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Two Together: Save £100!
Save £100 when you purchase two funeral plans together. Call us for more details.
Compare Golden Leaves’ Direct Cremation Funeral Plans with Aura. Understand the key figures, from customer ratings to plan costs, and answer all your Golden Leaves questions.
With all-inclusive pricing and no hidden costs, Aura offers you great value and transparency. See why others have chosen Aura for their funeral plan:
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| Starting Price | £1,695 | £1,499 |
| Trustpilot | 4.9/5 stars | 4.9/5 stars |
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| Free Cancellation Anytime | | ✘ |
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Aura is family-run, which means you can trust us to treat you with genuine care and respect. We treat every person seeking our funeral plans the way we’d treat our own loved ones, which brings a personal touch and genuine care.
Aura scores 5/5 for transparency, trust, and value with Fairer Finance. We have also earned an outstanding 4.9/5 stars on Trustpilot from our customers. Golden Leaves also have 4.9/5 on Trustpilot, but their Fairer Finance rating is 3/5.
We want to help you react to life’s changes, not lock you in. With Aura, cancel your plan any time, for any reason, and still receive a full refund. Golden Leaves charges a fee of £299 to cancel after your 30-day cooling-off period.
Aura keeps your funeral costs down by not charging on monthly payments over 12–24 months. With Golden Leaves, though, after 24 months, your monthly instalments will be more expensive through additional admin charges.
Aura’s industry-leading Angel team offers a blend of compassion and knowledge in their hands-on funeral arranging support. When you’re no longer here, they’ll take care of your funeral, and your family, with kindness when it’s needed most.
Aura’s all-inclusive funeral plans start at £1,695. It fully covers your funeral costs, so your family won’t pay a penny more. Golden Leaves’ plans start at £1,499, but are not all-inclusive, which could leave your family paying more.
Your funeral plan provider should deliver on trust, flexibility, and compassionate care. Here’s what to consider when comparing Aura to Golden Leaves:
Aura is a family-run, family-sized provider, which means that we’ll care for you and your family with a compassion unmatched by larger providers.
Aura is highly rated by customers (4.9/5 stars on Trustpilot) and experts alike (5/5 with Fairer Finance). Golden Leaves also has 4.9 stars on Trustpilot, but only 3/5 with Fairer Finance.
Our Aura Angel team can lend emotional, logistical, and administrative support to your family when the time comes. They are there to give peace of mind when it’s needed most.
We make sure that you’ll always be able to afford your monthly instalments, by not charging extra fees. Golden Leaves will charge you additional fees for payment plans over 24 months.
Our all-inclusive funeral plans start £1,695; this price covers everything, which spares your family from extra costs when the time comes. Plans, like Golden Leaves’, which don’t include every cost relating to your funeral, could leave your family out of pocket.
A good funeral plan will give you and your family peace of mind through the trust and compassion with which it is delivered.
Aura’s family spirit, transparent pricing, and flexible plans make us a compassionate alternative to options like Golden Leaves. Our top ratings for transparency and service, can truly set your mind at ease.
Join the other families across Great Britain who’ve put their trust in us to deliver hassle-free and caring funeral planning.
Paul Jameson founded Aura in 2017 with one thing in mind: to provide British families with simple, kind, and compassionate end-of-life planning support. That’s why we treat each and every person we speak to with the same care and respect as we’d want for our own families.
With Aura, you’re more than just a plan number: you’re in the hands of people who genuinely care.
Golden Leaves offers four different burial or cremation funeral plans, each with different things included depending on the option taken. They are the Copper Plan; Copper Plus Plan; Silver Plan; and Gold Plan. Starting prices range from £1,499 to £4,135. As a minimum for each plan, the following elements are included:
Aura’s funeral plans, by comparison, are all-inclusive, and don’t have extra charges depending on when or where in Great Britain you die.
The starting price of a Golden Leaves funeral plan ranges from £1,499 to £4,135. Golden Leaves is a long-established provider of funeral plans which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and they have an independently audited and managed trust. The funds for funeral plans purchased up front, or over one year, are held within this trust, and are given protection by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). As is the same with Aura, this means that, should Golden Leaves go out of business before delivering on your plan, they have an obligation to refund you what you have paid, or transfer your plan to another provider. You may also be eligible for compensation in the event that they are unable to deliver the service you’ve paid for.
If, however, you purchase your Golden Leaves plan via fixed monthly payments over two years or longer (i.e., on credit), the funds are not protected by the Golden Leaves trust. Instead, they are held by an “FCA authorised life assurance company”.
All of Aura’s funeral plan customers, whether they have paid up front or are paying over 12–24 months, have the necessary funds paid into its independently managed, FSCS protected trust.
Yes, they are. Both Golden Leaves and Aura are fully regulated by and authorised by the FCA. It’s one key way in which you can tell whether funeral plans are safe.
Golden Leaves, like Aura, is highly rated by customers, with both companies holding 4.9/5 stars on Trustpilot. However, with expert reviewer site, Fairer Finance, Aura has earned 5/5, where Golden Leaves only has 3/5.
Golden Leaves is part of the Rowland Brothers Group. The company that would grow into Golden Leaves was founded back in 1875 by the Rowland family in Croydon.
Aura, on the other hand, is an independent, family-run business. We were founded by Paul Jameson following a terminal diagnosis, and Aura is run today by Paul, his son David and close family friend, Ben.
You can cancel a Golden Leaves funeral plan, but, if doing so after your 30-day cooling-off period, then it will cost you £299 to do so. Conversely, with an Aura funeral plan, there is no cancellation fee regardless of when you decide to cancel.
If you have any questions, would like a brochure or simply would like a chat through our services, our award-winning team is here to help.
Unlike other providers, we won’t hassle you with constant calls. We’ll simply ensure you have the information you need and leave you to come to a decision in your own time. When you’re ready for us, our team will be ready to help.