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Tag: Memorial Woodland

Where birdsong replaces traffic and paths thread through dappled light, memorial woodlands lend farewells a gentler pace. This tag gathers human-interest stories and local updates from woodland burial parks, community forests and nature reserves: tree-side ceremonies with simple readings, petal...

The Woodland Trust: Policy on Scattering Ashes

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Wood Trust – Ash Scattering Policy The Woodland Trust is a Charity that aims to enable the creation of more native woods and places rich in trees; protect native woods, trees and their wildlife for the future and inspire everyone to enjoy and value woods and trees. They have a significant estate across the country. […]

Life for a Life: Memorial Trees and Woodlands

Company Name / Charity Name Life For A Life Memorial Forests Location Head Office Chadderton, Oldham but memorial forest locations across the UK. Type of Environment Mixture of natural, urban and peri-urban sites. All managed differently for the benefit of people and wildlife but all majority managed as public open space and open 24/7 365 […]

Wilsill Harrogate – Memorial Trees and Woodland

Company Name Make It Wild Limited Location Wilsill, near Harrogate Type of Environment Woodland Memorial Tree Yes, ash treated and mixed with compost Types of Services Offered Memorial tree Direct Burial No Memorials We provide an untreated wooden plaque with a bespoke message from the family. Celebrant Referral Offered Not as far as I’m aware, […]

Woodland Burial Company – Ashes Memorial Wood

Company Name Woodland Burial Company Location Chesterfield, Derbyshire Type of Environment Woodland Memorial Tree Yes Types of Services Offered It’s entirely up to the family. We have had services with one mourner, a full Welsh male voice choir and everything in between. Direct Burial Yes Memorials A5 brass plaques can be mounted onto a tree […]

Do you want to be a Tree when you die?

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If you want to become a tree when you die the know you are one of many. In fact It is one of the most common requests from people … they want to grow a tree, a bush or a rose from their loved one’s ashes. I used to tell people: don’t use a pot, the […]

A problem with personal memorialisation in Nottingham Crematoria’s communal woodland

The needs of the individual will often come into conflict with the needs many, and here is a case in point. Ms Kara Thrall scattered the ashes of her mother and grandmother in the same spot in Nottingham’s Wilford Hill Crematorium in the communal woodland. On the 3rd anniversary of her death Ms Thrall visited […]

A funeral club for ashes

Funeral Club for Ashes and Shared Memorial Woodland A funeral club, so I am told, is where a collective: a society or group of friends agree to do a joint venture once they pass away and in order fulfil this wish they contribute to a fund. I quite like this idea, you could be […]

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Memorial Woodland in the Lake District

Memorial Woodland close to the Lake District Planting a memorial tree together with cremated remains Are you thinking of having your ashes scattered or buried under a memorial tree? Does the Lake District sound like a wonderful resting place? If so, then we can help. This beautiful woodland is located just outside of Alston, close the Lake […]

Memorial woodland for ashes: NEAR Lake District Cumbria

Ashes memorial tree Having a tree as a memorial is a great idea. And a woodland where the tree is managed, where you can scatter or bury your ashes , where there is someone to care for that tree – well that takes a weight off the mind. There are many natural burial sites around […]