Funeral fees

[roisin]

If you are an active member of your church and have been for nearly 40 years, would your church/vicar charge you a funeral fee for an immediate member of the family?

If so, how much?

Yes, I presume so. I mean, the church's maintenance costs are the same regardless of whose funeral it is, aren't they? I don't know how much the church fees are tbh but I would expect to pay them.

Our church does not "charge" anything, but we only hold the service. We do not have a churchyard so cannot have burials - and you would always have to pay for the cremation or internment.

Here's a link to C of E fees. I'm pretty sure the service fee can be waived at the Parish's discretion but you may have to pay the burial and certificate fees.

All fees are waived for infants.

dh is a minister of religion and he never charges people with close connections to the church for funerals or weddings. Blimey, he'd be out on his ear if he did!

This is a fee for the service/minister - ie on top of cremation fee or whatever.

Our priest did in those circumstances. £125 and another £80 for organist.

Pretty sure there's no fee here roisin (our dh's share a calling though mine's church of scotland). Any grave type fees would go to funeral directors (though we don't have a graveyard attached to our building, maybe it would be different if we did I dunno).

There is generally a donation given - sometimes to dh and sometimes to the church.