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What are Funeral Plans?

What are Funeral Plans?

With a Funeral Plan, you can plan all the funeral arrangements in advance, giving your loved ones the reassurance that all the key decisions have been made and the funds are in place. By making decisions now, you can make things easier for everyone in the future.

There are a number of reasons why you may choose to put plans in place. A Funeral Plan enables you to personalise a funeral to the last detail, from the music to the dress code. This can therefore save loved ones having to make these decisions at a difficult time.

Funeral Plans also make good financial sense. The graph below shows just how much the cost of funerals in the UK has risen in the past - and are predicted to rise in the future. By acting now, you can secure the costs at today's prices, with no more to pay for the items in the Plan regardless of how costs rise in the future.

Graph showing rising costs of Funerals in last 10 years

Source: Mintel Reports 2002 & 2007
* Cost projection based on average annual increase from 1997-2007.

Mrs Brown, Staines

Planning ahead means I can relax as things will be easier for the people I care about. Mrs. Brown, Staines

Photographs have been posed by models to protect customer identities

A Valuable Guarantee

We guarantee that the services included in our Funeral Plans are fully covered and there will be no more to pay for them when the time comes.

The Co-operative Funeralcare Guarantee

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