Civil Celebrants in Nottingham, Derby, and Mansfield
What is the role of a Civil Celebrant?
Civil celebrants lead funeral services which may have no religious context at all. The service will focus on remembering the life of the person who has died.
At A.W. Lymn we offer our own in-house funeral celebrant to help you plan an order of service and ensure that it reflects how you want the person to be remembered, discussing any funeral poems or readings, songs or hymns you’d like, as well as who you’d like to play a part.
If we already know your family, our Civil Celebrant will ask about the person who has died, to get a sense of who they were and what they meant to you, and will use this information to write a eulogy about the person and their life, which the Celebrant will deliver during the service.
Speaking, reading or singing at a funeral can be emotional, nerve-wracking or both. A big part of our celebrant’s role is to help you feel reassured and supported on the day.
Meet the team
Richard Marshall
A.W. Lymn Civil Celebrant
Telephone: 07534 142 680
Email: richard.marshall@lymn.co.uk
With over 20 years’ experience in the funeral profession Richard Marshall is our own in-house Civil Celebrant.
Richard has been with A.W. Lymn The Family Funeral Service since December 2010, joining us first as a funeral director and latterly as a Senior Funeral Director.
He is based in Beeston but will happily travel within the East Midlands to meet with bereaved families to plan the type of funeral ceremony that they want for their loved one.
He is also a member of the Institute of Civil Funerals, who lead the national standard for Celebrants in the funeral industry by continually monitoring the quality of all work and responding to feedback left by the families he has cared for.
Colum O'Shea
Civil Celebrant
Telephone: 07947 972 665
Email: colum.oshea@lymn.co.uk
Colum joined the company in August 2011 as an apprentice and started his training as a funeral arranger, director, embalmer and memorial mason. After a decade in the funeral profession he trained as a civil funeral celebrant with Civil Ceremonies Ltd and gained his NOCN Level 3 Diploma in Civil Celebrancy (the highest qualification available in the field). He is based in Mansfield but will happily serve any family using A.W.Lymn, The Family Funeral Service.
He is also a member of the Institute of Civil Funerals, who lead the national standard for Celebrants in the funeral industry by continually monitoring the quality of all work and responding to feedback left by the families he has cared for.
Mark Chapman
Civil Celebrant
Telephone: 07957 321 976
Email: mark.chapman@lymn.co.uk
Mark initially started with A.W. Lymn The Family Funeral Service in March 2009 as a driver and bearer, he then progressed taking on the role of a funeral arranger, he then trained further taking his diploma in Funeral Directing in 2012.
Whilst in his role as a funeral director and running the company’s funeral home on Osmaston Park Road in Derby, Mark gained his qualification as a Civil Celebrant with Civil Ceremonies and is a member of the Institute of Civil Funerals.
Mark has been involved in the Funeral industry for many years and became involved after losing a loved one himself in 2000.
