Your Surrey people partners

Straight-talking HR for Surrey SMEs.

Founder-led, award-winning HR support for small businesses across Weybridge, Woking, Guildford and the Surrey commuter belt. From day-one contracts to tribunal-grade investigations.

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HR you can actually pick up the phone to.

I’m Dan. I run Beagle HR from Surrey. I work with small business owners who do not have time for HR jargon, retainer minimums they do not use, or advice that hedges every sentence.

Got a tricky employee situation, a contract you are not sure about, or a compliance question that has been sitting in your inbox for three weeks? Book a call. I will tell you what to do. No fluff, no sales pitch.

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FLAGSHIP PROGRAMME

The HR Compliance Programme

A fixed-fee programme that takes your business from no HR to fully sorted. Four phases: compliance audit, contracts and handbook, HRIS setup, manager toolkit. We project-manage every step, so you keep running the business.

For SMEs that need an HR function built properly the first time, not patched together as problems arise.

From £695/month. 6-month fixed-fee engagement. Optional retainer to follow.

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What you get

  • ✓ Full HR compliance audit and prioritised fix list
  • ✓ Bespoke contracts of employment (ERA 2025 compliant)
  • ✓ Full HR policy suite and employee handbook
  • ✓ Breathe HR set up and your team onboarded
  • ✓ Manager toolkit: 1-to-1s, performance, disciplinary scripts
  • ✓ Two strategic reviews with Dan during the programme
  • ✓ Right-to-work check process and training

What we do for SMEs in Surrey.

Three packaged services that cover what most small businesses actually need. Retainer support, a one-off compliance check, and the contracts and handbook that keep you out of trouble.

Retained HR support

Day-to-day HR for your team. Disciplinaries, sickness, contracts, the lot. Email and phone access to Dan and the team. From £249/month.

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HR compliance audit

One-off review of your contracts, handbook, policies and processes. You get a written report, a priority list, and a fixed fee. From £495.

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Contracts & policies

Bespoke contracts of employment and an employee handbook written for your business. Not a generic template you found on Google. From £695.

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Not sure where you stand?

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Why HR cannot wait

Getting it wrong costs a lot more than getting it right.

UK employment tribunals are not theoretical. They are slow, expensive, and rising in cost every year. These are the numbers we quote to clients when they ask why they should bother fixing things now.

£115k

Maximum unfair dismissal compensation

Statutory compensatory award cap, April 2026 onwards. Discrimination claims have no cap.

£8-15k

Typical legal cost to defend one claim

Whether you win or lose. Costs are rarely recovered in the Employment Tribunal.

12-18

Months to a tribunal hearing

Current backlog at most regional Employment Tribunal centres. Hanging over you for over a year.

6 months

Service before unfair dismissal protection

Under the Employment Rights Bill (subject to royal assent), 6 months from 1 January 2027. Down from 2 years.

Most claims start with something small. A messy dismissal, a sickness mishandled, a contract that should have been issued months ago. Fix the small things and you remove the entry points.

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What Surrey business owners say.

Dan is approachable, straight-talking, and always on the end of a phone or email when we need him. For a small agency, having access to that level of HR thinking without the cost of a full-time HR department has been invaluable.
Saybhan / Digital Marketing Agency
Dan ran an HR audit for us, helped with references, coached our managers on KPIs, and ran kick-starter sessions with the team. Beagle HR is an integral component of how we run the business.
Russ M / nTrust IT Support
Pragmatic, jargon-free communication, and no fuss whatsoever. Exactly what a small hotel owner needs from an HR consultant.
Ian B / Hotelier

Trusted by 30+ businesses across the UK since 2020. From cafés and care homes, to consultancies and property firms.

Beagle HR accreditations: PolicyBee insured, Silver Breathe Certified Partner, Disability Confident Committed, Theo Paphitis Small Business Sunday Winner, SME News Best Startup HR Consultancy Surrey 2021

People Focused

Performance Driven

Human at Heart

Trusted Partner

Local HR support across Surrey and the commuter belt.

We work with small businesses in Weybridge, Chertsey, Woking, Guildford, Walton-on-Thames, Esher, Cobham, Epsom and across SW London.

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Common questions from Surrey small business owners.

HR FAQs

The legal obligations do not scale with headcount. From the day you employ one person you need a compliant contract, a basic set of policies, and a process for handling sickness, grievances and disciplinaries. Most 5-person businesses we work with use Beagle on a low-touch retainer for exactly this reason. They do not want to keep Googling whether what they are about to do is legal.
A retainer gives you unlimited email and phone access for a fixed monthly fee, plus reviewed contracts, policy updates when employment law changes, and someone who already knows your business when something goes wrong. Pay-as-you-go works if you genuinely only need HR twice a year. Most businesses underestimate how often issues come up.
Yes. Beagle HR has a workspace above Waitrose on Weybridge High Street. Our consultants are normally on client site rather than at the desk. We are people people, not hiding behind computer screens sipping cups of tea. We are practical professionals who have come to HR from the non-traditional route. Most of us have run management and supervisor jobs in retail, hospitality and operations before moving into HR consultancy. That shop-floor experience is why our advice lands as practical rather than textbook. We cover Weybridge, Chertsey, Woking, Guildford, Walton-on-Thames, Esher, Cobham, Epsom, Leatherhead, Reigate, Camberley, Farnham and across the Surrey and SW London commuter belt. Most of the work is by phone, email and video. We visit in person when it matters: audits, sensitive meetings, hearings.
We review your contracts of employment, employee handbook, core policies (disciplinary, grievance, sickness, family leave, holiday, working time), and the day-to-day processes around them. You get a written report, a priority list of fixes, and a fixed fee for the work. It is the fastest way to find out where you are exposed.
Book a free 15-minute call. Tell us what is going on. We will either give you the answer on the call, or quote a fixed fee to handle it properly. We would rather tell you it is straightforward (and you do not need to spend anything) than win a contract you do not actually need.

Got an HR problem? Let’s deal with it.

Book a free 15-minute call with Dan. If it is a quick answer, you will get it on the call. If it is not, you will get a fixed-fee quote. No retainer minimums, no hourly billing.

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