Choice Essentials Plan

Funeral Directors Services

These are the essential services carried out by the Funeral Director. These services include the following:

A professional and caring funeral

  • Assisting with legal and administrative arrangements
  • Help with arranging the funeral
  • An online memorial tribute web page, including the ability to enable charitable donations
  • Collecting the Covered Individual from their place of death (or other location) within a 25-mile radius of the Nominated Funeral Director
  • Care and preparation of the Covered Individual before the funeral in professional facilities
  • Use of the Nominated Funeral Director’s Chapel of Rest, or private Rest Room in order to spend time with the Covered Individual during the Nominated Funeral Director’s opening hours
  • An oak-effect foil veneered coffin
  • A hearse to convey the Covered Individual to the place of service, crematorium or cemetery (within 25-miles of the Nominated Funeral Director)
  • Funeral Director and up to four pall bearers to accompany and attend the service

Choice Plus

Funeral Directors Services and Extras

By selecting Choice Plus, you secure the following additional Funeral Director Services:

  • Professional embalming of the Covered Individual
  • A chauffeured limousine for up to six passengers

Also included with all plans

We offer support, before and after the funeral

  • You will have access to a helpline offering practical support to you and your family on matters such as probate, wills, legal issues and bereavement support. This is operated by a third party

Extra Value for Money

  • £100 off the cost of a headstone or memorial purchased through us, or a complimentary Scatter Tube

What’s excluded?

  • Third Party Fees
    Your funeral cannot take place without payment being made for Third Party Fees. These variable external costs may include doctors, ministers/celebrants, and cremation or burial fees
  • Additional Products & Services
    These can include flowers, the wake, obituaries/press notices, orders of service, special transport and other individual arrangements that you may have in mind. These costs are not included in our Funeral Plan, so you may want to make Voluntary Contributions towards these variable costs

You can make Voluntary Contributions towards these costs

Depending upon the amount of Voluntary Contributions you make, this amount may or may not be sufficient to pay for Third Party Fees and Additional Products & Services. Additional costs may need to be paid for when the Funeral Plan is Redeemed. Prices will be charged at the prevailing rate at the time of redemption

See more about what is not included in a Choice Funeral Plan

What’s included in your Choice Plan Documentation

When you take out a plan with Choice we will send you a welcome pack which will include:

  • A covering welcome letter
  • Your Certificate of Entitlement
  • A letter confirming the total amount paid (including the amount of any Voluntary Contributions you may have made)
  • Details of your Funeral Plan
  • Details of the Nominated Funeral Director

If you have chosen to pay in instalments you will also receive details of the amount to be paid each month and the date of your first direct debit payment.