The Safari Tent provides just that.....

We believe everyone should have what they want to celebrate their life. After all, we have now come to realise that for our wedding we can choose a variety of venues, and events, why shouldn’t the same apply for our funeral.

Large black cars and men in black clothes who are strangers? Not any more! Why shouldn’t you have exactly the send off you want. Why not have a tank or motorbike hearse, a tractor and trailer, or a VW?

Sandwiches and cakes, cup of tea or a pint? Why not sit in the meadow and have a picnic with your family, good old English breakfast, mug of hot soup on a cold day, or hot pork roll. Fish and chips anyone?

A 20 minute slot, or feeling the need to include religion? Bookings are for a half or whole day event. There’s no rushing, and no pressure. Families can include as much or as little, or no religion into their ceremony.

And finally, a member of the clergy or celebrant, who possibly didn’t know the deceased? Why not ask the mourners, when they feel ready, to share their memories and stories of the life lost, sitting together in a relaxed environment. Isn’t that more fitting and like normal life?

The Safari Tent Venue is situated on the borders of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire on a 2.5 acre site. Imagine, a sunny day, with family and friends, celebrating the life of a countryside lover, surrounded by English wildlife. 

This is a comment from a relative who recently held a celebration of life: "my father didn’t want a lot of fuss when his wife died very suddenly. He decided one gathering was quite enough! My mother had already chosen to be placed in the Barrow, so we decide to have a Direct Cremation, and hold her celebration of life or funeral incorporating the placement of her ashes in the Barrow. It was a chilly December day, and it was lovely to arrive at the Safari tent and be greeted with a lovely mug of hot homemade soup. Once everyone had arrived, a celebrant conducted a ceremony, and then my mothers ashes were carried by her two children to the Barrow, where the urn was handed to my father to place into the niche. We all went in to see the beautiful niche cover which had been made to suit my mother and father, and then, in our own time, went back to the heated Safari Tent for tea and cake. And what a lovely gesture, as we left, to be presented with a handmade flower from music score, for mourners to remember my mother, and her love for music. A different, but very fitting day."