Green, Eco-Friendly Funerals from £4,398 inclusive

Not everyone wants a traditional funeral. An increasing number of families and individuals are concerned about the environment and wish to have an ecologically friendly service…and it may surprise you to find out that it can be less expensive to have a woodland burial than many people think. There are a couple of excellent green burial sites in our area and we can give you advice about these as well as offering a range of beautiful eco-coffins. Green funerals are often very lovely events conducted in natural and beautiful surroundings.

Natural, Eco-Friendly Coffins

All of our eco-coffins are made with sustainable natural materials or recycled cardboard. Natural coffins are very beautiful and have a completely different effect on many people than traditional coffins. With their gentler and softer aesthetic some people report a greater sense of peace in saying goodbye to their loved one.

Each coffin is fully lined with natural fibres and comes complete with a soft shroud and all fittings.

Bamboo

The least expensive of the natural fibres, Bamboo coffins offer a simple, light design in both traditional and rounded styles.

Bamboo Round
£490
Bamboo Traditional
£490
Bamboo Lattice Round
£560
Bamboo Garland
£510
Banana

Available in both Coffin and Casket styles, Banana fibre is a slightly heavier material than Bamboo offering a stronger weave and greater tonal variation. There are also various colour options for the Caskets.

Banana Hazelfield
£690
Banana Casket Ebony
£720
Banana Bridgemoor
£690
Banana Casket Cerise
£720
Cardboard

Offered in Manila, White and Woodgrain our cardboard coffins present a simple elegance with the least impact on the environment. Cardboard coffins are very suitable for burial but are also an excellent choice for cremation as they create far less CO2 than any other coffin material.

Manila Cardboard
£390
White Cardboard
£400
Woodgrain Cardboard
£440
Decorated Cardboard

If you like the simplicity and environmental friendliness of a cardboard coffin but want a little more individuality then please see our range of Decorated Cardboard coffins.

Bluebells
£599
Butterfly
£599
Daffodils
£599
Seaside Sunset
£599
English Willow

All natural coffins are relatively light but Willow is a little heavier and structurally stronger than Bamboo and Banana coffins. Our English Willow coffins are available in white, green and brown trim with colour options available.

English Willow Brown
£980
Double Rainbow
£1,240
English Willow Round Green
£980
English Willow Light
£980
Willow

Willow coffins, whilst offering less tonal variation than English Willow, does present a very polished and elegant finish. Our Willow line also offers the unique “Pod” design which we feel is even more impressive in real life than it appears in the pictures.

Willow Cromer Light
£792
Willow Pod Light
£844
Willow Highsted
£748
Willow Pod
£783
Willow Eco 2

The Willow Eco 2 coffins, in our opinion, offer the sharpest lines with their very tightly woven design style. The effect is an uncomplicated and simple beauty that is gentle on the eye

Chelington Brown
£844
Broadwich light
£844
Willow Kingsted
£980
Willow Stockberry Light
£980
Child & Infant

Offering a natural beauty in a range of material with a soft and gentle lining for the most difficult of goodbyes.

Banana Baby
£0
Pandanus Baby
£0
Willow Baby
£0
Pandanus

The Pandanus coffins present a two tonal, twisted weave that leans towards a sense of hemp or rope. For some this creates a slightly more nautical feel to the coffins. Up close these are very beautiful.

Pandanus Traditional
£650
Pandanus Round
650
Pandanus Ringlemere
£690
Pandanus Oatydown
£690
Paulownia

The Paulownia is a reasonably priced real wood coffin that is simple and minimalist in design.

Paulownia Wood
£600
More eco-coffins are available
Get in touch for our full range of eco-coffins

Testimonials

To all the staff at Penrose Funerals

Thank you for the compassion, care and support you gave to our family. We really appreciate everything you did for the funeral of David Ray.

Your kindness is appreciated so much

Kind Regards

Kevin and Lorna Russell - July 2022

I really can’t thank the team at Penrose enough for the beautiful funeral they managed for my dear husband Fred. Especially Nathan for helping us plan the day with such care and dignity.

I met Nathan’s dad Jeremy for the first time when he arrived with the cortege to collect us from home. Immediately I felt totally at ease with this charming charismatic gentleman leading the service perfectly from begining to end.

Thank you so much

from Georgie

Georgina Bateman - February 2020

To Jeremy, Nathan, Brendon and team,

We just wanted to say to all of you a big thank you for the respect and dignity you showed for our late father Donald. You are all very special people which showed for our father and on previous times for our late mother Patricia and my lovely Mick.

Love

Linda & the MacDonald Family - April 2026

To Jeremy and Nathan,

Thank you so much for making what was a very difficult time for us as a family a very beautify send off for our beloved Annie. Thank you also for the children’s keepsake necklaces, they are lovely and will be cherished forever.

Very best wishes

Gary, Rafe, Hattie, Dixie, Philippa and all of Annie’s family - March 2023

To all at Penrose Funerals,

From all our family, thank you for the care and organisation for Ronald Steel’s Funeral on 15th Jan. You all did a fantastic job and it made things a lot easier.

Best wishes

Lucy McIntyre - January 2021

To everyone at Penrose, Thank you for your care, compassion and dignity in what is a difficult time arranging our mother’s funeral.

Samantha Allington, Sarah Duncan and Suzannah Duncan - August 2018

To Nathan, Jeremy and all @ Penrose,

Just a note to thank you for the kindness and support that you gave us at what was a very diffucult time. We were really pleased with how everything went and think that mum would have been too.

With sincere thanks

Karen and Hayley, family of Carole Gl****ll - Aug 2025

Jeremy, I just wanted to thank you and your team so very much for making mum’s celebration of life so special.

Despite the awful weather and road and rail problems on the day your team were kind, considerate, majestic and splendid throughout.
My family and I are most grateful to you all.

Kind regards,
Amanda
Mandy B - June 2021
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