H.J Newman Funeral Directors Slough

We sadly lost my dear wife recently and we engaged H.J. Newman Funeral Directors to help support our family through the funeral process. From the start to finish, they're excellent. We'd especially like to call out Ben for walking us through the initial consultation, Tina & Barbara for answering all our queries and also Mark who helped support us through this most difficult time.
The team ensure all religious customs were accommodated with respect to the Sikh faith. Thank you again, to the team at Newmans. You've helped us immensely at such a sad time in our lives.

At a very difficult time you need family to support you - H.J Newman are a family business that understand this and deliver support in the most compassionate way. Their service was exemplary and their advice on matters that I was not familiar with was both accurate and extremely helpful. Thank you for caring.

My Aunt left instructions for her funeral to be undertaken by H.J Newman. She certainly made a good choice. Tina and the team were very supportive and we could not have had better guidance for arranging our first funeral. Everything was explained comprehensively, contacts were given for 'order of service', and for the lady, Pauline, that was to lead the service. All were excellent. Thank you H.J.Newman

Newmans, thank you. You all have been nothing short of life saving to help us through the most difficult time of our lives. Tina, Ben, Barbra…you held our hands through the process and between Mark and Sunny, the day couldn’t have been just how we wanted and needed it. They truly went above and beyond for us. Thank you for bringing our brother to you as soon as you could and allowing us to arrange the Superman funeral my brother deserved. We 100% recommend Newmans. Thank you again ❤️

Great service, really considerate and compassionate during a bereavement. Always willing to advise and guide and very accomodating to our requirements. All representatives we met were highly professional.

H J Newman were recommended by a family member. We are so glad they did. My mum in laws funeral arrangements were handled with sensitivity, support and compassion. Barbara was so kind and helpful. We felt so looked after as she guided us through the process. We are so grateful to you all for helping us get everything under control at such a difficult time. My husband also was so grateful to your duty officer who was really helpful. Thank you.

We are very grateful to Newmans funeral service for the sensitivity to the family and respect they showed towards our late father. My fathers funeral was smooth and he had a wonderful farewell. As we are Sikhs Newmans were fully aware of the final rites that were appropriate to our faith. They even managed to find a wonderful substitute to a track that we wanted played in the crematorium. Given the circumstances we had a very smooth experience.

I never really imagined I would review a funeral directors, or that there would be much variation between different providers but on both counts I was wrong.

We visited 3 companies in Slough. Our first stop was Co-op (they had collected the body as arranged by the police, I guess they get a lot of business because of this...) anyway, they were dreadful, patronising and pushing their most expensive package hard by pointing out they wouldn't have pall bearers carry the coffin on any cheaper packages and would just push the coffin in on a trolley, they also couldn't offer any slots for several weeks. The second company were fine, kind and helpful but only offered a couple of set packages. Then we arrived at Newmans.

The woman we dealt with (apologies, I don't remember her name) was lovely. She explained that we were free to pick and choose each and every element we wanted in the funeral with no pressure to add in extras to bump up the cost, we were provided with clear and easy to understand prices for everything so we could make informed choices and they were helpful in recommending suppliers for flowers and order of service stationery but also went to great lengths to reassure us there was no obligation and we were welcome to use our suppliers of choice if we wished.

They liaised with our chosen minister and took care of everything to make sure everything was in place for the day and they then carried out the agreed service with utmost professionalism.

It's not the sort of purchase you can really be enthusiastic about, but I would recommend Newmans wholeheartedly. The price was competitive but the service was miles ahead of the competition. They made a difficult situation as good as it could have been.