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A Civil Funeral is:
'a funeral driven by the wishes, beliefs and values of the
deceased and their family, not by the beliefs or ideology of the person conducting the funeral.'
- The Institute of Civil Funerals
A Civil Funeral therefore sits between a traditional religious service - which must be carried out by an ordained priest and follows the set form of the religious denomination concerned - and a Humanist ceremony, in which any religious reference is excluded.
This means you are free to have a completely non-religious ceremony or one which, while not following the set form of a religious service, may include prayers, hymns or readings as is appropriate for the person concerned.