Sarah Bertram

A final farewell – your way…. I am an experienced and professionally qualified civil funeral celebrant supporting families in the West Midlands and surrounding areas.

I work to create truly personal and unique funeral ceremonies, celebrating and reflecting the life of loved ones. Capturing someone’s very essence is at the heart of our planning together.

One of the wonderful things about this work/vocation is the families one is able to help, and their very appreciative comments afterwards. A recent comment: “Throughout our discussions Sarah was both warm and professional. She has a great way of drawing information and reminiscences out of people while keeping you on an even keel emotionally. I felt like she was a lifebelt thrown my way as I was struggling to organise the funeral on my own – the family didn’t want to help. She has a great fund of resources to call on for readings and music so that we could follow xxxxx’s outdoorsy theme that was developing for his service. Once we had got the service organised I knew I could trust her to be in charge and professional on the day and indeed she was. The way she delivered the service was lovely and just how I’d imagined it.”

“A civil funeral is a funeral driven by the wishes, beliefs and values of the deceased and their family, not by the beliefs or ideology of the person conducting the funeral. It sits between a religious and a humanist funeral.” IOCF.