The Centre for Care & Wellbeing
Set in the quiet, beautiful landscaped botanical gardens of Springvale Botanical Cemetery, the Centre for Care & Wellbeing offers companionship following the death of a loved one and assists people throughout their journey of grief, loss and mourning.
The Centre offers a range of care and support services that can assist you through the different stages of dealing and coping with grief by offering a diverse program of supportive sessions including gentle physical activities, meditation, music, art, informative talks and social walks.
Bios Urn provides the way to renew Life through Nature
The patented, award winning ‘Bios Urn’ is the world’s first Biodegradable Urn.
The Bios Urn is a fully biodegradable urn designed to convert you into a TREE after Life.
The urn has two separate sections: a bottom section for the ashes and the top section with a special growth medium where you plant your seedling. When the urn is buried the seedling grows in the top section and its roots grow down through the ashes, as the Bios Urn biodegrades.
Simply plant your seedling in the urn, and then plant the urn straight into your garden or a plant pot. With some simple care, your seedling will grow into a healthy living memorial to your loved one. You can create a multigenerational memorial by using plants that self seed.
As the Bios Urn has no expiry date, you can use your Bios Urn whenever you are ready, using recent or old ashes.
Suitable for both humans and pets.
Living Legacy Forest
In memory of your loved ones, options are now available for cremated remains to be transformed into life-giving nourishment for a growing tree. You can choose from a variety of trees, to be planted at agreed locations of your choice. A further 200 trees are also planted locally and abroad to replace the air we breathe in a lifetime.
Your living trees are infused via the sapling roots with the treated cremated remains of your loved one, which then nourishes the tree and creates a natural memorial that can be seen, smelt and touched. Family and friends can connect and locate the final resting place, whether it be a grave, memorial, or scattering site via our GenConnect mobile app. The app also provides the geographic location of the further 200 trees, and a digital home for family and friends to share lasting memories. Friends and family can commemorate the memory of a loved one with Legacy Giftcards, which can also be connected through the GenConnect app
Organise a Donation Collection at a Funeral
Often people choose to commemorate the life of a loved one by asking for donations rather than flowers at the funeral or memorial service. Organising the funeral of a loved one can be immensely stressful and many charitable organisations are indebted to those who choose to ask for donations to be given to charity at this time.
We will help you collect donations in lieu of flowers by contacting your selected charity for a supply of special donation envelopes that will be available at the funeral. We can also organise for a receipt to be sent to every person who makes an In Memoriam donation.
If you wish to receive In Memoriam donations when you pass away, it may be helpful to inform your friends and family, executor or include instructions in your Will.