About Kingdom Funerals

Kingdom Funerals is a free directory of Fife funeral directors with verified prices. Every figure on the site is taken from the firm's own Standardised Price List — the document the law requires them to publish — and checked against a second source on the same day. The site does not book funerals, take commission, or sell anything. It lists firms, prices, and phone numbers. The choice of who you ring is yours.

Why this site exists

Since 16 September 2021, every UK funeral director has been required by the Competition and Markets Authority's Funerals Market Investigation Order to publish a Standardised Price List. The intent of the rule is price transparency. The reality on the ground in Fife is uneven: some firms publish a clear PDF; some bury it three clicks deep on a website; some publish it only at the premises in print; a few are still figuring out where to put it.

Even where the SPL is published well, no public tool aggregates them regionally. A grieving Fife resident at 11pm on the day a parent has died cannot, today, see a single page that lists the prices of every Fife funeral director side by side. They can search firm by firm, click PDF after PDF, and try to set the formatting side by side in their head. Kingdom is the page that does it for them.

The wedge is the verb. A respectful directory shows; a price-comparison aggregator hypes the act of choosing. Kingdom shows.

How the data is verified

Every price on every card is dual-sourced. The first source is the funeral director's own Standardised Price List — usually a PDF on the firm's website, or a printed copy obtained on request. The second source is one of: the Funeral Guide listing for the firm, the National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors entry, the firm's Facebook business page where they cross-publish, or a phone call to the office to confirm a published figure.

The verification process is operated by a two-pass review: a first extraction pass reads the source and records the three CMA-standardised products (attended funeral, direct cremation, unattended burial) into the dataset; a second verification pass cross-checks every figure against the second source on the same day, flags any mismatch, and either resolves the mismatch with a third source or drops the figure with a note on the firm's card.

Every card on the directory carries the publication date of the source SPL and the verification date — visible to the family, not buried in metadata. If a figure has not been re-verified in 90 days, the card carries a softer ink colour. After 180 days, the card carries an inline note: "Confirm current price with the firm before deciding."

Independent firms and chains

Some Fife funeral directors are independent — single-firm businesses, often family-run for two or three generations. Others are branches of a national or regional chain (Co-op Funeralcare, Dignity, Scotmid Co-op). Independents tend to have more staff continuity but smaller out-of-hours capacity. Chains have larger logistics and pre-paid plan offerings but more staff turnover. Neither is better than the other. The right firm depends on what matters most to the family.

Co-op pricing — a note on staleness

Eight of the eleven Fife Co-op Funeralcare branches show prices dated April 2024 on the public mirror we read. Co-op refreshed Rosyth in April 2026 but has not refreshed the others. The figures we publish are accurate to that source. If a Co-op branch matters to you, phone them directly — Co-op confirmed they accept Funeral Support Payment direct from Social Security Scotland and they offer a free funeral director service for under-18s, but the headline price you'd be quoted today may differ from what we show.

What this site does not do

Kingdom is a directory, not a comparison engine. The line between those two things is the entire wedge. The site refuses, structurally:

• No commission. No funeral director on this site pays for placement, lead-share, or any other relationship. Listing order is alphabetical within town, never paid.
• No ads. No display ads, no native ads, no sponsored placements, no affiliate links to coffin sellers or insurance products.
• No internal review system. The site does not host a review form, does not solicit ratings, and does not score firms. Where a firm has enough public Google reviews to be statistically meaningful, the directory may show the rating and one line summarising what reviewers say. Where it doesn't, the rating is omitted rather than guessed at.
• No email capture. No "fill in this form to see the directory", no newsletter, no account creation. The directory is the page.
• No urgency language. No "limited time", no "act now", no "while you decide".
• No matchmaking copy. Kingdom does not promise to choose for you. It lists the firms; the family decides.
• No bookings. Kingdom does not book, arrange, or secure anything. The verbs belong to the funeral director the family rings.

Listing on the directory is automatic — every Fife funeral director known to publish a Standardised Price List is on the site, regardless of whether they have any other relationship with the operator. Removal is also automatic: any director who asks to be removed is removed, no questions, the same day.

Who runs it

Kingdom Funerals is maintained by Jakub Henderson, a web developer based in Fife, trading as DaVinci Enterprise Services. One named human, one address, one accountability. The site is run as a public directory and is not a registered charity, a co-operative, or a sales channel for any other product.

Jakub built the site after seeing the same problem twice in his own family — a parent dying in Fife, the next of kin trying to weigh three or four firms by ringing each one in turn at a moment when ringing strangers is the last thing anyone wants to do. The Standardised Price List rule should have made that easier. It hasn't, yet. Kingdom is the lever.

Sister brand — plain.funeral

The same operator runs a separate site, plain.funeral, which serves funeral directors directly with a one-page Standardised Price List website at a fixed monthly price. That is a B2B product. It has nothing to do with the Kingdom directory's listing decisions.

The two sites share an editorial hand. They share no commercial relationship beyond that. A funeral director who happens to be a Plain customer gets the same listing on Kingdom as everyone else: alphabetical within town, no early access to Kingdom changes, no preferential ranking, no badge. The neutrality of the directory is the entire trust premise; any preferential treatment kills it.

The disclosure is here, in plain text, because a director discovering Kingdom should be able to read the relationship in the open rather than hear about it later.

How to contact

Kingdom Funerals does not take phone calls. The site is one operator, not a switchboard, and the people who need a phone number are the Fife funeral directors themselves — their numbers are on every card.

For Kingdom-specific matters — a price that is wrong or out of date, a firm that should be listed and isn't, a firm that should be removed, an error on a help page — write to hello@kingdomfunerals.co.uk. Replies usually within two working days.

For funeral arrangements, ring the funeral director directly using the number on their card on the directory page. Kingdom cannot book, quote, or arrange anything on a family's behalf.

Start here: the directory itself is at funeral directors. The orientation page for the first hours after a death is at what to do when someone dies.