Our enduring strength that caters for everyone

Meet the Team - Amanda-Louise Funeral Directors

At Amanda-Louise's we are award winning and quality assured by SAIF (the main body who set standards for independent funeral directors and inspects them). We arrange and conduct funerals mainly in the South West but have worked across the UK and Ireland. We value those who work for Amanda-Louise.

We want you to feel confident and connected with the people arranging your funeral. We know how important a person’s story is when you’re getting to know someone, so here is a little bit of information for each member of our team.

Amanda-Louise Knight (BA) Hons

Amanda-Louise owns the business and is the lead funeral director and undertaker - click to read Amanda-Louise's story

Gill Carroll

Gill is one of our lady funeral directors, having joined us in 2023. Gill has a wealth of experience and skillset, having served in the police and medical environment.

Gill works alongside Amanda-Louise sensitively caring for our deceased guests, or can be found supporting our clients as their dedicated funeral director. She has even be known to be a bearer for us too.

Gill lives in Minehead and has two adult children, and enjoys walking and running.

Elizabeth Gooding

Lizzie is very new to our team and currently with us on limited hours. Lizzie has a strong background working as a nurse, and specialised in end of life care. She lives in Taunton.

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Why We Love What We Do

We have developed into a unique funeral business privileged working with our awesome clients (although its a pleasure to get to know everyone albeit under such sad circumstances) They are the first to tell us how uplifting we are, with our positive can-do attitudes, how we like to ensure they have choice, in control of the decisions and that we never dictate what a funeral should look like, nor do we rush you. We've gained a reputation as a fresh approach when it matters the most. We are definitely client centric - we love people and getting to know about their loved ones stories, so that when its time to commemorate them, we capture the very essence of their spirit.

Our Gift for You Of Time

We wont rush you into making big decisions. We can open you up to a world of possibilities, as lets face it, we only have one chance to say goodbye, so we'll help you have whats right for you. We ensure every detail counts. And this means we save you time, stress and the hard work navigating around planning a funeral, and on the day itself leave us to ensure everything goes smoothly.

What's Our Top Secret?

We love what we do - well that's not really a secret if you know us already!

Communication, its our key to success; from listening to you, inspiring you, to laugh, smile and cry with you, and to calm you when you need a shoulder to lean on. And importantly as we hold your hands, we'll be working in sync within our own friendly team, and in harmony with all the other suppliers.

So That Makes Us, Simply Us

Discover how Amanda-Louise and the team can help you whatever your vision is for your day to say farewell, our award winning and quality assured services are ready whenever you are, whenever you need us.