Work
East Durham Funeral Service
A calm, clear website for a family funeral director that has cared for East Durham families since 1971, with simple editing so the team can keep everyday details up to date.
eastdurhamfuneralservice.co.uk
- Client
- East Durham Funeral Service
- Industry
- Funeral services
- Pages
- 50+
- Launched
- November 2026
Overview
East Durham Funeral Service is a family owned funeral director. Barrie Lee opened the first funeral home in Horden in 1971, and today the family looks after people from four funeral homes in Peterlee, Horden, Easington Colliery and Trimdon Grange.
The firm needed a website that matched the care it gives in person: calm and easy to read at a difficult time, and clear about what to do when someone dies, what each funeral involves and what it costs.
What we did
We designed and built a new site from the ground up, with the 24 hour phone line on every page, a guide to what to do when someone dies, a page for each funeral service, and a page for each funeral home with its address, opening times and directions. Area pages cover the towns and villages the team serves.
The Standardised Price List is linked across the site, and recent posts from the firm’s Facebook Page appear on the funeral notices page, so families can find funeral details without leaving the site. Through a simple editor, the team updates FAQs, office details and opening times, team members, Trustpilot figures, the price list and a temporary notice banner themselves.
Old page addresses from the previous site redirect to their new pages, so existing links keep working. Headings are set in Lora with Nunito Sans for body text, and the site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages.
The outcome
East Durham Funeral Service now has a website that reflects the family firm behind it. Families can call the 24 hour line from any page, find their nearest funeral home, read what happens next and see prices before they pick up the phone.
The team can keep everyday details current themselves, without waiting on a developer for routine changes.
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