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Our Service
To exceed our clients needs in standards, service and professional expertise by providing a sympathetic, caring, discreet and professional service from a family business.
Once in our professional care we can advise you on:
- All the necessary arrangements for burial or cremation
- Liaising with your local church and minister
- Organising all the legal documentation required
- Supplying all the necessary vehicles
- Floral tributes
- Your musical requirements
- Memorials
- Order of Service Booklets
- Obituary and Acknowledgement notices
- Attendance Cards
- Repatriation
- Bereavement counselling
- Catering facilities
- Probate advice
- Receiving and administering charitable donations
- Home visits
- Your Pre-payment funeral plans
Our modern vehicle fleet consists of Daimler Hearses and Limousines. The Limousines seat up to six passengers. Our vehicles are chauffeur driven and we provide sufficient bearers for your needs.
 A Piper, Bugler, Soloist or even a jazz Band, might be a fitting tribute to the life of the deceased and enhance the atmosphere of the funeral.
We also have access to a number of more specialized vehicles, including a choice of black or white horse drawn hearses. Motorcycle hearses and other makes of hearses and limousines.
Orders of Service or simple hymn sheet may be provided on request. Please note however the content must be approved by the officiant who will be taking the service. We are able to provide the traditional printed black on white card orders of service ourselves. Colour/photo type orders of service can be arranged with advance notice through an outside supplier, to your specific requirements, to incorporate personal pictures.
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We can arrange a symbolic release of doves as part of the funeral service – either at the graveside or in the garden of remembrance.
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Our Staff
 Ian Hazel |
Ian Hazel is a fourth generation Funeral Director, joining the family business of A. Hazel and Sons in 1977 after obtaining a good commercial training in industry. When, in 1987, the former family business was acquired by Hodgson Holdings , Ian left to set up his own business.
Ian is fully qualified, gaining his diploma in Funeral Directing in May 1979 and being admitted to full membership of the British Institute of Embalmers in June 1979.
Despite suffering a major fire in 1999, Ian has carried on expanding the business.
"This disaster motivated me into expanding the business, and I now have three branch offices, all giving the caring personal service our clients have come to expect. We also try to exceed their needs in standards, service and professional expertise, in line with ever changing legislation within the profession."
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 Chris Palmer |
Christopher Palmer began his career in Funeral Directing with The Greater Nottingham Co-operative Funeral Service in 1984. Progressing from Driver/Bearer, through the positions of Funeral Conductor, Supervisor and Funeral Arranger, gaining a wide range of experience. He achieved the National Association of Funeral Directors Diploma in Funeral Directing in 1987.
Chris joined Ian Hazel Funerals in 1991 as General Manager. |
 Sue Townes |
Sue Townes started working in medical ancillary supplies to nursing homes and the caring profession for fifteen years. After losing her own Dad in July 2002, she had a vocation to want to work in the funeral profession. She joined Ian Hazel Funerals in June 2003 as a trainee funeral director, gaining her National Association of Funeral Directors Diploma in Funeral Directing in October 2006.
Sue now holds the position of Office Manager. |
 James Horne |
James Horne, after gaining the National Association of Funeral Directors Diploma in Funeral Directing (aged 17 years) started up his own funeral business in Woodville, South Derbyshire where he still lives.
With the support of the community he very quickly built up a well established funeral home. He traded for three years on his own, until he sold the business to Tamworth Co-operative in October 1997, for whom he went to work as Operations Manager of their funeral division, where he oversaw all the day to day running of a large funeral home.
James joined Ian Hazel Funerals in September 2005 as a Senior Funeral Director. |
 Amy Hazel |
Amy Hazel, a fifth generation Funeral Director of the Hazel family joined her father, Ian in his business Ian Hazel funerals in March 2006. She decided to join the family business after obtaining a Bsc Honors Degree at Nottingham Trent University in Food Science. After an initial period of training she gained her National Association of Funeral Directors Diploma in Funeral Directing in May 2008. She now holds the position of a fully qualified Funeral Director. |
We are proud to be members of the following Associations.
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Established in 1905 The National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) is the country's leading funeral trade association and is dedicated to maintaining the highest professional standards.
The NAFD represents the interests of funeral directors conducting more than 80% of UK funerals together with a host of supplier businesses.
The NAFD has been supporting funeral directors for over 100 years and is dedicated to maintaining the highest professional standards and monitoring its members to ensure compliance with a strict Code of Practice.
The NAFD provides a wide range of general business as well as industry specific support services to help funeral director members focus on their core objective - meeting the needs of the bereaved.
The NAFD has representation in Parliament as the Cross Party Parliamentary Group for the Funeral and Bereavement Services.
Click here to visit the NAFD website |
Established in 1930 The Birmingham Funeral Directors Guild (BFDG) was set up to promote a closer working relationship between the independent, family run funeral directing businesses in the Birmingham area.
It represents local Funeral Directors with regard to all local issues relating to the running of the profession and helps to maintain the high standards the public have come to expect from its members.
Most of the current member firms are still the existing family businesses that founded "The Guild" over 75 years ago. Click here to visit the BFDG website |
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