Our services

All our branches are able to deal with every aspect of the comprehensive service provided by C E Hitchcock including all funeral arrangements, Wills and the Pre-Arranged Funeral Trust. The links on this page will direct you to details of just some of the services we are able to offer you.

C E Hitchcock prides itself in providing a bespoke funeral service. If you can’t find what you are looking for within these pages, please do not hesitate to contact any of our funeral arrangers for assistance.

Training

C E Hitchcock has extensive experience in the provision of bereavement training. Our staff have provided training on a regular basis to nursing home staff, clergy, Ministry of Defence personnel, healthcare and other professionals who face bereavement issues as part of their daily duties.

Working with our trusted providers we can create a film using video footage, still photography and music to capture the essence of the day. There is also the facility to Live stream a service.

Please contact your arranger for further information and costs.

C E Hitchcock can provide a wide selection of stonemasonry, from the simplest of plaques to the most ornate and elaborate memorial. We can also organise additional inscription, renovation, polishing and cleaning of existing memorials.

Your choice of memorial does not need to be made when you arrange the funeral. Our arrangers are always available to assist you with your choice at the appropriate time.

Please click on the link below to view our Memorial Brochure:

Be assured, we always endeavour to produce something special that captures the essence of the beloved deceased. We provide the full range of funeral stationery. Whether it’s a memorial bookmark, mourning card
or thank you card, your families can choose from the designs in this brochure or we can provide a
bespoke design especially for them.

C E Hitchcock can organise your flowers for you, either directly or through our network of personal florists. Our personal florists will even travel to your home to discuss your specific requirements.

Here are a few samples of menus available, please ask your arranger for a full menu and price list.

Some families like to use a recording, but many prefer to hear the music performed live. If you engage some musicians for the ceremony, they will not only be able to perform the music you have chosen, but will also be able to lead the singing. Even a very small choir – of just four voices – will make any funeral service more memorable. At C E Hitchcock we are able to arrange first-class choirs, with singers taken from a pool of professional musicians from London’s top cathedrals and churches, including St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, and accompanied by organists of a similar calibre. All are sensitive and discreet, providing immaculate music-making in a gentle and understated manner.

We can also supply harpists, trumpeters, Irish and Scottish pipers, other solo instrumentalists (such as flautists, violinists etc), brass, wind and string ensembles (such as funeral trumpets and muffled drums, string quartets etc) and even marching jazz bands.

Below are some examples of the music that can be used:

Joanna is a professional, classically-trained singer, performing with many of the UK’s leading choirs, orchestras and opera companies. Recent highlights include singing as a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall, performing around the country with Opera North, Opera Holland Park and Buxton International Festival, and giving a lunchtime recital at the Royal Opera House.

More importantly, Joanna is also an experienced funeral singer. For over ten years, she has been singing at funerals and memorial services of all kinds – at crematoriums and gravesides, from the tiniest of churches to Salford Cathedral.

Few tenors have the warmth of tone, the technical prowess and the incredible facility he possess in the higher register, but even fewer sing so honestly from their heart and soul. He does so in just the right way, combining art, technique and feelings in perfect harmony.

We have chapels of rest in all of our branches. Our chapels are designed to serve all religious denominations.