Some fees and charges for funerals and cremations in York are set to rise from April.
Increases approved in City of York Council’s budget will see the cost of an adult cremation with a 25-30 minute service rise by £57 to £1,197 – or 5%.
A simple cremation at York Crematorium’s Ebor Chapel with a 20 minute service, two pieces of music and less than 20 mourners will cost £924 from April, £44 more.
Fees for a cremation without a service at the Bishopthorpe crematorium are set to stay at the current £620.
Cremations for still born babies, children up to age 18 and care leavers under 25 will remain free.
Intering ashes is set to cost £5 more from April, a total price of £105.
Costs for scattering ashes are set to rise by £20 to £170 for those from external sources that at non-witnessed.
Extra fees for ashes strewn or interred by appointment are set to rise by £3, to £53.
A new additional charge for ashes scattered or interred by appointment on Saturdays has been set at £100.
It will cost £20 to seal and send ashes abroad by custom letter from April.
The use of the Ebor Chapel for a memorial service will cost £28 more, increasing to £578.
Exhuming a body is set to cost £12 more from April when charges will rise to £261.
DVD recordings of services will be priced at £79, up by £14, while live webcasts with a 28-day download link will cost £66, £4 more.
A single photo for visual tributes will now cost £10 after previously being free, with slideshows going up by £7 to £55 and professional tributes by £5 to £92.
New themed tributes will be available for £95 from April.
Family-made tributes are set to go up by £4 to £36, with physical and downloadable copies for keepsakes both rising by £2, to £34 and £15 respectively.
Fees of £25, £95 and £130 for late submissions of visual extras, a video book and memory box respectively will be charged from April.
General costs for extra work for visual tributes are set to go up by £2 to £28.
Services for under 18s including a webcast, single photo, basic slide show or music tribute will remain free.
The cost of a cardboard urn is set to rise by £2 to £23, with polytainer costs also going up by £2 to £26.
Baby urns are set to cost £49 from April, £3 more than current prices, with metal ones set to go up by £4 to £68.
Wooden caskets will cost £5 more, increasing to £93.
Plaques and memorials at the crematorium, including bronze and arboria ones, vases, discs and benches, are all set to increase in price, with hikes ranging from £12 to £86.
Book of remembrance entries varying from two lines to an eight-line entry with a coat of arms will cost between £115 and £390, with increases ranging from £6 to £19.
Burying an adult in a grave at Dringhouses Cemetery is set to cost £52 more, £1,101 from April, but it will remain free for children up to 12.
Intering ashes at the cemetery will cost £330 from April, £16 more, with an up to four person plot with 50 years of exclusivity priced at £589, £28 more.
It will cost £261 to exhume cremated remains, an increase of £24 compared to current rates.
The price of a new headstone permit is set to be £216, £10 more, with additional inscriptions to existing ones going up by £6, to £118.
It will cost £1 more to mark out a grave, £30, and the removal of a memorial prior to interment by a stonemason is set to go up by £6, to £132.
