Life-saving equipment installed at Priory Woods Cemetery 21st October 2025 Priory Woods Cemetery has become the latest Hull City Council site to have a life-saving defibrillator installed. The heart-starting device adds to the one already available at Chanterlands Crematorium, as well as those at other council locations. This particular installation has been made possible by Hull Action for Neighbourhood Defibrillators (HANDS), a partnership where Hull […] Read more Community and Living Customer Services Health and Social Care News Public Health Bereavement ServicesCllr Ted DolmanPriory Woods Cemetery
Crematorium gets ‘Letters to Heaven’ post box 23rd July 2025 A post box allowing bereaved families and friends to leave letters to their late loved ones is now available at Hull’s Chanterlands Crematorium. The white letter box, below, has been kindly donated by a local community group, which wanted those dealing with grief to have the chance to write to their dearly departed. ‘Creative Hands […] Read more Civic Customer Services News Bereavement ServicesChanterlands CrematoriumCllr PritchardCouncillor Cheryl PayneLord Mayor
Funeral director visits completed in Hull and East Riding 4th April 2024 Visits made to all funeral directors in Hull and the East Riding have now been completed, as a consequence of the on-going Humberside Police investigation into Legacy Independent Funeral Directors Ltd. Public protection teams from Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council have spent the past three weeks speaking to funeral directors and […] Read more Legacy Funeral Directors Incident News Bereavement ServicesFuneralsLegacy Independent Funeral DirectorsPublic Protection
Low-cost funerals available from Council’s Bereavement Services 20th February 2024 Hull City Council’s Bereavement Services is helping families at a difficult time by offering funeral services from as little as £800. The starting cost of an unattended cremation service at the Chanterlands Crematorium is almost half the average price for a direct cremation (according to the Sunlife Cost of Dying Report 2024). Chanterlands Crematorium is […] Read more Customer Services News Bereavement ServicesChanterlands CrematoriumCllr Jack HainesPriory Woods Cemetery
Crematorium’s recycling boost for local bereavement charity 10th March 2022 A Hull charity that supports bereaved new parents has received a much-needed boost thanks to a special recycling scheme. Hull City Council’s Chanterlands Crematorium’s donation of £15,000 to the Abbie’s Fund will help the charity provide memory boxes for the Maternity Unit at Hull Royal Infirmary’s Women and Children’s Hospital, to give to parents who […] Read more Customer Services News Abbie's FundBereavement ServicesCllr Rosie NicolaICCMKaty Cowell
Coronavirus: Hull crematorium puts measures in place 23rd March 2020 Gatherings for funeral services and burials at Chanterlands Avenue Crematorium in Hull are to be limited to 10 people. The measures are being put in place in line with Government guidance on limiting public gatherings due to coronavirus. Scattering of ashes with families present and interments of ashes are suspended until further notice. Staff are […] Read more Closures Coronavirus Customer Services News Bereavement ServicesChanterlands Avenue Crematorium
Dutch Cadets to visit Hull to trace steps of Second World War soldier 12th February 2020 Twenty-five Cadets and two teachers from the Netherlands will visit Hull as part of a project to trace the steps of a Second World War soldier. Corporal Richard Sydney Huitt, who began his military journey in Hull, was killed in action and buried in the grounds of the Cadets’ school in the Netherlands. The Cadets […] Read more Civic News Armed ForcesBereavement ServicesCouncillor Alan GardinerCouncillor Steve WilsonLord MayorVeterans Community Hub
