Why a Funeral Plan?

And that’s important. Nobody wants their family to face money worries in future. A funeral plan lets you pre-pay for the funeral director’s services included in your plan. Even if prices rise in the future, you’ll have the reassurance of knowing there’ll be nothing more to pay for your funeral director’s services – guaranteed!

A plan isn’t just an easy way to counter rising prices*, it’s also a chance to do something thoughtful for your family, to save them extra worry at an already difficult time. With a funeral plan in place, you can help reduce your family’s money worries or save them from having to make stressful decisions about funeral arrangements in the future. Flexible payment options by lump sum or monthly instalments are available.

* - Sunlife Cost of Dying Report 2023

The funeral plans are provided by Golden Charter. You can personalise your plan and choose the send-off you want. When the time comes, the funeral will be taken care of by us at M. K. Ginder & Sons. It means you and your family can be certain of a truly personal service when it matters most.

With something as important as your funeral, it’s important to know you and your family are in the best of hands. Established in 1983, our staff at M. K. Ginder & Sons provide personal help and local knowledge earned through many years’ experience of the funeral industry. You may already know about us due to a bereavement, from a personal recommendation or simply through our professional reputation within the local community. Our 7 offices all serve families across the Home Counties, Watford and the surrounding areas. As such, we are proud to be the largest family-run independent funeral directors in South-west Hertfordshire.

At M K Ginder & Sons we work in partnership with Golden Charter to provide you with a simple way to plan ahead. As one of the UK’s largest funeral plan providers*, Golden Charter has helped almost 900,000 people make funeral provisions**, so we’re completely confident in offering their plans to you. It means your plan offers the best of both worlds – the personal service and care of a trusted, local funeral director and the reassurance of a leading plan provider.

* - Based on a Golden Charter analysis and independent research of the funeral plan market size as at January 2023

** - Correct at March 2023