Our offices will be closed on Monday 19th September 2022

Stepping up from his previous role of Business Development Manager, Gary takes on responsibility for all commercial aspects of Mears Family Funerals, Mears & Jackson, Mears Repatriation, Nationwide Memorials and Memorial Centre.

Read our article about repatriation in the latest edition of Farewells magazine

Online Memorial quote and ordering system wins prestigious industry award

Mears Family Funerals set to open in centre of Aylesbury

The Mears Family Funerals brand of low cost, high quality funerals is coming to Walthamstow.

The opening hours for our branches over the Christmas and New Year period.

Mears Repatriation features in the June 2020 issue of SAIF Insight talking about repatriations and the COVID-19 pandemic.

An update from our repatriation specialist team

Expert repatriation advice for UK funeral directors from our team of international funeral directors.

Mears Family Funerals and Mears & Jackson take delivery of brand new ceremonial fleet.

The new Mears Family Funerals branch is the ninth to be opened by the Steven Mears Group

The opening hours for our branches over the Christmas and New Year period.

Advice on registering a death and what information you will need.

Advice on what to do if someone dies overseas

Quite an involved procedure for us to return Cremated Remains from Australia to the UK.

This week we have helped a family repatriate a family member from Cyprus to a local Funeral director in Edinburgh. Our Client lived in London so they were particularly concerned that we had reliable staff in Scotland to carry out Customs clearance and onwards transportation.

Opened by Chris and Sophie Jackson

We are pleased to announce that we have now published our new Client Repatriation Brochure Funerals Without Frontiers

We are off to be one of the many exhibitors at the Funeral Times Trade show in Ireland this week. If you are a Funeral Director why not visit us to see what we could do for your company in the world of international repatriations. As is custom we will have a number of new processes and products to entice our Irish Partners.

Above is our Mercedes Hearse on a recent memorial service in North London prior to returning a family member back to Ireland (London - Cork)

Thank you once again.

An excellent service provided at a difficult time. Many thanks. Kindest regards This is the latest comment from one of our Clients with regard to a repatriation to Ireland.

To further reflect the significance of our Head Office being based in London we have secured our www.mears.london domain name. Now to contact Mears Repatriation directly in London email info@mears.london You've got to love a London based business!

A sneak preview of our new advertisement for our repatriation service to Larnaca, Cyprus. This will start to appear in relevant news papers across the UK.

We were approached by a Client to have their Father repatriation to Cairo, Egypt on Saturday this weekend. The request was to have the Deceased in Cairo for early Tuesday morning for burial. The Deceased was of Christian Faith. On Monday morning by 8.30 we had effected the removal from a hospital in London and our Embalmer was on hand to prepare for the repatriation. In the meantime our Client had registered the death and we had applied for the Out of England. The Coroner issued this within an hour! A car was sent to the Egyptian Embassy to collect their representative so that he could witness the sealing of the coffin and issue the travel permit. A flight was also booked and confirmed within two hours.

New to us - we have today delivered our first repatriation via our new partners at Birmingham Airport. We have five partner Funeral Directors in and around the Birmingham area, so allowing us to give our Clients a real local service. This repatriation was with Turkish Airways to Iran.

Mears repatriation are please to announce that we now have a new Twitter account @ukrepatriation. Follow us and see what's going on in our world as we help over 250 families a year. Not only directly but also through our ever growing network of Funeral Directors.

What a weekend! As the MD of Mears Repatriation I don't generally get to perform the actual hard work that my Operatives carry out on a day-to-day basis. But, due to Holidays and location of my staff at the weekend I carried out the Repatriation of a Pakistan National within 36 hours of their death this weekend. The family had managed to register the death within five hours and it was then up to me to get the Coroners permission to remove from the UK.

Thank you again for all the care that was shown to the ****** family. Maggie Mackay Funeral Director/Embalmer Delta Funeral Home

Pilots at Lufthansa Airlines are due to hold a three-day strike from 2200 GMT on 1 April, their union has announced. The strike, over pay and working conditions, is likely to cause the cancellation of hundreds of flights. It will affect Lufthansa passenger services at all airports in Germany, as well as Lufthansa Cargo worldwide.

Our new branch in the tranquil setting of Warrington Cemetery Lodge is now open. We cannot believe that we got our hands on this fantastic property. Chris and his team have worked very hard over the last few months to achieve this finish and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them.

Over the past few weeks we have realised that some of our clients have not been given the opportunity to consider fully the choice of the coffin. So we have just launched our new PDF style brochure that will be emailed to every client with their standard quotation. As this is a PDF brochure we intend to listen to our clients feed back and we may change the coffins offered.

So today we completed a repatriation to Port Harcourt in Nigeria which in its self is not news. But we then arranged to have the Deceased transported to Onitsha by road, which as can be seen above is about 200km away, for our clients.

So, clearing out some old files this week and found this lovely old photo. I think that this is a photo of my Grandad bearing at a funeral in the 1930's. As a third generation Funeral Director it's great to have this record. It's recognised throughout the trade that both my Grandads were well known Funeral Directors. One in Westminster and one in and around the Clapham area in South West London.

So this is our first blog for Mears Repatriation. We are going to try to let our clients know something about us and what goes on during a 'normal' day at the office, in the work shop and on the road. If there is anything that you would like us to write about please let us know and we will try to be as informative as possible.