Trade Body Association

SAIF
Type of funeral home
Independent
Direct cremation (from) £1450
Attended funeral, FD only (from) £1951
Professional fee £600
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Alan Postlethwaite Funerals is a genuinely family-run funeral director based in Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria, now in its third generation of stewardship. The business traces its roots to George Postlethwaite, a local carpenter whose handmade arranging-room table still stands in the branch today, a quiet symbol of the personal, hands-on care the family has offered the South Lakes community for decades. That legacy was carried forward by his son Geoff, and continues today under Alan and his wife Helen.

The firm offers a full spectrum of funeral options, from simple and traditional cremations to burials, green funerals, and unattended direct cremations, alongside pre-paid funeral plans. Every arrangement is handled with the dignity and care the family has been known for since George's day, and the team takes care of the full range of documentation, venue coordination, floral tributes and charitable donation administration on behalf of grieving families.

Serving Grange-Over-Sands, Kendal, Milnthorpe, Levens, Windermere, Coniston, Broughton-in-Furness, Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness, Alan Postlethwaite Funerals remains one of the few remaining independent funeral directors serving the wider South Lakes region, with deep local knowledge and long-standing community ties that larger corporate operators simply cannot match.

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