Bereavement Service Scale of Charges

From 1 April 2018

Cheques or Postal orders to be made payable to Bradford Metropolitan District Council.

You can also pay by debit card.

Crematoria

Cremation

Item	Fees
Cremation of Fetal Remains, still-born child or a child and young person up to and including 18 years of age. (Resident of Bradford only)	Free
Cremation of Fetal Remains, still-born child or a child and young person up to and including 18 years of age. (Resident of Bradford only) Hospital Contract	£80
Cremation Of Adult (No Service, No Attendance, Delivery Only) Before 8.50am or at the discretion of the Bereavement Services Manager	£410
Cremation of Adult (Service) Before 10am	£565
Cremation Of Adult (Service) From 10am up to and including 2.40pm	£694
Cremation Surcharge after 2.40pm up to and including 4.40pm (Subject to Staff Availability)	£73
Saturday morning cremations may be arranged with the Bereavement Services Manager, if sufficient members of Staff are available to provide the service. Please note should a Saturday cremation be accepted the latest time is 10.30am	£950
Environmental Levy (Not Charged Fetal Remains, still-born child or a child and young person up to and including 18 years of age. (Resident of Bradford only)	£55
Medical Referee fee for cremation (Not Charged Fetal Remains, still-born child or a child and young person up to and including 18 years of age. (Resident of Bradford only)	£25
40 Minutes pre booked service time extension (extended booking)	£105
Administration fee to process late Cremation paperwork (forms that are received after 10 am 2 clear working days before the proposed cremation)	£30
Life membership certificates of the Cremation Society are accepted subject to the balance of costs, if any being met from the estate of the deceased

Cremated remains

Item	Fees
Burial or strewing of ashes in crematorium grounds if cremated within the district, family or representative not present	Free
If cremated within the district and family or representative present	£140
If cremated elsewhere	£140
Placing of cremated remains in existing Niche at Scholemoor Crematorium	£140
Package and dispatch of cremated remains to any address in Great Britain	Price on application

Book of Remembrance

Item	Fees
Badges, Crests, Coat of Arms	£155**
Two Line Inscription	£90**
Five Line Inscription	£125**
Eight Line Inscription	£155**
Miniature Book	£100**
Memorial Card	£50**

Kerb plaques/Cremated Remains Memorial Vaults/Sanctum 2000

Item	Fees
Black Granite Desktop Kerb (10 year lease)	£375**
Black Granite Desktop Kerb Renewal (10 year lease)	£188
Pedestal Plaque Scholemoor / Nab Wood / Oakworth (10 year lease)	£60
Pedestal Plaque renewal (10 year lease)	£30
Granite Wall plaque Snowdrop Garden baby and young infant area (10 year lease)	£150**
Granite wall plaque renewal Snowdrop Garden baby and young infant area (10 year lease)	£75
Granite Wall Plaque - Garden of Rest (Scholemoor Only) (10 year lease)	£275
Granite Wall Plaque Renewal - Garden of Rest (Scholemoor Only) (10 year lease)	138
Granite Kerb Plaque (Nab Wood and Oakworth only) (10 year lease)	£275
Granite Kerb Plaque Renewal (Nab Wood and Oakworth only) (10 year lease)	£140
Black Granite Wall Plaque (Queensbury only) (10 year lease)	£350 to 530
Black Granite Wall Plaque Renewal (Queensbury only) (10 year lease)	£175
Black Granite Memorial Tower Plaque (10 year lease)	£295**
Black Granite Memorial Tower Plaque Renewal (10 year lease)	£148
Black Granite Wall Plaque Renewal (Queensbury only) (10 year lease)	£153
Sanctum 2000 memorial vault / Cremated remains memorial vault (25 year lease) including plaque with 80 letter inscription and first interment	£780
Second placement of Cremated Remains in Sanctum 2000 or Cremated Remains memorial vault with additional inscription of 80 letters (room on tablet permitting)	£180
Replacement plaque for Sanctum 2000 or Cremated Remains Memorial Vault with 80 letters	Price on application
Additional Lettering over and above 80 letter inscription (per letter) (Max of 243 letters)	£5
Wooden Cremated Remains Casket	Price on application**
Cremated remains memorial vault 25 year renewal lease (only available when original lease has expired)	£400

Cemeteries

Grants of Right

Burial Grant for 100 years	Fees for residents
Single grave space Class 1 (pathside)	£1275
Single grave space Class 2 (others)	£1100
Half grave space (for coffins under 3ft in length) Class 1 (pathside)	£675
Half grave space (for coffins under 3ft in length) Class 2 (other)	£500
Cremated remains plots (for burial of ashes) for up to 2 sets only	£535
Cremated remains plots (for burial of ashes) 4 sets only. Not available in all cemeteries	£740

Memorial Grants of Right

Item	Fees
Memorials Right (maximum period 100 years) for the right to erect or place upon a grave for which exclusive right for burial has been acquired a grave stone or other memorial.	£150
Additional tablet for existing memorial or Head Border Kerb set	£73
Full Kerb Set (material must be same as existing headstone	£150
Permit charge for a re-inscription of a grave stone or other memorial	£52

Interments

Fees for residents
Interment Fee for Fetal Remains, still-born child or a child and young person up to and including 18 years of age. (Resident of Bradford only)	Free
Interment in stillborn and young infant (up to age of one month) communal grave for which Exclusive Rights of burial have not been granted.	Free
Interment in stillborn and young infant communal grave for which Exclusive Rights of burial have not been granted	£80

Interment fees for residents for graves which Exclusive Rights of burial have been granted

Item	Fees
Half grave space excavating up to 4ft 6” deep (for coffin under 3ft in length)	Free
excavating up to 4ft 6” deep (grave for one)	£825
excavating up to 6ft 0” deep (grave for two)	£910
excavating up to 7ft 6” deep (grave for three) *	£1045
excavating up to 9ft 0” deep (grave for four) *	£1130
Reopen brick grave or vault	£800
Cremated Remains interment	£190
Cremated Remains Interment Saturday (burials only by arrangement with the Bereavement Services Manager. If sufficient members of staff are available to provide the service.) Latest burial time, if accepted, is 11am	£570
Woodland Burial (Thornton Cemetery only)	£1680

* It is not possible to excavate to these depths in all cemetery sections because of ground conditions. In some cemeteries graves will be sold for opening to maximum 6ft (grave for two) only

Saturday Burials

Saturday burials only by arrangement with the Bereavement Services Manager, if sufficient members of staff are available to provide the service. Double Charges apply to all interments on Saturday.

Additional charges

Addition charges for walling earth grave to surface for which exclusive right of burial have been granted. This charge must be made in conjunction with the interment fee.

Item	Fees
Walling of earth grave to surface up to 6ft 0” deep	£1950
Walling of earth grave to surface up to 9ft 0” deep (maximum)	£2670

A burial will be accepted at short notice if all the documentation is produced with immediate effect and if it is possible to facilitate the request, bearing in mind the existing workload. The additional charge for short notice – 50% of interment charge. This fee will apply to

• less than 72 hours notice for a lined grave
• less than 48 hours notice for an earth grave
• less than 24 hours notice for a cremated remains grave.

Memorials

Funeral Directors should arrange for a Monumental Mason to undertake all work on memorials, Headstones, Border Stones removal only (excluding liability)

Use of Chapel

Item	Fees
Use of crematorium chapels for a burial or memorial service Scholemoor, Nab Wood and Oakworth	£150

Miscellaneous

Item	Fees
Administration fee to process late Interment paperwork (forms that are received after 10.00 am 2 clear working days before the proposed interment)	£30
Lining grave to coffin height in existing lined grave	£405
Cremation or Burial certificate	£40
Genealogical Search (where date of death not known)	£84**
Genealogical Search (where date of death not known and before 2002) per person	£15 **
Genealogical Search (where date of death known 2002 onwards) per person	£5 **
Monthly fee for holding cremated remains after 1 month	£58
Memorial seat	Price on application**

Out of borough

1. An additional 50% of the interment fee will be charged if the person to be interred has not been previously been a resident of the Bradford District.
2. An additional 50% of the Exclusive Right fee will be charged for a new grave unless the deceased has been a resident of the Bradford District.
3. If within 2 years the owner of the Exclusive right request a transfer of ownership to someone living outside the District, the additional charge will be payable in addition to the fee for endorsement of the transfer.

Note: The facilities shown are not available at all cemeteries and crematoria.

Where the headstone exceeds the maximum permitted height, breadth or width, the fee for the grant of rights will be double the list price.

VAT will be charged on all exhumations.