Your wishes, written down
Recording your wishes — or helping someone you love record theirs — is one of the kindest things you can leave behind.
Free. A conversation where we write down what you’d want — nothing paid, nothing locked in.
Secure our professional services at today’s prices, with funds for the variable costs set aside in a regulated funeral bond.
See how pre-paid worksSome plan quietly for themselves. Others plan alongside a parent or partner. However you arrive, it begins with the same gentle conversation.
Why families plan ahead
In our experience, planning ahead is less about paperwork and more about care — a quiet gift to the people who’ll one day gather for you.
Your wishes are known
When your preferences are written down — cremation or burial, the kind of farewell, the music, the place — the people you love aren’t left to guess at the hardest possible time. They can simply honour what you wanted.
Decided in daylight
Choices made calmly today spare rushed ones later. The venue, the music, the shape of the day — settled while there’s time to think, not in the fog of the first days.
The load lifts
Grief is enough to carry on its own. When the decisions are already made, your family’s only task is to be together.
Recording your wishes
A no-cost arrangement where we record your wishes.
A relaxed conversation — over the phone, at our place, or at your own kitchen table — where we listen and write down what matters to you: cremation or burial, the shape of the farewell, the venue, the music, the personal touches. You’ll receive a written copy to keep and share, and you can change it at any time. Nothing is paid, and nothing is locked in.
What you can start thinking about
There’s no form to fill in and no order to follow. These are simply the threads most families like to think about first — explore any of them, or none, before we talk.
The shape of the farewell
From an unattended cremation to a fully attended service — Simple, Celebrated or Concierge — every Candour farewell can be a cremation, a burial, or even a farewell on the open water.
Where it’s held
A clifftop sailing club, a vineyard estate, a chapel close to home. Enter your postcode and see the places we love near you.
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The personal touches
Locally grown flowers, music that sounds like you, visual tributes, keepsakes — the small details that make a day unmistakably yours.
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What your family keeps
The order of service, a memorial book, the photographs and music from the day — the things people hold on to, and the quieter question of how you’d like to be remembered.
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