COLIN GREEN | Introducing my services

Welcome.

I am available full-time to lead funeral services in a friendly, compassionate and flexible manner, whether religious or non-religious, traditional or an alternative contemporary style, whichever is your preference.

By tradition my title is 'funeral officiant' or 'funeral celebrant', i.e. the person who leads the service at the crematorium or other location for the funeral, burial, interment of ashes, memorial or thanksgiving service.

You can request my services directly or ask your funeral director to contact me. It's your right to choose who you wish to lead the service.

I am happy to make a home visit if you wish, to discuss and plan how best I can serve you, offering an attentive approach to preparing a compassionate thanksgiving and farewell for your loved one, tailor-made for you.

I can offer suggestions for appropriate music, songs, hymns, spiritual and non-spiritual poems, prayers, readings from the Bible and how to help children participate if that is your wish. We can discuss and plan together how best to share your appreciation of your loved one.

Alternatively, with so much on your mind, you may wish me to prepare the service as I think best, after we've chatted together.

If you live a considerable distance from Oxfordshire so that it is necessary to prepare the service by means of phone conversations and emails, I am happy to do that too.

The basic cost of a home visit to meet you, plan the funeral and then take the service is normally £135 for a funeral in Witney or Oxford, with a modest extra charge towards travelling expenses for funerals in other areas.

In the days or weeks following the funeral you may wish for me to visit or ring you to chat about how you and your family are coping. Sometimes this period after a funeral can seem very empty, so it would be a pleasure to serve you further if that is your wish.

Whether you are requesting a cremation, a burial, a thanksgiving or memorial service, or interment of ashes it would be a privilege to serve you.