my mission, wrapped around our care of the living, the departed, our communities and our environment. But we dont just stop there, our charity work helping those in hunger locally, helping veterans, our climate action, and sponsorship of girls and women in sports defines our ethos.
Our reputation has allowed us to accommodate funerals outside of our area, the furthest so far we have travelled to Northern Ireland, Cambridge, Hampshire and Cardiff. For those who do not want a funeral to be held at a Church or Crematorium, you can experience exceptional hospitality at my funeral home, offering a private space to be hired to hold a service (whether traditional officiated by a minister, celebrant, family member or even us) and catering too.
Our accommodation for our guests is first rate and safe. Everyone whom we care for is treated as our guests. We will collect the person who has died with dignity, and on return to our funeral home in Blenheim Road, Minehead, they will be placed in our onsite state of art clinical mortuary facilities. We cater for every need, whether offering you the choice to help look after your loved one in our care, from washing, changing clothing, brushing hair to applying makeup, perfume or aftershave if you wish. You tell us how you wish us to look after your loved one, from offering a safe place to rest, to preparing them for you to spend time with them, to offering embalming treatments. Our robust policies and procedures results that your loved one is safe in our care, as our security and recording of all that we do, when and where is always captured and monitored. Our mortuary has security devices to ensure unauthorised people cannot gain access to that space.
Families’ wellness is also important to us. Every detail is thoughtfully crafted to ensure we take the burden of logistics from your shoulders, so you can focus onlooking after you and those around you. Our aim is that your experience of how we support you during this challenging time, means you have a fresh approach to funeral support, where we do not cut corners, to exceed expectations, equipping you with knowledge of how a funeral can meet your needs and wants, without any judgement, opening you up to a world of possibilities to reflect the very essence of the spirit of your loved one, as we know a meaningful funeral helps you in your bereavement journey.
In addition, our doors wont close after the day of the funeral, offering a variety of grief support including free bereavement groups, advice to parents about child grief and even 1:1 support for children to come to terms with the death of a loved one; resulting in everyone taking steps forward in their own amazing journey in life.
So I hope this gives you a little insight to the type of support and services you will expect from us; each tailored to you individually.
So please trust us, allowing us the privilege of serving you, experiencing a funeral service like no other, where you can pay tribute, say farewell, honour and celebrate them in their last passage of their life, allowing you to mourn and take small steps ahead in your own amazing journey called life.
If you have experienced a loss, please accept our heartfelt condolences - we're here to help you anyway we can, and it starts with you saying "hello" ringing my funeral home office telephone 01643 800335 (available 24/7 in emergencies) or email us: office@amandalouisefuneralservices.co.uk
Regards, Amanda-Louise”
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Our Pricing
Our transparent and clear pricing can be found here
Our Funerals
Choosing the right services for a funeral can be stressful. We take that stress away by helping navigate the various decisions you have to make.
The enduring strength of women - Let Our Strength Help You Find Yours
Our unrivalled value
It is an utter privilege for us to look after every family that entrusts their loved ones into our care. We can cater for just about anything that a family asks us to do to make their funeral unique and personal to them. We will go the extra mile and will try our utmost to fulfil a family’s every wish whilst they say goodbye to someone they treasured.
We are here to ease your burden, help you process your grief and provide your lost loved one with a memorable farewell that honours their life and strengthens - their legacy. We will walk by your side, look after every detail, so you can focus on healing before, during and after the service.
Our funeral home - has been professionally designed to be a open calm place, not dark and sombre.
Everything under our one roof - we take care of every single detail. Our services offers everything you may want or need for a funeral or memorial celebrating a life wherever you are. Our products offer a diverse collection o fcaskets, coffins and urns from traditional or modern as well as funeral flowers, hearses and limousines and personalised orders of service. We can also create and organise funeral hospitality, and you can hire our Chapel to hold your funeral service in a beautiful space. Afterwards, we offer temporary and permanent grave markers and headstones, and a large range of items for cremated ashes to treasure.
Our doors do not close - being empathetic funeral directors our support continues after the day of the funeral, we offer monthly coffee mornings bereavement groups ensuring the positives in life continue. Trained in bereavement counselling, we can offer 1:1 grief support for adults and children, as well as signpost you to therapy specialists. We know grief isn't just for one day, so where we can our kettle is on if you wish to pop in for a chat. You're welcome to attend one of our social events.
Our care for the departed - we look after every person who has died entrusted into our care with great respect, everyone we consider as "our guests". Amanda-Louise an Gill carry out the care of your loved one.. Our clinical mortuary is on site in our funeral home, that is locked and we have security procedures that are strictly adhered to.
Our positive social impacts and sustainability pledges - demonstrate our support to the living, our communities and our planet. In sports we sponsor the development of ladies rugby
We are Specialists – not only are we empathetic showing endless compassion for families and communities in grief with our trained counselling skills, but also in the funeral director industry sector. We also have a robust background in planning occasions that are traditional, modern or natural in their approach including many religious denominations. This means we can support you to have a private, dignified and peaceful goodbye, or one that echos the very essence and joy of the person’s being, to even those flamboyant themed party send-offs.
We are Trustworthy – since opening we have gained a reputation for care we provide, and have received a number of accolades and awards. In addition we belong to recognised associations in the industry. We are accredited members of SAIF – The Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors, providing peace of mind for you and your family that not only do we follow their code of practice but we are independently inspected. We are also associated members of The Green Association of Funeral Directors recognising that we can also offer more environmental friendly choices.
Our Values– we care for the departed, the living, our communities and our environment. We do not hide behind closed doors or mislead you. Whilst we honour the traditions of the Victorian era, our modern approach we'd rather listen to what you want and need. We wont rush you, we can open you up toa world of possibilities, empowering you to make decisions. Plus our positive social impacts and sustainability pledges, demonstrate our support to our communities and our planet.
Our Independence & Visability – being a privately locally owned business means we are flexible, consistent in our approach and go the extra mile for you, as we believe this is our vocation and not just a job. Being independent – this means we are privately run ie we are not a large corporation such as the Co-op, Dignity or Funeral Groups. We are on the high street – this means you liaise with us face to face, rather than online funeral telesales providers advertising on the TV.
Our Women’s Understanding – our families tell us our understanding, discretion, sensitivity, honesty, nurturing qualities and our time afforded to you, goes along way. You will find us with a smile, a shoulder to lean on, a hug when you need it, an ear to listen, and our roll up our sleeves attitude means we will do everything in our power to ease some of the burden from you, by your side every step of the way.
Our Services & Prices
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Minehead Funeral Service
Opportunity to have a local funeral gathering in our beautiful funeral home (exclusive hire) for up to 45 people with tea and coffee, to include Minehead coffin, facilities to have photos shown on large TV, and music. Includes unattended cremation costs. Opportunity to upgrade to include food, drink, webcasting for example.
Unattended Essentials Only Direct Cremation
Our direct "pure" cremation funeral package provides a cremation only
Includes our professional fees, coffin, private ambulance to local crematorium for unattended cremation, and unattended cremation fee
Bespoke Funeral Cremation or Burial
This full and flexible choice is not a fixed "package" so gives you to ultimate way to tailor make a funeral, whatever tone and style you require
Unattended Enhanced Direct Cremation
Our enhanced direct funeral package provides a cremation only with no attendance, but provides elevated options – collections out of hours and non-hospital settings, option to visit the person who has died and/or have them dressed, longer in our care if required, and we can deliver the ashes to you locally if you prefer. Includes unattended cremation fee.
Simplicity Cremation Funeral
A 30 minute service at 8.30am, 9am or 5.30pm held at Sedgemoor Crematorium for up to 25 attendees OR a 20 minute service or 9am or 9.30am at Taunton Crematorium for upto 20 people (to include entry and exit). Includes our professional fees, coffin and reflection attended crematorium fee.
Add Meaning & Personality
We offer a complete range of funeral products, from choosing the flowers and the cars to designing the perfect ceremony to help you say goodbye
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Our emotional wellbeing, support and grief counseling can give you the help and counselling you need to deal with the loss of loved one. Our focus is on helping you every step of the way providing wrap around care before, during and after the funeral.
We offer emotional support & grief counseling as part of our service
