At Newsome's Funeral home, we offer a range of funerals to suit your needs, with our family serving yours.
We know how important it can be for you and your family to say your farewells exactly the way you want to. Your wishes will be our priority, from the type of funeral to the finer details, such as hymns, music, flowers and visual tributes. Neil, Kirstine and Martin are on hand to discuss any of your personal requirements.
Weetshaw Close, Shafton, S72 8PZ
Summer Lane, Barnsley, S70 2NW
44 Barnsley Road, South Elmsall, Pontefract, WF9 2RF
5-7 Brampton Road, Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham, S63 6AN
The Funeral Home, Doncaster Road, Mexborough, S64 0JD
54 Barnsley Road,, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 8DJ
The team at Newsome's aim to serve families of South and West Yorkshire with great care. By listening to your wishes, we can arrange a meaningful farewell to honour your loved one's life. Funeral planning can be a difficult process for many people, so we will provide feelings of reassurance and ease during this time.
When you need our help, we will always be here, so please contact our team when you are ready.
Explore our funeral packages below, so we can arrange the funeral you have in mind for your loved one.
If you’re looking for a traditional or contemporary funeral with a service, you should consider our Attended Funeral. If you want us to arrange a simple cremation without mourners present, our Unattended Funeral may better suit your needs.
The Attended Funeral provides a tailored and dignified goodbye for your loved one. Whether traditional or contemporary, you can pay your respects in the supportive company of family and friends.
The Unattended Funeral is a lower cost option that allows family and friends to remember your loved one in their own way, without the need for a traditional service or ceremony.
Commemorate your loved one's life with a Memorial to keep their memory alive. Choose from a variety of options, from headstones, urns to memorial plaques, vases, benches, statues, jewellery, and more, allowing you to create something special that reflects their life, love, and cherished memories.
If a loved one has passed away and you need help to arrange a funeral, our Funeral Directors at Newsome's are here to support you every step of the way. Below are some frequently asked questions about how to arrange a funeral, which you may find helpful. If you have any further questions, please call us anytime on 01977 642353
At Newsome's, we are proud to be a Dignity Funeral Director. Our funeral business sits in the Dignity family which means we are supported by an organisation that provides stability and holds us to a very high standard of care, facilities and service.
If a loved one has passed, our step-by-step guide will help support you on the actions to take, including getting started on how to arrange a funeral. If you feel that you would benefit from additional support and personal guidance, please get in touch with us and we will talk you through everything.
When someone dies, you should aim to call your Funeral Director as soon as possible, after you have called the doctor. This allows for you to arrange for the deceased to be collected and to be brought into our care as soon as they are ready.
Your loved one will be cared for by our Funeral Directors. Once they have been brought into our care, they will be thoughtfully looked after at either one of our funeral homes or one of our care centres. Your Funeral Director will be able to confirm the details of this so you will know where your loved one is at all times.
If you wish to visit the Chapel of Rest during the time before the funeral, please speak to one of our Funeral Directors who will be happy to arrange a suitable date and time for you to visit. It is important to make an appointment so that the Chapel of Rest is available for you to use and your loved one is prepared for your visit.
If the cause of death means that visiting could be distressing, or if their death was caused by a hazardous illness, you should seek the advice of your Funeral Director.
Having to let people know that someone has passed away can be a very difficult and stressful situation to go through. The way you break the news to people will completely depend on how well you know them and their relationship with the person who has passed away. If you’re in the position of having to inform family and friends, we hope you find this guide to announcing a death useful.
We can take care of helping you to action your loved ones funeral plan, as the process is very straightforward. To get started, please call us on 01977 642353 and we can talk you through what happens next.
We are a member of the National Association of Funeral Directors and as such we abide by The Funeral Director Code. We also have a legal obligation to try and ensure the person who is arranging a funeral has the right to do so, or has permission from those who do. If you are aware that someone has been appointed as the administrator, you should only arrange the funeral with this person's agreement. If there is no Will or Letters of Administration, then the responsibility would pass to the next of kin.
A Memorial is a way of creating a lasting memory to help remember a loved one.
Dignity has been established for over 200 years and is one of the UK’s leading providers of Funerals and with an ‘Excellent’ Trustpilot rating (03/24). We are proud to help our customers every year with a diverse range of Memorial products and services to help remember their loved ones.
We offer a wide range of products – from traditional headstones, kerb sets, urns and benches to remembrance trees, plaques and vases. We also offer more personal and modern options such as jewellery, pin badges and photo related memorial products. As well as completely customised items.
From 9 September 2024, there will no longer be a doctor's fee in England and Wales when arranging a funeral. This is because from this date, all deaths in England and Wales will be independently viewed, either by a relevant coroner or by a Medical Examiner and the cost will be met by the NHS.
A Medical Examiner is a specifically trained independent senior doctor who will scrutinise all deaths across a local area that do not fall under the coroner's jurisdiction. By providing a greater level of scrutiny over the cause of deaths; it is hoped that the introduction of Medical Examiners will make it less likely that unnatural causes of death will go unnoticed; that the number of deaths unnecessarily referred to the coroner will be reduced and that national data about causes of death will be captured with greater accuracy.
Medical Examiners, or Medical Examiner Officers, will also be available to meet with families, or their representatives, if they wish to discuss the cause of death.
Dear Newsom‘s funerals we wanted to express our deepest gratitude for your exceptional support and care during the planning, and on the day of our Mums funeral. Your professionalism, patience and compassion made a truly difficult time easier for us. The service was a beautiful heartfelt tribute to our Mum written, and we are so grateful for everything you did to make it so special. We have heard nothing but good things from those who attended and we truly approve appreciate your efforts.
I could not thank Newsome's enough they made everything so much easier it did take a lot of presure off us and they even phoned us the week after the funeral to check we was all OK i would highly recommend them there service was amazing and nothing was too much trouble' thank you to all at Newsome's
A huge thank you to Becky and Diane for all their kind support in making arrangements for my Mum's funeral and easing a very difficult time. Also to Liz and her team for bringing such professionalism and dignity to the day.
We can't thank Patsy, Neil, Nicola and all the team enough. From first contacting them to collecting mums ashes the care and compassion they should us all was amazing. They made everything so much easier for us at a difficult time. Knowing mum was being looked after by these lovely people made us feel so much more at ease. Everything was absolutely perfect from start to finish to make mums day so special. Thank you so much. Will be forever grateful to you all.
Can't thank Nichola and team at Newsomes Shafton. Nichola made a very difficult time, so much easier. She talked us through every step, and even made follow up phone calls to make sure all was ok. I would highly recommended Newsomes Shafton to help you through the hardest times.
4 King Edwards Court,
King Edward Square,
Sutton Coldfield,
West Midlands, B73 6AP
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