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Losing someone is hard. We’re here to make things easier and simpler, so you can focus on your family at this difficult time. If you need a kind, flexible Funeral Director in Kensington, please get in touch.
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See Why We Are Trusted By Hundreds of Local Families

At In Memory Of Life, families trust us because we put care, compassion, and attention to detail at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to have supported hundreds of local families, each with their own unique wishes, and we are committed to treating every person as if they were part of our own family. From the first phone call to the day of the funeral, our team is here to listen, guide, and go the extra mile. Our reputation is built on honesty, reliability, and the comfort of knowing you are in safe hands.

In Memory Of Life Funeral Directors in Kensington

At In Memory Of Life, we are proud to care for families in Kensington with compassion, dignity, and local expertise. As a family-run funeral directors, we understand how important it is to have trusted support close to home when arranging a funeral. Our team knows the local area well and can provide clear guidance on all local services. We can advise on nearby crematoriums and cemeteries, recommend trusted florists for floral tributes, connect you with experienced celebrants, and suggest suitable wake venues. By drawing on our local knowledge and connections, we ensure every detail is thoughtfully arranged and personal to your wishes. Above all, we are here to ease the practicalities, offering reassurance and support so you can focus on remembering your loved one.

Providing Cremations & Burials Across Kensington & Surrounding Areas

We serve Kensington and the surrounding areas, offering both cremation and burial funerals. Our team will provide you with local guidance and recommendations to ensure every detail is just right on the day
Cremation Funeral

from £2,595

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Burial Funeral

from £2,595

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If You Want To Keep Things Traditional...

For many people, funeral traditions and norms are comforting at a time of grief. If you would prefer to keep things traditional, you can expect our team be dressed in our  finest funeral suits, with a traditional top hat and a black funeral hearse. There are many different ways to personalise the funeral and reflect your loved one

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If You Want To Go For Something Different...

We take great pride in personalising every funeral and working with you to find ways to reflect their personality. This may be an alternative venue or perhaps different transportation such as the bicycle hearse. You might also go for more subtle options such as the colour of the coffin or our team’s ties on the day. Whatever your decision, we will work with you to make it possible on the day.

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Local Crematorium & Cemeteries

We work closely with all local crematoriums and cemeteries, offering clear advice on the options available and guiding you through every step. Our team will liaise directly with the venue on your behalf, ensuring all arrangements are in place and handled smoothly. This allows you to focus on family while we take care of the details.

Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London, W10 4RA

Price range: £2,000 through £22,300

Gunnersbury Cemetery

Gunnersbury Cemetery, 143 Gunnersbury Ave, London W3 8LE

Price range: £2,239 through £16,296

Hanwell Cemetery

Hanwell Cemetery, Uxbridge Rd, London W7 3PP

Price range: £2,239 through £16,296

Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery, Fulham Rd, London, SW10 9UG

Price range: £1,805 through £18,370

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Burial

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Typical Cost of A Cremation Funeral Near Kensington

Crematorium Fees
Service Fees
The length of the service and the capacity of the venue will vary with each crematorium. You do not have to go to your nearest and we can help you choose the right location across Greater London, including options to hold the service at an alternative venue
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Crematorium Fees
Each Crematorium will also charge a fee for the cremation to take place. You can view all of the different options and prices below
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Our Services Included

Our experienced team will compassionately care for your loved one including:

  • Collection from their current resting place in our private ambulance
  • Respectful care and preparation for the funeral in our mortuary facilities
  • Dressing including a courier to collect clothes from your home
  • Viewing your loved one within our private chapel of rest if requested
  • Care for their personal effects following your instructions

We are here to make the funeral arrangement as stress-free and simple for you as possible. We will help you with:

  • Advice and guidance from the first call including at evenings & weekends
  • Liaison with all third parties including crematoria, cemeteries & doctors
  • Completion of all paperwork and administrative processes for the funeral
  • Coordination of the funeral ceremony, flowers, music requests, order of service, visual tributes and any thing else that you may request
The Morpeth
A simple yet high quality wood effect coffin, polished to a high standard and fitted with a personalised name plate
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Funeral Conductor
Your Funeral Conductor is our senior person in charge to ensure everything runs smoothly on the day. They will greet you directly at the crematorium.
Traditional Funeral Hearse
A traditional black hearse, meeting you directly at the crematorium for the funeral service at this location only
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Funeral Flowers
We can help you to choose beautiful flowers to adorn your loved one’s coffin and hearse. All of our flower arrangements are soruced and prepared by our local florist
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Funeral Officiant
Please let us know if you would like help finding a suitable officiant to lead the service. This could be a non religious officiant, known as a celebrant, or a religious leader of your choosing
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Order of Service Booklets
We can help you to prepare and design order of service booklets to be printed for the funeral. You can view our designs below and would just need to send us your photos and contentt
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Total
From £2,595
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Burial Funeral

Cemetery Fees
Grave Purchase Fees
If you do not already own a grave with space for a new burial, you will need to purchase the deeds to the plot of land. There are typically different prices for residents and non residents in each area however we can guide you through this process. You can view options and prices below
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Grave Preparation Fees
On the day of the funeral, the cemetery team will need to dig and prepare the grave space ready for the burial. There is a charge from the cemetery for this and will vary wit each location. You can view options and prices below
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Our Services Included

Our experienced team will compassionately care for your loved one including:

  • Collection from their current resting place in our private ambulance
  • Respectful care and preparation for the funeral in our mortuary facilities
  • Dressing including a courier to collect clothes from your home
  • Viewing your loved one within our private chapel of rest if requested
  • Care for their personal effects following your instructions

We are here to make the funeral arrangement as stress-free and simple for you as possible. We will help you with:

  • Advice and guidance from the first call including at evenings & weekends
  • Liaison with all third parties including crematoria, cemeteries & doctors
  • Completion of all paperwork and administrative processes for the funeral
  • Coordination of the funeral ceremony, flowers, music requests, order of service, visual tributes and any thing else that you may request
The Morpeth
A simple yet high quality wood effect coffin, polished to a high standard and fitted with a personalised name plate
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Funeral Conductor
Your Funeral Conductor is our senior person in charge to ensure everything runs smoothly on the day. They will greet you directly at the crematorium.
Traditional Funeral Hearse
A traditional black hearse, meeting you directly at the crematorium for the funeral service at this location only
View All Options
Example Optional Extras
Funeral Flowers
We can help you to choose beautiful flowers to adorn your loved one’s coffin and hearse. All of our flower arrangements are soruced and prepared by our local florist
View All Options
Funeral Officiant
Please let us know if you would like help finding a suitable officiant to lead the service. This could be a non religious officiant, known as a celebrant, or a religious leader of your choosing
View All Options
Order of Service Booklets
We can help you to prepare and design order of service booklets to be printed for the funeral. You can view our designs below and would just need to send us your photos and contentt
View All Options
Total
From £2,595
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Simple Cremation

Crematorium Fees
A Simple Cremation
A simple cremation, also known as a direct cremation, means that there would be no funeral service on the day. Instead, our team will take your loved one directly to the crematorium and accompany them into the chapel, typically early in the morning.
Crematorium Fees
Our fixed price includes the fee from the crematorium for the cremation to take place
Our Services Included

Our experienced team will compassionately care for your loved one including:

  • Collection from their current resting place in our private ambulance
  • Respectful care and preparation for the funeral in our mortuary facilities
  • Washing and preparation for cremation
  • Care for their personal effects following your instructions

We are here to make the funeral arrangement as stress-free and simple for you as possible. We will help you with:

  • Advice and guidance from the first call including at evenings & weekends
  • Liaison with all third parties including crematoria, cemeteries & doctors
  • Completion of all paperwork and administrative processes for the funeral
  • Coordination of the return of your loved one’s ashes if you choose this option
The Morpeth
A simple yet high quality wood effect coffin, polished to a high standard and fitted with a personalised name plate
On the day of the cremation, your loved one will be transferred to the crematorium in our specialist vehicle and accompanies by our team into the crematorium chapel
Example Optional Extras
Private Chapel of Rest
Our simple cremation does not include a chapel of rest viewing with your loved one. It is possible to add this as an optional extra item to your quote and to spend up to 2 hours in our private chapel on a day of your choosing
Return Of The Ashes
Your loved one’s ashes will be available for you to collect from the crematorium around 2 days following the funeral date. If requested, we can collect on you behalf and hand deliver these back to you
Total
From £1,899

Worried about how to cover the funeral cost?

You’re not alone and we’re here to help. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) offers a Funeral Expenses Payment to help cover essential costs such as burial or cremation fees, travel expenses, and up to £1,000 for other funeral expenses like flowers or a coffin. You must be the person responsible for paying for the funeral, and you must be eligible for benefits or working tax credits to apply. Our team can help you check your eligibility quickly and easily

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A Funeral Arrangement Team Who Care

As an independent and family run funeral business, we treat each of our families as if you are our own. We are kind, compassionate and aim to make the process simpler for you so that you can focus on what is important.

Harriet Gilbert

Funeral Arranger

Michelle Pike

Funeral Arranger

Kate Mercer

Funeral Arranger

Megan Pownall

Funeral Arranger

Matt Stafford

Funeral Arranger

Tali Stafford

Funeral Arranger

Laya Suraparaju

Funeral Arranger

Holly Knaggs

Funeral Arranger

Emma Fowler

Funeral Arranger

Funeral Arrangement Team

Supporting Local Families, Just Like You

I shopped around before deciding to use In Memory of Life. Unfortunately, over recent years I’ve had to deal with laying to rest another loved one. I used a well known high street funeral company back then. In comparison, ‘In Memory of Life’ is second to none.

Nick and Tali, both proprietors and siblings were magnificent. Every detail of my late husband’s funeral was handled with the utmost of care and they and their staff (and the pall bearers) fulfilled my wishes with sensitivity, respect and professionalism. Through mainly WhatsApp texts, which may seem strange at first, they gave me regular check ins. If I wasn’t clear on anything they would arrange to call me instead. On reflection, I had more contact with Nick and Tali who (Tali) increasingly took the reins, than what I ever had with the other well known high street funeral directors. So the WhatsApp texts turned out to be a more easier and quicker way to communicate my needs to them and get resolutions to my questions. Tali’s check ins from time to time, just to see how I was baring up and to verify with me that I was ‘happy’ that every detail was to my satisfaction, brought me untold comfort during the hardest time of my life. I also have to give a warm thank you to Mark, the funeral conductor on the day. He rang me the day before, explaining what was going to happen on the day of my husband’s funeral and wanted to check if I had any questions for him. He invited me to walk in front of the hearse as a mark of respect to my late husband for a short distance as I left my home with my beloved. Mark also offered his arm to me as we walked into the chapel behind my husband. The attentiveness and attention to detail rippled throughout the whole company. Thank you to each and every one of you, including Maria at the funeral parlour. With much gratitude. Beverley x

Bev

I’d like to say massive thank you to all .. My sisters day was absolutely breathtaking .. the horse and cart was beautiful and the kindness of the riders ..what amazing gentlemen they are. A special thank … u to Harriet who kept me calm and helped me every step of the way .. and Dean our conductor who we couldn’t of done the day without him. ..even the patience when running over time they didn’t mind.

We are forever grateful for your service you gave us everything and more of what we asked for… I’ve never spoken to such kind people. Thank you thank you and thank you. Memory of life .. your the best

Sheina

I Can only say that I have received a wonderful support and service from In Memory Of Life throughout the whole process of organising my grandmothers funeral; they have been amazing every step of the way, and it was comforting knowing that we were in safe hands during our loss. …

I can wholeheartedly recommend them to support any one in organising their loved ones farewell. With thanks, Catalina.

Catalina

The whole Team at In Memory Of Life were fantastic from my first contact with them. Harriet and Megan were extremely helpful when disgussing arrangements, going through the various options available, and helping me make the right decisions. and Brian made sure all went smoothly on the day, ensuring my Partner got the send off she deserved at a very reasonable price.

Graham Cook

I contacted In Memory of Life after losing my son, from first point of contact speaking to Megan then progressing to the funeral with the amazing help from Kate my family and I were supported and listened to. With Kate’s help we had the type of funeral that celebrated my son and his short life.

Ann Jack

Professional and Caring The whole team at In Memory Of Life were outstanding in helping us with the arrangement of my sister’s funeral. Compassion, professionalism, kindness and care was shown throughout by Kate who helped with the planning. …

Kept me updated with everything, arranged everything l asked for, everything was perfect and all the staff were very helpful. Our funeral conductor and his team on the day were amazing. Definitely recommend to others…whole ceremony was perfect! Thank you all so much.

Kadi

From the very beginning Tali and Harriet were amazing. They litrally took the stress and strain away from me. Ive never planned a funeral before and was dreading it. I would 1000000 % recommend “in memory of life” …

They were always in communication from the smallest of information to the biggest. No pressure was ever put on me. They went at my pace. On the day Alex was absolutely great, again leading the way with information and what to do..Thanks to everyone who made the day smooth sailing and stress free. I will always recommend you guys for pure professionalism, deadecation,care,time,and compassion. Thanks from Kerry Leigh Liam Jacob x

Kerry

With passing of my mum I was in a mess , after getting in touch with in memory of life and May and her team everything was plane sailing . Excellent communication and guidance from start to finish and a follow up after to see how was . I wouldn’t hesitate to strongly recommend In memory of life .

Vince

The professionalism, and respect afforded my family, by “In Loving Memory” was matched by the care, and consideration of the service they provide. We were taken through each stage of arrangements with personal attention, and sensitivity.

Ashton Taylor

My husband Mark Chelvan-Stanmore unexpectedly died on 13 March 2024. Our family is still in shock at his passing. Mark is/was loved so much. Meghan, Harriet and their In Memory of Life team surrounded us in a circle of support … and guidance ensuring every step in preparation for Mark’s funeral on 2 April was actioned with the highest standards of care and kindness – with Harriet being on hand even through the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.

Steve on the day of the cremation service guided the practicalities, drawing together the In Memory of Life service to perfection. Thank you from all our family, Dr S Chelvan, King’s Cross, Islington 6 April 2024

Dr Chelvan

In memory of life have again exceeded expectations for the funeral of my Grandad.Nothing is ever too much trouble for these lovely young women and men, they go above and beyond to make sure the funeral of your loved ones is so special. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a funeral directors to organise a loved one’s funeral they really are very good

Louisa

We are forever grateful for your service you gave us everything and more of what we asked for… I’ve never spoken to such kind people. Thank you thank you and thank you. Memory of life .. your the best. …

From day one the staff were very professional, sympathetic and helpful. I was assigned Kate, in the early stage of planning my mother’s funeral, which helped to establish a relationship with one person. Kate was patient, understanding and her tone was that of compassion and empathy throughout.

The advice and guidance in all things ‘planning a funeral’ was second to none. I will 100% recommend In Memory of Life to anyone going through this process. A personal thank you to John, who was very accommodating and talked us through the day. THANK YOU IN MEMORY OF LIFE FUNERAL SERVICES!

Wendy Stewart

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, absolutely you can spend time with your loved one before the funeral. We understand how important it is for families to have this opportunity for closure and private viewings can be arranged at one our chapel of rests or another location of your choosing, such as your Church or even your home. Our team will work closely with you to ensure that this experience is private, comfortable, and respectful so that you can say your final goodbye before. the funeral. Please let us know your wishes, and we will do everything we can to accommodate them.

No, we never request a deposit or any upfront payment before the funeral takes place. We understand the financial and emotional pressures families face during this time and aim to ease those burden by providing you with plenty of time to make your choices and secure the source of the funds. Our services are designed to provide flexibility, and we will clearly outline all costs so you can plan with confidence and clarity.

Yes, at In Memory of Life, we offer flexible payment plans to help make funeral arrangements more manageable. We understand the financial challenges that can arise during this time and strive to provide options that suit your needs.

We do not require a deposit which will provide you with the time to investigate various sources of funding including a grant from the department of work and pensions. We also partner with Funeral Safe who can provide you with Funeral Finance to split the cost of the funeral into monthly instalments to be paid over a long period of time. Our team will work closely with you to find an option that aligns with your circumstances, ensuring you can focus on honoring your loved one without added financial stress.

Yes we accept and will even help to support you through an application for a government DWP funeral grant. We understand how critical this funding can be for people struggling to meet the cost of the funeral and always try to be as flexible as possible, including no requirements for a deposit or upfront payments.

You can read more about the DWP funeral grant and to find out if you are eligible on the government website here https://www.gov.uk/funeral-payments

At In Memory of Life, we offer a variety of eco-friendly funeral options for those who wish to minimize their environmental impact. These include biodegradable coffins, natural burial grounds, and environmentally conscious modes of transport including a bicycle hearse. We also provide guidance on reducing waste and carbon emissions throughout the funeral process. Our team is dedicated to helping you create a meaningful farewell that aligns with your values and commitment to sustainability.

The cost of a funeral depends on the services and arrangements you choose. At In Memory of Life, we provide a range of options to suit different preferences and budgets, from simple services to more elaborate ceremonies. We are committed to transparency and will provide a detailed breakdown of costs upfront, with no hidden fees. Our team is here to help you create a meaningful farewell that meets your needs and respects your financial situation. You can view all of the options and build your own quote below

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Yes, at In Memory of Life, you can plan ahead and pay for your funeral in advance. Pre-planning allows you to make thoughtful decisions about your arrangements, relieve financial burdens for your family, and lock in current pricing for services. Our team will work with you to create a personalized plan that reflects your wishes, and we offer flexible payment options to suit your budget. Contact us to learn more about how pre-planning can bring peace of mind.

All paperwork and administrative processes taken care of

When a person dies, the paperwork, admin and everything you need to do can feel overwhelming. We are here to take some of the pressure off and to try and make everything as simple as possible. Our support includes:

  • Booking with Crematorium, Cemetery or Burial Ground - We will liaise with your chosen venue to book the funeral. This may also include support hold a funeral ceremony at an alternative location.
  • Liaison with Doctors - If required will liaise with doctors on your behalf for completion of medical cremation certificates known as Cremation Form 4 and Cremation Form 5
  • Funeral Paperwork - Depending on your choice of funeral, we will also advise and help you to complete the necessary paperwork, such as the cremation application or burial application forms.
  • Fulfilling Your Funeral Choices - Using our online funeral planning platform, you will be in control to make all of the decisions around the funeral together with your chosen officiant. Once you have confirmed your choices with us, we will liaise with all third parties as required to ensure that everything is in place for the day. This includes everything from a bespoke selection of coffin or hearse, to your choice of flowers or music for the day.