Branch News: Chertsey

St Mary Oatlands Christmas Remembrance Service

Xenos Foster, DM for the Walton on Thames district, every year arranges a special Christmas Remembrance Service, where families are invited to come and remember their loved ones. Staff from Walton District branches were on hand to assist with the service and afterwards serving mince pies and mulled wine. We have received some lovely comments and feedback from our families saying how beautiful and special the service...

Remembrance Day 2018 – Lest We Forget!

All of Lodge Brothers branches are marking Remembrance Day this year with their own special window display. "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them"...

Easter Garden at Chertsey Branch

Helen at our Chertsey branch was hard at work marking Easter with a beautiful garden display in her branch window, to wish the local community and all our families a happy and blessed Easter.. ...

Signature Homes “Parklands Manor” QCF training and Woking Crematorium visit with Lodge Brothers

On Thursday 18th January Lodge Brothers District Managers Xenos Foster and Victoria Kibble visited Signature Homes marvellous new care home “Parklands Manor” in Chertsey and conducted QCF training with 35 of their staff and nurses. The training gave those attending a real insight into what Lodge Brothers do and how we work with our communities on a daily basis. On Tuesday 13th February Lodge Brothers returned...

St Mary’s Oatlands – Christmas Remembrance Service

Lodge Brothers held their annual Remembrance Service for families who lost loved ones during the year. They have left us but they will never be forgotten. Reverend Folo Olokose and Reverend Hugh Montgomerie conducted a beautiful service, with 237 people braving the elements on Sunday 10th December. The majority of which stayed behind afterwards for mulled wine and mince pies. A special mention to the harpist on th...

An Egg-Cellent Window Display

Helen, at our Chertsey branch has been hard at work this week, marking Easter with a beautiful garden display in her window. Both Helen and all at Lodge Brothers wish the local community and all our families a happy Easter...

Mother’s Day Celebrated Across the Region at Lodge Brothers

Mother’s Day is always celebrated in our Lodge Brothers branches across the region – this year we have been remembering our mothers and have paid tribute to all of them with beautiful window displays including baskets of flowers and a copy of lovely poem entitled "If Flowers Grow In Heaven" If flowers grow in heaven Lord, Then pick a bunch for me Then place them in my mother's arms And tell her they're f...

Chertsey Says Farewell to Local Fireman John Toes

The funeral was held recently of local Chertsey fireman, John Toes at the town’s Parish Church, St Peter’s. The funeral was arranged by Lodge Brothers from its branch in Windsor Street, and District Manager Richard Leachman led the long funeral cortege to the church door. In addition to a ten-strong Fire Drill Section and standard-bearers and a guard of honour of some two dozen firemen, the cortege included a ...

Lodge Brothers Cooling Down at Chertsey’s Black Cherry Fair

The annual ‘Black Cherry Fair’ has been taking place in the market town of Chertsey for many hundreds of years, and this year, local business Lodge Brothers Funeral Directors had a stall. But unlike most others on the Abbeyfields site, they weren’t selling anything! District Manager, Richard Leachman, and one of his team of Funeral Arrangers, Tom Hoyles, gave away nearly 300 bottles of water to passers-by on...

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond Heads UP the Local Runnymede & Weybridge Enterprise Forum Summer Soire

The Runnymede & Weybridge Enterprise Forum is a local business group led by The Right Hon Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Chaired by Beverley Lodge, Director of Lodge Brothers. The RWEF runs various events for businesses in the local community. A recent summer soire event was held at The Oatlands Park Hotel in Weybridge on 20th July and was Philip’s first event as Chancellor. Over 60 peo...