Trade Body Association

SAIF
Type of funeral home
Independent
Direct cremation (from) £1295
Attended funeral, FD only (from) £1760
Professional fee £450
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Debbie Collins Independent Funeral Director is a family-run practice based at Folly Farm on Kingsclere Road, around ten minutes from Basingstoke town centre and close to North Hampshire Hospital and St Michael's Hospice. Now in its 26th year, the business is led personally by Debbie Collins, who is involved in every funeral the firm arranges and brings more than 26 years of hands-on funeral directing experience to each family she serves.

The company is a member of the Society of Allied Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF), which monitors facilities and service standards, and follows a published Code of Practice available on request. Every attended funeral includes the funeral director and four uniformed pall bearers, and families can arrange a funeral by phone, email, FaceTime or a home visit, with the firm also offering woodland funerals and direct cremation across multiple locations.

The wheelchair-accessible premises have ample free parking, serving Basingstoke, Tadley, Overton, Whitchurch, Kingsclere, Oakley, Bramley, Sherborne St John, Newbury and surrounding villages, with calls answered personally 24 hours a day and transparent, itemised cost breakdowns provided at the time of arrangement.

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