The Sheila Kendrick Suite
The Sheila Kendrick Suite is a purpose-built ceremony room at AE Jolliffe & Son Funeral Directors in Ferndown. With a calm, contemporary design, it offers a peaceful setting where families can say goodbye in a meaningful and personal way. The room opens onto a tranquil Reflection Garden, and on-site wake and catering facilities allow guests to remain together and continue the day comfortably in one location.
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Facility features of The Sheila Kendrick Suite
Capacity – 80 Guests
As our largest ceremony room, the Sheila Kendrick Suite can comfortably seat up to 80 guests. Its spacious design makes it ideal for larger services, while still maintaining a sense of intimacy and warmth.
Live Streaming
Our professional live streaming service allows loved ones who cannot attend in person to be part of the ceremony in real time. It’s a meaningful way to include friends and family from afar, ensuring everyone can pay their respects regardless of location.
Audio and Visual Tributes
The ceremony room is fully equipped with high-quality audiovisual systems, enabling you to play meaningful music, display photo slideshows, or screen video tributes that tell the story of your loved one’s life.
Personalised Themes
You are welcome to decorate the space to reflect your loved one’s personality – from favourite colours to cherished mementos or themed floral displays. The layout of the room can also be tailored to suit formal, relaxed, or alternative service styles.
On-Site Wake and Catering Options
Families can take comfort in knowing that the wake can be held on the same premises. Our on-site catering facilities make it easy to continue the day in one location, reducing stress and creating a seamless experience for guests.
The Orchard Room
Located at Lesley Shand Funeral Service in Corfe Mullen, the Orchard Room is a modern ceremony room designed for intimate, heartfelt services. The room’s calm and welcoming atmosphere helps families focus on what matters most. On-site wake facilities offer a simple and comforting way to extend the gathering after the service.
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Facility features of The Orchard Room
Capacity – 40 Guests
With space to seat up to 40 guests, the Orchard Room is ideal for smaller, more intimate gatherings. It offers a comforting atmosphere where family and friends can feel close and connected.
Live Streaming
Our high-quality live streaming service allows those who are unable to attend in person to feel included, whether they’re across the country or around the world. It provides a real-time connection to the ceremony for distant friends and relatives.
Audio and Visual Tributes
Personalised audio and visual tributes are easily incorporated into your service. Whether it’s favourite music, photo montages, or heartfelt videos, our AV setup helps you share memories in a meaningful way.
Personalised Themes
From floral arrangements to custom layouts and keepsakes, the room can be styled to reflect the life, passions, and personality of your loved one. Families are encouraged to create a space that feels uniquely theirs.
On-Site Wake and Catering Options
Families can take comfort in knowing that the wake can be held on the same premises. Our on-site catering facilities make it easy to continue the day in one location, reducing stress and creating a seamless experience for guests. Whether you bring your own refreshments or work with local caterers, the setting is flexible to your needs.
The Seaview Suite
The Seaview Suite is a bright, peaceful ceremony room at Ives & Shand in Parkstone. Designed for smaller, personal services, it offers a calm environment where families can come together to honour and remember a loved one. Services can also be arranged in the evening or at weekends, offering flexibility at a time when it’s most needed. On-site wake and catering facilities help make the day as seamless and comforting as possible.
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Facility features of The Seaview Suite
Capacity – 40 Guests
Accommodating up to 40 guests, the Seaview Suite is perfect for intimate to medium-sized gatherings. Its clean, neutral palette complements any theme and creates a welcoming atmosphere.
On-Site Wake and Catering Options
Families can take comfort in knowing that the wake can be held on the same premises making it easy to continue the day in one location, reducing stress and creating a seamless experience for guests. You are welcome to bring your own refreshments or work with your preferred caterers.
Audio and Visual Tributes
From carefully chosen music to moving photo slideshows and video clips, our audio-visual technology helps families share memories in a touching and professional way as part of the ceremony.
Personalised Themes
The room can be transformed with personal items, favourite colours, or decorative themes. Layouts can be adjusted to support either formal or more relaxed arrangements that best reflect your loved one’s life.
The Blandford Suite
The Blandford Suite is a purpose-built ceremony room in the centre of Blandford, offering a simple and comfortable space for personal farewells. Whether you prefer a formal or informal service, the room can be arranged to suit your needs. Services can also be held in the evening or on a Saturday, providing added flexibility for families to say goodbye without pressure.
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Facility features of The Blandford Suite
Capacity – 40 Guests
Ideal for smaller, more intimate ceremonies, the Blandford Suite offers seating for up to 40 guests. It provides a private, tranquil environment for close friends and family to gather
Audio and Visual Tributes
Personalise the ceremony with meaningful music, video montages, or a collection of favourite images. Our audio-visual system helps bring those memories to life, adding a deeply personal touch to the service.
Personalised Themes
Whether you’d like to include photos, flowers, or cherished keepsakes, the room is easily adapted to reflect what mattered most to your loved one. The layout can be adjusted for traditional or contemporary styles.
Please note: On-site wake/catering is not available at this location.
Facilities and options
We can provide any type of funeral according to your preferences, whether that’s a traditional service, led by a minister of faith, or an informal gathering of friends and family sharing memories of a loved one over tea and biscuits.
Everything from the music to the positioning of the chairs can be tailored to the requests of the person who has passed, or the loved one looking after the arrangements. We can guide you through the choices, and, once we understand what you’re looking for, enact those wishes and bring all the elements together.
Because we never host more than two services a day – one in the morning and one in the afternoon – there is no worry about delays from other funerals or the pressure of overrunning, as can be an issue in other settings.
Holding a wake with us
Whatever type of service you choose, we can also offer the attendees a wake afterwards, if that’s something you’d like.
Following the service, the coffin will be removed and taken to the place of committal, and the ceremony room rearranged, providing a welcoming space for people to gather, talk and take refreshments.
This option foregoes the need to coordinate booking another venue elsewhere and means those in attendance won’t have to travel from one place to another.
Working with trusted local businesses, including florists and caterers, or any provider of your choice, we can make arrangements that are right for your event, whatever your budget. You can also be assured of a calm, respectful environment.
Affordability
Our ceremony rooms provide flexibility and convenience, and greater affordability too. Without the need for many of the elements you’d have at a full traditional funeral, such as hearses or funeral cars, there is a reduction in overall costs of up to £1000.
Services and prices
Funeral services in one of our ceremony rooms include:
- Provision of the Funeral Director’s services
- Attending to all of the necessary arrangements
- Provision for you to select a coffin of your choice
- Transfer of the deceased from the place of death within a twenty mile radius during normal office hours
- Care of the deceased prior to the funeral
- The full use of our Service Chapel for the funeral
- Full surround sound music system available
- Large screen available for Visual Tributes
- Provision to transport the coffin in a private ambulance or estate motorcar to the nearest crematorium following the service in our Private Service Chapel
Get in touch with us
Please do get in touch and one of our friendly and experienced team can talk you through the options, and help you determine if it is right for you.
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