For a professional and compassionate service by a long established family business.

Having been established in the Bournemouth area for over eighty years, our professional experience has become invaluable to all our client families. Our quiet, efficient and caring service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year to help families deal with what is all to often an unfamiliar situation. Continuity is so important to the funeral business. Head & Wheble is now run by the founder’s grandson Simon Head, his wife Catherine and sons James and Robert, and this strong family influence is reflected in our services.

Our staff are available to give personal and discrete service at any time of the day or night, at weekends and on public holidays. Once our services are engaged, everything can be left in our care, giving peace of mind to you and dignity to the deceased.

For more details and information please click on the web address to the right, or else call our 24 Hour Telephone Service on 01202 551190.

Funeral Planning

Pre-planning and Pre-paying

Pre-planning gives you the peace of mind of knowing that the arrangements you particularly want, will be conducted sensibly, in dignified respect to your wishes. Bereaved relatives have grief and anger to contend with. Adding the administrative burden of arranging the funeral to their confused and emotional state may lead to mistakes being made and unnecessary costs being incurred.

Pre-payment plans are designed to provide an opportunity for those people who wish to make arrangements for a funeral in advance.
Head & Wheble Funeral Directors & Monumental Masons offer and accept all of the pre-payment plans available.

Pre-paying now will save you, your family or your estate a great deal of money. Bought now at today's prices, the Funeral Director's cost are guaranteed no matter when it is needed or how much the costs of a funeral have risen in the mean time.

With a Head & Wheble Funeral Plan, bought now at today's prices or paid for in convenient monthly instalments, the quality of the service provided by the Funeral Director in respect of your planned wishes will not cost your family one penny more -whenever it is ultimately needed. Pre-payments are arranged through ‘Golden Leaves’ which is fully regulated by the FSA.

Funeral Services

Our basic Funeral Service is offered in accordance with The National Association of Funeral Directors, of which we are prominent local members, code of practice. We offer a basic simple service with the following specifications; the provision of all the Funeral Director's services and attending to all the necessary arrangements, staff, a simple coffin together with the transfer of the deceased to our private chapels of rest and the care of the deceased prior to the Funeral Service, the provision of a Luxury Hearse to convey the deceased to one of the local crematoria or cemeteries. We can place death notices, obituary notices and acknowledgements in local and national newspapers on your behalf.

We can arrange many different types of service; religious, non-religious and humanist, which are conducted by Simon Head. Head & Wheble are also able to offer woodland burials and scattering of ashes. Simply let us know your wishes and we will do our best to fulfill them.

We can also arrange funeral teas and wakes from 10 people up to 400 people if required.

Memorials

Head & Wheble provide a large selection of headstones in granite, white marble, purbeck stone, green slate and nabresena. In addition, we can provide memorials such as; headstone and kerbset, marble book and kerbset, covered slab with kerbset and many others.

The prices include the memorial design as illustrated and all fixing arrangements on suitable foundations at the cemetery. (Except where walling is required).
Additional costs are for the inscription and lettering + V.A.T on the memorial and inscription.

Vehicle Fleet

Our Limousines will provide comfortable seating for SIX PERSONS. Please let us know as soon as possible if extra or special transport is required. We have a fleet of Mercedes vehicles. We will be pleased to help in any way we can. We can ensure that arrangements be made to meet people from the train or bus station.

Floral tributes

Flowers…. The one thing in life that can say anything on any occasion. Never is this more appropriate than at a time of bereavement.

Flowers give you the opportunity to say without words what you really feel. In fact flowers at a funeral are often the most powerful way you can express your emotions.

This is why we have created the exclusive Floral and Sympathy Collection, a range of arrangements such as funeral wreaths, funeral sprays and name tributes, that offer dignity, style and elegance.

Choose the design you like, talk to us about colour harmonies and messages and leave the rest to us, confident that the flowers you have selected will reflect your feelings.

Funeral Flowers require special attention as they are prepared. They are always hand delivered by the florist a couple of hours prior to the funeral. The Florist will work as closely with Head and Wheble as possible to ensure that your wreath tribute is as vibrant looking at the actual funeral service as it is when it leaves the shop.

We cover the whole Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch area. Please contact us on the details above, and we will do our best to fulfill your wishes.

Thank yous

“Thank you for all your help in arranging Elsie’s funeral. It was a comfort for all of us at this difficult time to know that Elsie was in such a caring environment. “

Alan

‘We would like to say “Thank” you to Simon for his kindness and professionalism, especially coming out on a Sunday to make the arrangements. “

Andy and Paula

“Thank you for making such a sad day more bearable. It will not be forgotten.”

Liz Tanya and Family

“Thanking you on behalf of Douglas, for helping to make his passing more bearable with all our help in arrangements needed. “

Doreen Shearer and family

“Thank you very much for providing such professional funeral services at the Bournemouth Crematorium, for our dearly departed, Clara. Your help and guidance was very much appreciated by us at this difficult time. We’d particularly like to thank Simon, who put us at ease, steering us to the necessary decisions to be made, in a calm and friendly manner. “

George, Sue and Tina

“Thank you for helping make my dad’s funeral so memorable and so quick! Thanks for everything. “

Hayley

“Just a line to say thank you very much for your excellent service, both during and after my late mother’s passing. We all felt very well cared for. “

Wendy and Anthony

“Thank you on behalf of all the family for the time and care you gave us during our recent bereavement. It meant such a lot to us, that you safely delivered Dad to Ireland, especially in the snow and ice!”

Helen, Anne, Stephen and Paul

“On behalf of my family, friends and myself I wish to thank you for helping make Friday a very memorable day, and one that went so smoothly.”

Derek