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Useful contacts for when someone has died

When someone dies it can be a stressful, difficult and confusing time. There can also be lots of people that you need to contact and paperwork to get in order. To try and help you out and make your life a little easier, we've tried to bring all the contacts you might need together in one place.

Wills and Will writing

Citizens Advice Bureau:

To find your local CAB office:

To find a solicitor in your area:

The Law Society: www.lawsociety.org.uk

To find a Will writer in your area:

The Society of Will Writers:

The Institute of Professional Willwriters:

If you wish to deposit a Will for safe keeping with the Probate Registry (rather than at home or with a solicitor):

  • Call 020 7947 6939

  • or write to the Probate Department:

    The Principal Registry of the Family Division,
    First Avenue House,
    42-49 High Holborn,
    London WC1V 6NP.

To leave money to a charity in your Will:

Remember a Charity:

Funerals

To find a funeral director in your area:

National Association of Funeral Directors:

The Co-operative Funeralcare:

The Natural Death Centre is a charity whose mission is to inform the public on woodland or natural burials and environmentally friendly coffins.

Natural Death Centre:

If you do not want any form of religious ceremony, the British Humanist Association can give advice on a non-religious (secular) service.

British Humanist Association:

A civil ceremony is one that can contain both non-religious and religious elements and is structured in accordance with your personal preferences. A civil celebrant can be contacted through The Institute of Civil Funerals

The Institute of Civil Funerals

The Bereavement Advice Centre provides information, advice and signposting on practical issues after a death including registration, benefits and probate.

Bereavement Advice Centre:

To find gravestones

Names of local monumental masons:

National Association of Memorial Masons:

To find your local HM Revenue & Customs

HMRC Enquiry Centres:

www.hmrc.gov.uk/enq/index.htm

To find your local Registrar of Births & Deaths

Make sure you telephone first to make an appointment and to check you have the correct office related to the place where the person died.

www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Death/index.htm

Organ donation

To arrange for organ/tissue donation or obtain a donor card.

The NHS Organ Donor Register:

Unwanted mail

To help stop unwanted mail being sent to someone who has died, you can register their details with the Bereavement Register and the Deceased Preference Service. To ensure the most accurate service download their forms from their websites if you prefer to post information to them.

The Bereavement Register:

Deceased Preference Service: