Gathered
A place to remember together

The Gathered Permanence Pledge

A memorial is only worth making if it lasts. This page is our promise, written down, about what happens to every memorial we craft.

Paid once. Kept forever.

Every Gathered memorial is paid for once and hosted for the lifetime of the page. There are no subscriptions, no renewal letters, and no hidden costs later. We built Gathered this way because we believe nobody should receive an invoice to keep their mother's memory online, and a memorial that disappears when a payment stops was never really a memorial at all.

Your memorial is served over enterprise-grade infrastructure with the same reliability as the world's largest websites, and every memorial is kept in full, original quality. Photographs are never compressed into oblivion, and pages are never quietly archived.

  • Your memorial is never deleted, and never expires
  • No advertising will ever appear on a memorial page
  • Visitors are never asked to register, subscribe or pay
  • We never sell anything to the people who come to remember
  • Your family's photographs and words remain yours, always
  • A complete copy of your memorial is available to your family on request, at no charge
  • Free updates and additions, for life: new photographs, new tributes, new chapters

    • Your memories are never a product

    Some memorial platforms show advertising beside tributes, ask grieving visitors to create accounts, or use memorial pages to sell flowers and gifts. We find that unacceptable. A Gathered memorial is a quiet, beautiful place that belongs to your family, and it will stay that way. We make our living by crafting memorials well, not by monetising the people who visit them.

    What if something happens to Gathered?

    An honest question deserves an honest answer. Gathered is a small, independent business in Newcastle upon Tyne, and families rightly ask what would happen to their memorial if we were ever to close our doors. Our commitment: every family can request a complete, self-contained copy of their memorial at any time, free of charge, which works on any web host in the world. And in the unlikely event Gathered ever ceased trading, we would give every family their full memorial files and ensure existing memorials remained online during a long handover period, so nothing is ever lost.

    A promise made carefully

    We would rather make a smaller promise and keep it than make a grand one and hope. That is why every line on this page is specific. If you have a question we have not answered, write to [email protected] and you will get a straight answer within 24 hours.

    "So the people we love are never lost, and never a line in someone's ledger."
    See Our Memorials Or visit Maggie's memorial to see the craft for yourself