Forsters Funeral Directors
Sunderland
Forsters Funeral Directors
Sunderland
Forsters Funeral Directors
6 The Green, Southwick, Sunderland, SR5 2JE
Lines open 24 hours a day
About our Southwick funeral home
Forsters Funeral Directors in Southwick, Sunderland, are honoured to be able to help families in the local community. We do this by arranging respectful and dignified funerals, with kindness and compassion. We want to help you celebrate the life of your loved one by arranging a fitting funeral service.
Our warm and welcoming funeral home is easy to reach from the surrounding areas in Sunderland, including Marley Pots and High Southwick. You can use our large chapel of rest to spend time with your loved one before their funeral service. Whenever you visit, we will do everything we can to help you feel at ease.
We understand that planning a funeral can be a daunting task, which is why we are here to offer you our full support. Working closely with you to plan the funeral, we will make all of the funeral arrangements on your behalf, to help alleviate some of the stress and worries.
You can get in touch with our funeral home 24 hours a day, so please call us on 0191 516 0333 as soon as you need our assistance.
What we offer
- Advice and guidance at every step, including registering the death
- Arrangements that are tailored to meet your family's needs
- Local expertise and knowledge
- Cremation or burial at any local crematorium or burial site
- Funeral services of all faiths and cultures
- Viewing of the deceased in the chapel of rest
- Hearses, funeral vehicles and bespoke transport options
- Memorials and tributes
- Prepaid funeral plans
To arrange a funeral for your loved one, please call our funeral home on 0191 516 0333 today.
Funeral Services with distinction
We are proud to be part of Dignity Funerals, a collection of the UKs finest funeral directors, with each and every one committed to setting superior standards.
Many Dignity funeral directors have been part of the local community for generations and it is a privilege to serve those who live beside us. Our rich and lengthy heritage ensures we can deliver our service with local knowledge and unparalleled expertise.
Our services
With two packages available, we will be able to arrange the funeral you have in mind for your loved one.
If you’re looking for a traditional or contemporary funeral with a service, you should consider our Attended Funeral. If you want us to arrange a simple cremation without mourners present, our Unattended Funeral may better suit your needs.
View our Standardised Price List, Additional Options Price List and Crematoria Price List.
The Attended Funeral
Our Attended Funeral includes care of your loved one, a Park Coffin, a service at the place of committal which can be personalised as required for your loved one, followed by a burial or cremation.
- Attended Funeral £2595
- (includes our Park Coffin)£-
- Plus estimated third party costs for cost of cremation and attendance of a celebrant or minister£1220
- Total estimated cost excluding optional extras£3815
Our Local Simple Funeral
Our Simple Funeral offers a complete funeral at a lower cost, without compromising on the quality of the service that is delivered. It includes all of the essentials, including a professional and fully trained Funeral Director to support you every step of the way.
- The Duckworth Funeral£1895
- (includes our Park Coffin)£-
- Plus estimated third party costs for cost of cremation and attendance of a celebrant or minister£1220
- Total estimated cost excluding optional extras£3115
The Unattended Funeral
Our Unattended Funeral will best suit your needs if you want to arrange a simple and straightforward cremation without a service or ceremony, allowing you and your loved one's friends and family to commemorate them in your own way.
- Unattended Funeral £1595
- (includes our Park Coffin)£-
- (Includes cost of cremation)£-
- Total estimated cost excluding optional extras£1595
Memorials
Choose from a variety of options, including headstones and urns to memorial plaques, vases, statues, jewellery and plenty more. With a Memorial, you can create a tribute that especially reflects the life, love and cherished memories of your loved one.
Where to find us
Contact
Speak to our team 24 hours a day on 0191 516 0333
Our Address
6 The Green, Southwick, Sunderland, SR5 2JE
Get DirectionsFuneral home opening times
- Monday0900 - 1700
- Tuesday0900 - 1700
- Wednesday0900 - 1700
- Thursday0900 - 1700
- Friday0900 - 1700
- SaturdayClosed
- SundayClosed
Directions and parking
We are located at the end of the shopping area. There is car parking available on surrounding streets.
0191 516 0333Supporting you along the way
We understand that there is a lot to think about, so if you do need assistance with your loved one's funeral arrangements, our funeral experts will offer you all the support you need.
What to do when someone dies
It’s perfectly normal to be unsure of what you need to do following the death of a loved one. These step-by-step guides will carefully explain everything you need to when someone dies, helping you through each stage of the process.
Planning a funeral
Our guides on planning a funeral will ensure your loved one's send off is a personal and unique celebration of their life. We will explain how our Funeral Directors will help you plan a funeral service and support you at every stage.
The day of the funeral
This guide will explain what happens at a funeral; including the funeral procession, funeral service, committal service and the wake. We will be here to help you through every step of the journey.
Frequently asked questions
When someone dies, the first steps will depend on how and where the person passed away. Our step-by-step guides will walk you through the practical steps. For additional support and personal advice, please get in touch with us.
You don't have to make an appointment at our funeral homes. However, doing so will ensure that someone can be available to cater to your needs. When arranging a funeral, our Funeral Directors are happy to visit you in your own home, if required.
Third party funeral costs are additional charges which we will manage for you and attach to your single invoice. Get in touch with us to confirm costs and plan a funeral to fit your budget.
If you choose to arrange the funeral with us, you will be given the option of a complimentary Funeral Notice. We will set it up for you using the details discussed during the arrangements. All we need is an email address.
Dignity Funeral Plans let you pay for your funeral in advance and at today's price. It's a way of taking control of the unexpected, setting out the arrangements and limiting the costs by paying for the services included in the funeral plan upfront.
We are a member of the National Association of Funeral Directors and as such we abide by The Funeral Director Code. We also have a legal obligation to try and ensure the person who is arranging a funeral has the right to do so, or has permission from those who do.
If you are aware that someone has been appointed as the administrator, you should only arrange the funeral with this person's agreement.
If there is no Will or Letters of Administration, then the responsibility would pass to the next of kin.
A Memorial is a way of creating a lasting memory to help remember a loved one.
Dignity has been established for over 200 years and is one of the UK's leading providers of Funerals and with an 'Excellent' Trustpilot rating (02/24). We are proud to help our customers every year with a diverse range of Memorial products and services to help remember their loved ones.
We offer a wide range of products – from traditional headstones, kerb sets, urns and benches to remembrance trees, plaques and vases. We also offer more personal and modern options such as jewellery, pin badges and photo related memorial products. As well as completely customised items.To organise your Memorial contact us on {{BRANCH_PHONE}}
From 9 September 2024, there will no longer be a doctor's fee in England and Wales when arranging a funeral. This is because from this date, all deaths in England and Wales will be independently viewed, either by a relevant coroner or by a Medical Examiner and the cost will be met by the NHS.
A Medical Examiner is a specifically trained independent senior doctor who will scrutinise all deaths across a local area that do not fall under the coroner's jurisdiction. By providing a greater level of scrutiny over the cause of deaths; it is hoped that the introduction of Medical Examiners will make it less likely that unnatural causes of death will go unnoticed; that the number of deaths unnecessarily referred to the coroner will be reduced and that national data about causes of death will be captured with greater accuracy.
Medical Examiners, or Medical Examiner Officers, will also be available to meet with families, or their representatives, if they wish to discuss the cause of death.
When someone dies, the first steps will depend on how and where the person passed away. Our step-by-step guides will walk you through the practical steps. For additional support and personal advice, please get in touch with us.
You don't have to make an appointment at our funeral homes. However, doing so will ensure that someone can be available to cater to your needs. When arranging a funeral, our Funeral Directors are happy to visit you in your own home, if required.
Third party funeral costs are additional charges which we will manage for you and attach to your single invoice. Get in touch with us to confirm costs and plan a funeral to fit your budget.
If you choose to arrange the funeral with us, you will be given the option of a complimentary Funeral Notice. We will set it up for you using the details discussed during the arrangements. All we need is an email address.
Dignity Funeral Plans let you pay for your funeral in advance and at today's price. It's a way of taking control of the unexpected, setting out the arrangements and limiting the costs by paying for the services included in the funeral plan upfront.
We are a member of the National Association of Funeral Directors and as such we abide by The Funeral Director Code. We also have a legal obligation to try and ensure the person who is arranging a funeral has the right to do so, or has permission from those who do.
If you are aware that someone has been appointed as the administrator, you should only arrange the funeral with this person's agreement.
If there is no Will or Letters of Administration, then the responsibility would pass to the next of kin.
A Memorial is a way of creating a lasting memory to help remember a loved one.
Dignity has been established for over 200 years and is one of the UK's leading providers of Funerals and with an 'Excellent' Trustpilot rating (02/24). We are proud to help our customers every year with a diverse range of Memorial products and services to help remember their loved ones.
We offer a wide range of products – from traditional headstones, kerb sets, urns and benches to remembrance trees, plaques and vases. We also offer more personal and modern options such as jewellery, pin badges and photo related memorial products. As well as completely customised items.To organise your Memorial contact us on {{BRANCH_PHONE}}
From 9 September 2024, there will no longer be a doctor's fee in England and Wales when arranging a funeral. This is because from this date, all deaths in England and Wales will be independently viewed, either by a relevant coroner or by a Medical Examiner and the cost will be met by the NHS.
A Medical Examiner is a specifically trained independent senior doctor who will scrutinise all deaths across a local area that do not fall under the coroner's jurisdiction. By providing a greater level of scrutiny over the cause of deaths; it is hoped that the introduction of Medical Examiners will make it less likely that unnatural causes of death will go unnoticed; that the number of deaths unnecessarily referred to the coroner will be reduced and that national data about causes of death will be captured with greater accuracy.
Medical Examiners, or Medical Examiner Officers, will also be available to meet with families, or their representatives, if they wish to discuss the cause of death.
Our reviews
Jake
24th Jan 2024
The funeral service was great and they really gave my amazing Nanna a great send off, however the service we have received after this has been absolutely disgraceful. Firstly, the Ash Casket they gave us for my lovely Nanna had a nail sticking out the front of it and holes in the bottom where the screws had been put in the wrong place.
They rectified this, but the new box had the incorrect date that my Nanna passed away and also an incorrectly spelled NAME.
How DARE you misspell my Nanna’s first name, the funeral was over a month ago, we as a family have been through enough and shouldn’t have to chase you about errors that shouldn’t have occurred in the first place. I’m absolutely disgusted by this.
*Update* Thanks for the copied and pasted response that bears no relevance to my review. We’ve already made you aware of this on multiple occasions, I just wanted to leave a review to let everyone know that it happened in the first place. Thanks for not charging us as a “gesture of goodwill” for the replacement Ash Casket though, after it was your error that misspelled my Nanna’s first name in the first place, someone who was with you in the chapel of rest for 2 weeks and you can’t even get her first name right, embarrassment.
Sally Harvey (clientrelations@dignityuk.co.uk)
29th Jan 2024
Thank you for taking time to leave us a review. I am sorry to hear you are unhappy with the service provided. If you would like to discuss this further, or escalate your concerns, please contact our Complaint Resolutions Team on 0800 783 7171. They are available Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. You can also send them an email at complaint.resolutions@dignityuk.co.uk. Thank you.
David Lindsay
25th Jan 2023
Absolutely superb. I can't fault any aspect of the service they provided.
From first contact, John was genuine, thoughtful, respectful and dignified, and personified everything that is good about Forsters.
The ladies in the office, Miriam and Alison were just so effortlessly friendly. Every time I spoke with them and contacted them via email, their attentiveness and willingness to ensure everything was perfect was so reassuring and I feel strongly that they should receive some sort of recognition as they really were superb advocates for the business.
The funeral celebrant, Graeme was amazing. Within 5 minutes of first meeting him I felt like I'd known him for years. He has a very natural style of putting people at ease and feeling comfortable to feel able to open-up. Easily one of the hardest jobs to do surely? Yet he did it with respect, diligence and where appropriate even a little humour. The service itself was perfect and Graeme was the driving force behind this. He is a credit to himself and his profession.
John and the pallbearers were incredible and these gentlemen were very attentive when it came to guiding myself and my son on how to carry the coffin. A small gesture you might think yet it went a long way and was very much appreciated. The drivers were also excellent and conducted themselves with grace and dignity.
On behalf of my wife and family, I'd like to pay my respects and offer up my sincere gratitude to Forsters Funeral Directors for providing the very best service at one of the most difficult times of our lives and for supporting us every step of the way.
Thank you.
David Lindsay
Mr David L.
18th Jan 2023
Absolutely superb. I can't fault any aspect of the service they provided.
From first contact, John was genuine, thoughtful, respectful and dignified, and personified everything that is good about Forsters.
The ladies in the office, Miriam and Alison were just so effortlessly friendly. Every time I spoke with them and contacted them via email, their attentiveness and willingness to ensure everything was perfect was so reassuring and I feel strongly that they should receive some sort of recognition as they really were superb advocates for the business.
The funeral celebrant, Graeme was amazing. Within 5 minutes of first meeting him I felt like I'd known him for years. He has a very natural style of putting people at ease and feeling comfortable to feel able to open-up. Easily one of the hardest jobs to do surely? Yet he did it with respect, diligence and where appropriate even a little humour. The service itself was perfect and Graeme was the driving force behind this. He is a credit to himself and his profession.
John and the pallbearers were incredible and these gentlemen were very attentive when it came to guiding myself and my son on how to carry the coffin. A small gesture you might think yet it went a long way and was very much appreciated. The drivers were also excellent and conducted themselves with grace and dignity.
On behalf of my wife and family, I'd like to pay my respects and offer up my sincere gratitude to Forsters Funeral Directors for providing the very best service at one of the most difficult times of our lives and for supporting us every step of the way.
Thank you.
David Lindsay
Forsters Funeral Directors
19th Jan 2023
Thank you for taking the time to send us your online review. Your feedback is always valuable to us.
Ms Janet S.
21st Oct 2022
From contacting Forsters Funeral Directors,from the first meeting they were great to deal with, they sorted out everything for me.They delivered a first class service to my mum on the day.
Forsters Funeral Directors
24th Oct 2022
We know how special each person is and aim to convey this in all aspects of our work from the arrangements to the day of the service. I am happy that we provided a professional service to you.
Miss Kim G.
28th Apr 2022
I recently used the service of Forsters funeral directors for my dad’s funeral. Alison guided us through the whole process with kindness, compassion and care. Forsters and especially Alison took all of the worry and stress out of planning my dad’s funeral. She went above and beyond to make sure we had everything in place so it was perfect on the day. Many thanks to the whole team at Forsters funeral directors and especially Alison, from myself and my family.
Forsters Funeral Directors
29th Apr 2022
We are grateful of you using our services to provide something special for your loved one. It is always good to hear that individual members of our team have provided a service to you to the best of their ability.
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