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Serving the community since 1939, helping the bereaved. Within a Grade II listed deco chapel & maintaining award winning gardens of remembrance

18/01/2026

🎶 Have you made a New Year’s resolution to do something you truly enjoy? 🎶

Why not try singing with others?
Join our friendly 'Melody Misfits' Choir at Mortlake Crematorium

🗓 Tuesday 27th January
⏰ 6:00–6:45pm

Singing together is uplifting, free, and open to everyone. We sing along to well-known songs chosen by group members, so there’s no pressure and no experience needed — just turn up and enjoy the music.
✨ Singing reduces stress
✨ Builds connection
✨ Everyone is welcome

If you feel nervous or unsure about joining, please get in touch — we’re very happy to answer any questions or talk through any concerns.

For those who are grieving, being with others and sharing music can offer gentle support and a sense of connection. You don’t have to do it alone 💛

We’d love to welcome you.

For bereavement support

17/12/2025

FIRST CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN

It’s my first Christmas in heaven,
I’ve been dreading it all through the year.
Knowing that you will be lonely,
lost to the joy and the cheer.

I’ve been sending sweet robins to find you,
and feathers have brought you my love.
I’ve been whispering secrets to raindrops,
hoping you’ll hear me above.

It’s my first Christmas in heaven,
it’s a wonderful place to exist…
And the only sadness that finds me,
is wishing I wasn’t so missed.

Because if you look closely, you’ll see me,
in every small thing that you do.
I’m the joy that sneaks in through the window,
when you stop to admire the view.

I’m the laughter that gasps from your sadness
when your soul frees itself from this pain.
I’m the comfort that warms through your blanket
as you wrap yourself up from the rain.

It’s my first Christmas in heaven,
and they told me that this would be tough.
All I can do, is remind you, you’re loved
and I’ll pray, every day, it’s enough.

Donna Ashworth

(I wrote this by request and I hope it brings comfort to anyone who needs it tonight).

13/12/2025

Our Service for Babies and Children is taking place tomorrow.

Parents, families, and loved ones are warmly welcome to attend. The cremation does not need to have taken place at Mortlake Crematorium to join us.

If you need additional support, the following charities are available to help:
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You are not alone.

07/12/2025

✨ Christmas Remembrance Service – Today at Mortlake Crematorium ✨

We warmly invite you to join us for our Adults Christmas Remembrance Service today, Sunday 7th December 2025 at 2:00pm in our Chapel.

The service will include beautiful Christmas carols, readings and poems.

We will also read aloud the names of the people you are remembering during the service (you can provide names as you enter the chapel).

After the service, please join us for mince pies and non-alcoholic mulled wine.

For those unable to attend in person, the service will be available to watch online.

Watch online: https://watch.obitus.com
Username: gaxi1936
Password: 256161

We hope this service brings comfort, reflection and peace during the Christmas season. ✨

For Grief support

06/12/2025

🌿 Thank You for Walking/Running With Us 🌿

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our annual Walk/Run during Grief Awareness Week. This year’s theme, Growing with Grief, truly came to life as we walked and ran side by side — a community united in remembrance, honouring those who have died and supporting one another through every step. 💚

Special thanks to Claire for the incredible homemade cakes & cookies, and to Sam for bringing the delicious sausage and vegetable rolls from — they were very much appreciated!

If you or someone you know is needing support, please remember that grief support is available at .

Thank you for helping us create a space of connection, compassion, and remembrance. 🌼

05/12/2025

See you tomorrow morning (Saturday 6th)at 10am at the Crematorium for our annual walk/run.

03/12/2025

We welcome you to write a message of love and remembrance on a dove tag and place it on the Christmas Trees in our cloisters.

Donations for the dove tags go to , supporting families through baby loss. ✨🤍

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02/12/2025

One of the hardest parts of grief is how people tiptoe around the name of the person who’s died. They worry it will upset you, as though saying the name will reopen a wound you’ve somehow managed to close.

But anyone who has lived with grief knows the opposite is true. Their name is already with you, in your thoughts, your memories, your everyday life. What hurts far more is when others pretend that person never existed, as if love and loss can be tucked away.

Grief Awareness Week is a reminder that speaking their name is not something to fear. It’s one of the ways we honour who they were and how much they still mean. And if you’d like to, this space can be one place to do that.

I’ll start by sharing a name of someone I’m remembering this week, and you can follow if you wish:

This week I remember my friend Susanna. Vibrant, loving, funny, original, beautiful and brilliant. We had such s simple and deeply loving friendship. 💔 I never had enough time with her and I’m devastated there is no more time to spend with her.

So if it feels right, share the name of someone you love who has died in the comments, just their name, or a word or two about who they were. Both are enough.

When we speak their names, here and everyday, something shifts. We feel connected. Seen. And we remember that grief isn’t a sign of weakness but of love that continues.

The focus this year of grief awareness week is ‘growing with grief’ we are more likely to grow if we are met where are at, and you say their name.

I look forward to reading the names you share.

Love, Julia ❤️ Xx

27/11/2025

✨ What a fantastic evening at the Teddington Lights Switch-On! ✨
The Mortlake Crematorium Melody Misfit Choir had a wonderful time singing Christmas songs and spreading festive cheer.

A huge thank-you to all our members who came along — and an extra-special thanks to Holmes and Daughters for inviting us! 🎄💫

If you’d like to join our friendly choir, everyone is welcome. We next get together on Tuesday, January 27th at 6pm. All singing abilities welcome — just bring your enthusiasm! 🎶❤️

Hope to see you there!

For bereavement support

24/11/2025

🎶 Melody Misfits Choir – Come Sing With Us! 🎶

We’re gathering tomorrow at 6pm in our chapel at Mortlake Crematorium for an uplifting evening of singing.

✨ No matter your voice or experience – all singing abilities are welcome.
✨ Singing together is proven to lift your mood, reduce stress, and bring smiles.
✨ No fee – just bring your voice and a love of music!

Come along, join in, and let’s fill the chapel with song. 💜

13/11/2025

💛 Supporting 💛

We were honoured to welcome representatives from The Compassionate Friends to Mortlake Crematorium, where we presented them with a cheque for £5,000.

This donation was made possible through the kindness of bereaved families who gave permission for metals, such as hip and knee implants to be recycled through the metals recycling scheme ♻️

The Compassionate Friends Charity provides peer support for bereaved parents, adult siblings and grandparents.

Thank you to every family whose compassion continues to make a difference. 💛

07/11/2025

You’re invited to our annual Remembrance Service for Babies and Children.

🕊 Sunday 14th December 2025, 11:30am – Our Chapel

A peaceful space to honour the babies and children who left us too soon. We’ll say their names, light candles, share poems, readings, and music.

Would you like to contribute a poem, song, please contact us by 28th November.

🌐 For those joining from home; watch.obitus.com
Username: toho1906
Password: 883807

✨ Christmas Keepsakes ✨
Created with love by Pooja & Dillan in memory of their daughter Amani, each handmade ornament is personalised with your child’s initial — a small gift of peace and remembrance.

Please contact us if you would like a keepsake for your baby/child.

💛 Together we remember, honour & hold them close. 💛

Address

Kew Meadow Path
Kingston Upon Thames
TW94EN

Telephone

+442088768056

Website

http://www.mortlakecrematorium.org/

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