If you’d like to show pictures on our plasma screen please fill in one of our consent forms which you can get from your funeral director. The funeral director will return the completed form to us, along with a USB device with the pictures on, by 2pm 48 hours before the service. This means we can make sure the pictures are suitable and prevent any technical issues.

We have the fees for using our plasma screen and USB devices on our funeral costs page and you can find out more information and forms on our  arranging a funeral page.

Walton Lea Crematorium has the ‘Obitus’ system for playing music at funeral services. There is a very wide range of music available, please speak to your Funeral Director as they will book the music online for you.

Alternatively, you can bring your own music (USB only), but please let us know 24 hours prior to the service.

Our chapel organ is also available to use you can find the fee for this on our funeral costs page.

We can livestream the funeral service with an option to watch again for up to 28 days. We can also provide a keepsake copy on  DVD/Blu-Ray/USB stick. The fees for these options are on our funeral costs page. Your Funeral Director can arrange this for you.

You may like to ask people to donate to a charity or organisation instead of sending flowers. We gratefully accept contributions as a token of remembrance to your loved one, which we use to enhance and improve the crematorium grounds and facilities for everyone.

If you wish to make a donation please contact us. We record the name of your loved one, and each month we display the names of people in whose memory donations have been made.

If you’re using a funeral director, they will arrange the cremation for you and deal with all of the paperwork. If you’re arranging the funeral yourself, you must make sure you give all of the paperwork back to us at the crematorium no later than 10am on the working day before the cremation.

You can find out more information on applying for a cremation, including certificates and authorisation forms on .GOV.UK.

The documents we need are available on the arranging a funeral page:

The ‘Cremation 1’ or ‘CR1’ form

This is an application for cremation of the body. You must fill this in and sign it the presence of someone who knows you.

The Certificate for Cremation or Burial

A green form – you’ll be given this when you register the death.

The ‘Cremation 4’ or ‘CR4’ form

This form is either completed by the doctor who attended the deceased within 28 days prior to death or by the doctor who certified the death and is issued by the hospital where the deceased died or by their GP surgery.

The ‘Cremation 5’ or ‘CR5’ form

The ‘Cremation 5’ or ‘CR5’ is currently not required under the Covid 19 Act.

Written instructions

Write down what kind of service you have chosen, what you would like to include, what you would like to do with the ashes afterwards, and any other information that we need to know.

If the coroner has been involved, we need a Coroners Order for Cremation instead of the green form and the CR4 and CR5 forms.

After the cremation, you will need to decide what you’d like to do with the cremated remains. We can hold them for 28 days after the cremation has taken place, free of charge, after 28 days we charge a small fee for storage. You can find this on our funeral costs page.

Or you can collect them. We will only give the cremated remains to you, or to someone else if you let us know in writing, in advance. You, or the person you have authorised to collect, must bring proof of identity such as a driving licence or passport.

There are places in our beautiful gardens where we can scatter the ashes, or you can inter the remains in a plot in our Garden of Remembrance. Find out more about strewing and interment at Walton Lea Crematorium.

You may also like to remember your loved one with one of our memorials at Walton Lea.