Provide funding to preserve and protect cemeteries around the UK.
We feel that much more funding for cemeteries is needed to care, maintain, protect and preserve them now and in the years ahead.
Signatures
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Government response threshold (10,000) · 10,000/10,000 · reached
Debate threshold (100,000) · 10,857/100,000
- 09 OCT 2025Government respondedDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsGovernment reply
Local authority cemeteries are managed by councils, who set budgets and make service decisions locally. Privately owned cemeteries operate independently and are maintained by their respective owners.
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Background
We think this is important as babies, children, adults and those in the Armed Forces are resting in cemeteries, their forever home. We feel that these places are where we honour, remember and pay our respects to those we love and cherish with all our hearts. We feel that we all live on through our precious loved one's who have gone before us and the legacies left behind by millions of these people.
We believe that cemeteries are not sufficiently funded when they should be beautiful open green spaces we are all proud of.