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Aura’s simple, low cost direct cremation services allow you to arrange no-fuss funeral in Newbury.
A stone's throw away from the city of Reading and its famous production of biscuits, bulbs and beers is West Berkshire Crematorium, a stunning location where you can plan for your future with the help of the UK's top-rated prepaid direct cremation plan provider. Aura is a family-run company that provides the UK’s top-rated direct cremation services, whether they’re needed now or in the future. With our cremations, there are no hearses or pallbearers; instead we offer a simple, affordable direct cremation with an optional low-cost service at West Berkshire Crematorium.
Aura's attended and unattended prepaid direct cremation services are available across all of West Berkshire, including Thatcham, Newbury, Reading, Hermitage, Tadley, Baughurst, Bradfield, Chievely and beyond.
Aura's direct cremation services are available to families across all of Berkshire, including Bracknell, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Maidenhead, Reading, Sandhurst, Sandhurst, Slough, Soham, Thatcham, Windsor, Windsor, Wokingham and Wokingham.
As a family-run company, it's exactly what we'd want for members of our own family. We deliver on the promises we make to our customers, whether it's in the service that we provide to you or the practices in which we care for your loved one behind the scenes. You can read more about our processes. Don't just take our word for it, see how we compare to the others.
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To put it simply, it is a kind of funeral that would allow you to organise a more personal alternative for your loved one to a traditional service. If they wouldn't have liked things like a hearse or pallbearers, this option may work best for them, as they are not normally included. A Direct Cremation usually occurs without any guests present, but if you would like to arrange for people to be there, we can help with that. Otherwise, we would collect your loved one and bring them to the crematorium, and then, after the ceremony, we can personally deliver their ashes back to you, or we can scatter them on your behalf at the crematorium's garden of remembrance, as you prefer.
If you'd like to give us a call, we can have a chat about your options, and give you some specific pricing information. Of course, we understand that needing to plan a funeral at short notice can place sudden financial strain on to any family. We hope that it makes this time just a little bit easier to know that this type of service is normally meaningfully less expensive than other types of funeral. We can provide one in Newbury starting at £1,095, and, depending on what you think is best, we could provide a funeral for less than half of the cost of the average funeral in the UK.
We would be only too happy to help you arrange something that truly reflects your wishes and the spirit of your loved one. There are plenty of different ways in which we can achieve this: some people, for instance, like to add a final viewing of their loved one to proceedings, in the chapel of rest. Others like to choose a song dear to their loved one to guide them into the crematorium before the beginning of the ceremony. If you would like to discuss any ideas that you might have about how to personalise things, we would be very pleased to help you over the phone.
Each funeral that we arrange is special and personal, and that means that the time we need to get things organised could vary. After we have talked to you on the phone about what you would like, we can start to get things sorted, and give you a more specific estimate of how long things might take, but until then, we wouldn't want to mislead you or falsely set your expectations. As a rough guide, we could arrange one of our bespoke funeral in Newbury for you within a fortnight, but other funerals will take longer to plan. If you would ever like an update at any point within the process, you have only to call us; we will also do our best to regularly keep you informed of our progress.
To sum it up simply, that is exactly why we are here. Worrying about managing to plan a funeral, especially when we maybe don't have any prior experience of it, or if it was unexpected, is a common concern that we see often. But we are here to help and will not leave you to handle things without any support. Our dedicated team of Angels is ready to take the hassle of planning out of your hands, giving you peace of mind.