Modern & Traditional Funerals

Name: Gooding Funeral Services
Address: 184 Chapeltown Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS74HP, UK
Telephone: 0113 210 7998

Whether you choose a modern or traditional funeral for your loved one, we'll organise everything for you and because our funeral arrangers and directors are funeral industry trained, they will ensure that your arrangements are carried out with care, courtesy and efficiency, every step of the way.

"I've have found this company to be very professional at all times. At such an emotional time they have showed the upmost empathy with families and guest.
Alleviating the added pressure from families who are grieving for their lost ones without the added pressure of concerns about cost, time and planning. I would highly recommend Hugh Gooding Funeral Services."

Meloney Clarke

Our Funeral Services

Our range of service will ensure an occasion which truly reflects the memory of the person you have lost. Please do call us, if you wish to discuss something which does not appear:

Registering the Death; once you have obtained the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death from the General/Medical Practitioner - who attended to the person who has passed away, we can advise and assist you to register the death
Medical Certificates and Legal Documents; we will help you with the completion and submission to the correct authorities, of all relevant certificates and documentation
Coffins and Caskets; helping you to find the right one for your loved one
Interment Space; our service includes the organisation or purchase of a grave, plot, columbarium space or other final resting place
Public Notices; online and social media obituaries, notices in local and national newspaper publications
Flowers and Stationery; beautiful floral tributes, orders of service and other personalised stationary
Funeral Transportation; traditional motorised hearse, limousines, horse-drawn hearse or other specialist or quirky funeral transportation.
Catering and Reception Venue; we can arrange the delivery of catering to your home reception or alternatively we can organise a reception venue, with catering, flowers and decoration
Headstones and Memorial Masonry; the provision and restoration of headstones and memorial masonry
Urns for Ashes and Cremation Caskets; helping you to make the perfect choice
Repatriation; the domestic or international transportation of your loved one, is safety to their final resting place

Modern Funerals

As the Natural Death Centre's approved funeral director for Leeds, we are able to offer our clients a range of natural, ethical and ecologically sound alternatives to the traditional funeral.

Our online obituary page provides those who would like to offer their condolences to the family, a paperless platform from which to do so. Donations can be made via our obituary page and some of our more environmentally conscious families, have request that charitable donations be made in lieu of flowers.

Should you wish to have a Civil or Humanist Celebrant preside over your loved one's funeral, we can recommend a suitable, non-religious officiant, based both on the character of the person who has passed away, and the needs of the family and other mourners.

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From locally produced, bio-degradable coffins and shrouds, to local, natural burial grounds comprising woodland burials and meadow cemeteries, we will ensure you say the best goodbye.

Traditional Funerals: Cultural Religious

Here at Hugh Gooding Funeral Services, we respect the cultural and religious traditions of our clients and their families. The heritage and observances of those we serve, are of the utmost importance to us and we strive continuously to provide a superior service by enabling our clients to participate in their own funeral practice.

Over the years, we have had the privilege of working with people of all religious beliefs, of all races and from all walks of life. We help African, African-Caribbean, English, Irish, Latvian and Polish people from many Christian denominations and we serve Asian families of the Hindu and Sikh faiths.

We are often asked by individuals who no longer practice or who have converted from the religion they were raised within, to help arrange funerals that are respectful and inclusive. We feel honoured to have worked with people from Jewish, Muslim, Rastafarian and Roman Catholic backgrounds to name but a few.

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We promise to ensure that your needs remain paramount. Your questions and concerns will be taken seriously and both you and your loved one will always be treated with care and treated with respect.

Christian Funerals

We will always try to ensure that any specific requests you have, such as burial with the consecrated grounds of a municipal cemetery, are discussed with your minister or shared with your church authority, submitted to the relevant Local Burial Authority, and then followed though.

We work most frequently with the following Christian denominations:

Baptist Church
Church of England
Methodist Church
New Testament Church of God
Pentecostal Church
Roman Catholic Church
Seventh Day Adventist Church
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Unitarian Church

If you do not see your denomination listed above, or you have any questions, please contact us for further information.

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From the moment we started, we've been fortunate enough to have attended to the needs of most Christian denominations. As a result of our work, we have forged warm relationships with church ministers across Leeds and throughout West Yorkshire. We are always happy to work with churches and ministers of religion on behalf of our clients and if you have a particular minister in mind, please do let us know and we would be delighted to discuss your requirements with them.

Sikh Funerals

Hugh Gooding Funeral Services is privileged to have served the Sikh community of Leeds, Huddersfield and surrounding areas, since we began in 2007. We are dedicated to providing a service which is open and respectful to your community and its cultural tradition.

We pride ourselves on the fact that we can provide a place that is conveniently located and suitable for funeral practices such as ceremonial bathing, dressing and prayer. We will work with you, your Giani and with your designated family member, to ensure that the memory of your loved-one is honoured.

Our services also allow for the immediate storage of ashes following the funeral service and for the collection of ashes, at a time that is convenient for you.

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Should you or your Giani wish to discuss your requirements, please do not hesitate to contact us.

African Caribbean/West Indian Funerals

We have been attending African and Caribbean/West Indian funerals all our lives, and we really do understand the scale and time frame that these occasions involve. In fact, it's probably fair to say that with our combined age and practical knowledge, our experience of (BME) funerals in Leeds, is unrivalled.

We have helped individuals from a range of faith groups, and we have had the privilege of working with observers of a variety of religious faiths, within the same family unit. Those who have come to us in their time of need, have included followers of the Rastafarian faith and also those who have converted/reverted to Islam. We have helped not only families in Leeds, but also individuals in Birmingham, Bradford, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Manchester and Wakefield.

We value the importance of family and we truly understand the stress that a family unit will undergo, having suffered the loss of a loved one. We are always happy to meet large families and we find that our warm, friendly approach, meets the needs of grieving relatives.

To find out more about our provision of BME, black, or mixed race funerals:

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At Gooding, you can be sure that we will attend to your wishes fully. We will work happily with your minister of religion and take into account the location and ownership of shared family graves, the provision of sufficient shovels at the graveside - in case those attending wish to backfill, and we will take care of UK domestic and international repatriation.

Our competitively priced services extend to assisting overseas clients, who have the responsibility for arranging a funeral for a loved one who has passed away here in the UK.