One Life Funeral Planning

What One Life Funeral Planning does

One Life Funeral Planning is a UK-based, private for-profit funeral services provider recorded as headquartered in Sheffield. According to firmographic data, the company was founded in 2020 and employs between 251 and 500 staff. Its stated service offering, drawn from a short company description, comprises four areas: cremation services, prepaid funeral plans, burial services, and ancillary estate planning support covering lasting power of attorney and will preparation. The first three are core UK funeral-services categories, while estate planning represents an extension into adjacent legal-administration work that complements pre-funded funeral arrangements.

The firmographic claims — 251-500 employees, 2020 founding, Sheffield base — are sourced from structured data feeds. However, the available first-party web evidence presents a material contradiction: the domain listed as the company's website (onelife.co.uk) currently resolves to a parking page on Freeola.com/GetDotted.com listing the domain "For Sale" with a make-offer inquiry flow. No live corporate site, no product pages, no pricing, no leadership disclosures, no customer references, no funding history, no regulatory registrations, and no social media presence were retrievable from the supplied sources. Every enrichment field beyond the short description — revenue, headcount, technology stack, customer segments, pricing, ownership, M&A activity, partnerships — is empty in the input.

Because of this firmographic-versus-web contradiction, the operational reality of One Life Funeral Planning cannot be independently verified from the available material. Revenue model mechanics, go-to-market, technology architecture, and customer concentration are all data gaps rather than knowable facts.

Name

One Life Funeral Planning

Website

https://onelife.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

One Life Funeral Planning is a Sheffield-based UK firm providing cremation, funeral plans, burial services, and estate planning support including lasting power of attorney and wills.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Funeral Services

NAICS

Funeral Homes and Funeral Services (812210), Funeral Homes and Funeral Services (81221)

SIC

Insurance Agents, Brokers & Service (6411)

akta.pro primary industry

End-of-Life Planning & Hospice/Palliative Care Coordination (HLADALAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Final Expense / Burial Life Insurance (FSAIABAF)

Keywords

• Funeral planning services
• Prepaid funeral plans
• Cremation services
• Burial services
• Estate planning support

Headquarters

HQ city

Sheffield

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Core offering

One Life Funeral Planning offers cremation, funeral plans, and burial services to UK consumers, alongside support with lasting power of attorney and will writing. The company acts as a service provider handling end-of-life arrangements and related personal estate documentation for individual customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cremation services Cremation services provided to UK consumers arranging end-of-life disposition for themselves or family members.
• Funeral plans Pre-arranged funeral plans offered to UK consumers for planning and pre-paying their own or a relative's funeral.
• Burial services Burial services provided to UK consumers arranging end-of-life disposition for themselves or family members.
• Lasting power of attorney support Support service helping UK consumers with lasting power of attorney arrangements as part of personal estate planning.
• Will writing support Support service assisting UK consumers with writing a will as part of personal estate planning alongside funeral arrangements.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Safe Hands Funeral Plans: Independent UK funeral-plan provider selling pre-paid plans directly and through funeral directors. Directly comparable product and target customer to One Life's funeral-plan line.
• Avalon Funeral Plans: UK pre-paid funeral-plan provider competing on price and trust-based customer fund safeguarding. Closely comparable on product, distribution model and regulatory posture.
• Pure Cremation: UK direct cremation specialist offering low-cost pre-paid cremation plans. Direct overlap with One Life's cremation offering and a benchmark on price-led positioning in the UK cremation segment.
• Golden Charter: UK's largest dedicated funeral-plan provider, distributing plans through a network of independent funeral directors. Closest direct competitor to One Life on the pre-need funeral-plan product line.
• Rest Assured Funeral Plans: UK specialist funeral-plan provider offering fixed-price pre-paid plans distributed via independent funeral directors. Directly comparable pre-need product set.
• Funeral Partners: PE-backed UK funeral services consolidator with hundreds of branches providing traditional funerals, cremations and pre-paid plans. Comparable multi-site UK operator competing for the same customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Co-op Funeralcare: UK's largest funeral director by volume, operating crematoria, funeral homes and pre-paid funeral plans nationally. Comparable to One Life on full-service funeral provision and on funeral-plan distribution.
• Royal London (funeral plans): Major UK mutual insurer offering pre-paid funeral plans alongside life and protection products. Comparable on the funeral-plan product, with much stronger consumer brand trust and capital backing.
• Dignity plc: Largest UK listed funeral services provider (~800 funeral homes) and a major seller of pre-paid funeral plans. Directly comparable as a multi-service UK funeral and funeral-plan operator, with greater scale and listed-company transparency.

Emerging players

• Co-op Legal Services: UK provider of wills, lasting power of attorney and probate services adjacent to funeral provision. Comparable to the estate-planning half of One Life's bundled proposition.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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