What to Do with Ashes in England

Find UK-wide memorial services for ashes, from online tribute pages and QR memorial plaques to postal memorial jewellery and eco urns.

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Scattering Of Ashes At Sea

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Scattering of Ashes by Brownes Thames Estuary Boat Trips Scattering of Ashes is a dedicated service from Brownes Ventures Ltd, trading as Brownes Thames Estuary Boat Trips. From Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, we offer private boat trips for families wishing to say goodbye to a loved one on the Thames Estuary. Aboard Starfish or Ronnoch Mor, you can share memories, say a Read more…

Funeral Notices

funeral-notices.co.uk is the UK’s largest death notice and online tribute platform, carrying over 5 million notices. Families can announce a death, publish funeral arrangements and create an everlasting tribute page where friends and relatives light candles, add photos and leave tributes for free. Charitable donations can be collected through the notice, run in partnership with Donatis. Notices are searchable nationally Read more…

Loop Biotech

Loop Biotech grows funeral products from mushroom mycelium and upcycled hemp, all fully biodegradable and designed to enrich the soil as they break down. For families with ashes, the relevant product is the Loop EarthRise, a mushroom urn that returns ashes to the earth rather than storing them. They also make the Loop Living Cocoon coffin, the Loop ForestBed carrier Read more…

For Their Encore

For Their Encore is a subscription memorial platform built around celebrating how someone lived rather than how they died. Families answer a set of guided questions and the platform builds an ENCORE page from their answers, photos and videos, which relatives and friends can then visit and add their own memories to. It supports funeral logistics too, including sharing service Read more…

MyMemoir

A UK company offering personalised QR code memorial plaques (in Perspex or anodised aluminium) linked to a custom online memoir page, including written memoir, photo gallery, memorial video and a condolence book. Also does pet memorial plaques. Genuine, well-reviewed small business, customers mention founder/team member Callum by name in reviews. Read more…

Forever Near Memorial Jewellery

A solo maker, Kim, creating affordable memorial jewellery from ashes, hair and fur, using genuine crushed opal and tested UV resin rather than the cheaper stuff. Known for a personal, hands-on approach with clients, strong independent reviews. Contact via the website, no public studio address. Read more…

QR Living Memories

QR Living Memories is a UK-based service offering QR code memorial plaques and online tribute pages where families can preserve photos, videos, and life stories of a loved one. The QR code links to a dedicated memorial page accessible to family and friends anywhere in the world. Services include custom plaques for urns, graves, benches, and keepsakes. Read more…

Remember Me QR

Remember Me QR creates personalised digital memorial pages linked to a physical QR code medallion, specifically designed for families who have chosen cremation or direct cremation and want a meaningful place to visit and share memories. The weather-resistant anodised aluminium medallion can be placed on an urn, ashes box, photo frame, memorial bench, or any keepsake, linking instantly to a Read more…

Not every memorial service is tied to one place. Many providers work across England and the rest of the UK by post or online, so families can choose them wherever they live. This page gathers those services, from online tribute pages and QR code memorials to memorial jewellery and eco-friendly urns. For local providers, choose your county from the list above. If you're still deciding, our guide to what to do with ashes after cremation covers the main options.

Online memorials and QR plaques

Online tribute pages give family and friends one place to share photos, stories and memories. Funeral Notices is the UK's largest death notice and tribute platform. For Their Encore builds a tribute page from guided questions, while Remember Me QR, QR Living Memories and MyMemoir make weatherproof QR code plaques that can sit on an urn, bench or keepsake and link to a memorial page. See all online memorials.

Eco urns and jewellery by post

Loop Biotech grows biodegradable urns from mushroom mycelium, returning ashes to the earth rather than storing them. Forever Near Memorial Jewellery is a solo maker creating affordable ashes jewellery with crushed opal, sent and returned by post. See our memorial ideas for ashes for more.

Can memorial jewellery be made by post?

Yes. Most memorial jewellers send a kit for a small amount of ashes or hair, then post the finished piece back, so you don't need to live nearby.

What is a QR code memorial?

It's a small weatherproof plaque with a QR code that links to an online memorial page. It can be fixed to an urn, bench or keepsake, so visitors can scan it and see photos and stories.

What is a biodegradable urn?

An urn designed to break down naturally, returning the ashes to the earth. Some are made to be buried, some to be placed in water, and some grow a tree or plant.