Tender Funerals Illawarra And Sydney - A Community Undertaking

Contact us:
4276 1611
Our Premises:
99 Military Road, Port Kembla
Visit our webpage:
www. tenderfunerals.org
Email us at: info@tenderfunerals.org

Tender Funerals is reimagining the way in which we deal with death and empowering communities to ensure that end of life processes are meaningful, authentic and affordable.

Tender Funerals is an initiative of the Port Kembla Community Project which will offer a funeral service that is affordable and highly personalised, to support healthy bereavement.

A small number of big companies dominate the $900 million a year funeral industry and the average cost of a funeral in Australia is around $7000. Currently, people on a low income have great difficulty paying for a funeral, often going into significant debt as a result. Yet the availability of low cost funerals remains limited, particularly in rural and regional areas. This is despite the fact that the end-of-life procedures are an essential service that should be available to all, regardless of income. Tender Funerals will offer affordable and flexible services and a transparent fee structure, to minimise the financial impact of funeral care. It will counter the idea that the amount of money spent on a funeral is a reflection of the amount a person was loved.

Positive funeral care experiences assist grief, loss and social isolation. People want greater choice to reflect values and cultures, transparency and support. They want more information to understand rights, responsibilities and choices at end of life and after death. Tender Funerals will offer personalised services that demystify death and dying, and involve a model of community support, to assist healthy bereavement. This will include unique offerings of information and support, funeral services that celebrate and acknowledge both a person’s death and their life, and support and facilitation of active participation and community support in funeral-care. We will develop and implement a community development model to provide ongoing support and community awareness around death and dying.