GFS Funerals

11/10/2025

As part of Heritage Open Days 2025, lovely weather for the vintage tour from Marshall Mills to Roundhay

26/04/2025

St. George's Day celebrations tomorrow. Parade starts from Morley Town Hall 1130am and will be a great family event, as usual. All welcome.

21/04/2023

Calling all knitters! During the Covid-19 pandemic our Mortuary team were providing pairs of knitted hearts to bring some comfort to bereaved families.

One heart is given to the patient and the other heart is taken by their family or loved one, this lovely gesture is still being offered to bereaved families.

We are close to running out of the hearts that were previously donated, so we are asking the keen knitters amongst you for your help to get knitting! Please send your pairs of hearts to:

Knitted Heart Donations
Mortuary
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF

At GFS we are dedicated to providing excellent service to the families of Leeds,Harrogate and the su

16/11/2022

It is with sadness that we say farewell to our brother in law Martin Amys.
Martin was a loving husband of Lilian and Dad to John. He will be a greatly missed Grandad.
The Funeral service will take place at Armley cemetery, Friday 25th at 10am.
Friends please accept this intimation.

09/09/2022

Thank you your majesty Queen Elizabeth II for over 70 glorious years. RIP
Long live the King!

31/07/2022

A big welcome to our new parish priest, Lisa Senior from the Christian community of Middleton. Really enjoyed the licensing service at St. Mary's and the chance to chat afterwards.

29/05/2022

With so many personal, family and friends' funeral services to attend recently, the positive side being that we can all now look at how to celebrate the unique lives of our loved ones. This plan may have changed since the pandemic. Indeed, those who weren't planning on a get together after the service may now want to celebrate and vice versa.
Everyone is different and my best friend was dispersed over Filey Brigg, followed by amusement arcade then fish and chips and ice creams.
What's your 'best goodbye'?

13/02/2022

With school half term holidays approaching, we are looking forward to helping deliver the food parcels for Kayleigh Maughan's Ending Holiday Hunger project. This lady has supported so many families in need and is non- judgemental.
If you are able to help, look up her fb page+dm. to help!

17/12/2021

Such a privilege to be able to help out delivering the food and gift Christmas parcels to those in need. Kayleigh Maughan's project 'Ending Holiday Hunger' great local cause.

15/12/2021

Today, it is with great sadness that we learn of the death of our esteemed colleague Neil Clarkson.
This is the end of an era and we will no longer benefit from Neil's kindness and humour and, indeed, his conscientiousness and professionalism.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all his family and friends, in whom he included his employees.
Rest in peace, good fellow.

03/09/2019

Dear GFG and more importantly natural undertaking. Thank god we are not the only independent funeral director wondering what is the FSCSR and where does it get its legitimacy from. I too find it incredible that the main parties on the group are those companies who still refuse to be open and transparent about their pricing to the public, funeral partners, coop, dignity. Also if it is not a government authorised/ created body what power / rite does it have to sit in judgement on independent funeral directors.
It was interesting reading the piece from Mr Shand Smith`s interview in the SAIF magazine.

"What action will make the single biggest difference to consumers’ experience?
For me, there are three key outcomes.
Firstly, an agreed set of standards across the sector. (Those of us who are in the NAFD or SAIF have a set of inspected standards already.)
Secondly, to get the message out there and make sure consumers know which funeral directors are operating to those agreed standards. ( Again those funeral directors displaying SAIF and NAFD logo assure the clients of this)
Lastly, greater transparency in terms of pricing and service information – make sure consumers know what to expect and are able to compare properly." ( Ironically the main parties on the steering groups still refuse to display their full pricing structures on any of the websites they provide.).
Why have the National funeral providers, suddenly become interested in openness and transparency. What do they have to fear from the outcome of the properly appointed CMA investigation.

As today's meeting of the Funeral Service Consumer Standards Review Working Group B (the Transparency Working Group) gets underway, we are delighted to share the thoughts of another respondent to the invitation to comment issued by the FSCSR on the Friday before the Bank Holiday weekend. Today's con...