Straight-talking HR for Thorpe small businesses.

HR support for Thorpe SMEs.

Beagle HR supports small businesses in Thorpe and the surrounding Runnymede area, from the village out towards Egham and Chertsey. Thorpe is best known for Thorpe Park, but the wider area is a genuine business mix: leisure and tourism, the firms on and around the local industrial estates, and a spread of trades and small service businesses serving the M25 corridor.

Leisure, seasonal and shift-based employers have particular HR needs, from working-time and holiday calculations to managing a workforce that flexes through the year. We help Thorpe businesses get contracts and rotas that actually fit how they work, handle people issues properly, and stay compliant as employment law changes, all in plain English on a fixed fee.

Leisure and visitor-economy businesses around Thorpe ramp up hard for the peak season and wind down after it. Getting the contracts, hours and holiday entitlement right for a workforce that doubles and shrinks through the year is fiddly, and it is where we save Thorpe employers the most time and risk.

Retained HR support

Day-to-day HR for your team. Disciplinaries, sickness, contracts, the lot. Email and phone access to me. Priced on your team size.

HR compliance audit

One-off review of your contracts, handbook, policies and processes. Written report. Priority fix list. Priced on a call.

HR Compliance Programme

Six-month fixed-fee programme to put your HR foundations in place from scratch. Priced on your team size.

Common HR challenges for Thorpe employers.

Seasonal and shift-based Thorpe employers face working-time, holiday-pay and flexible-staffing questions that catch a lot of small businesses out.

Recruiting and keeping good people. Competition for staff in this part of Surrey is real, and the cost of living does not help. We help with clear offers, sensible probation, and the contract and benefit basics that make people stay.

The first difficult conversation. The first disciplinary, grievance, capability or sickness case is where small employers are most exposed. Handle it badly and it can become a tribunal claim. We guide you through it step by step, or run it for you.

Getting compliant and staying there. Contracts that pre-date the Employment Rights Act 2025, a handbook nobody has touched in years, missing right-to-work checks. We put the foundations right, then keep them current as the law changes.

Why a local Surrey HR consultant.

Most of the day-to-day work happens by phone, email and video, which keeps things quick and keeps your costs down. But being local to Surrey means we turn up in person when it actually matters: an on-site audit, a sensitive meeting, a disciplinary or grievance hearing where a real person in the room makes the difference. You deal with Dan and the Beagle HR team directly, not a call centre and not a different adviser every time. Because we only take on a limited number of businesses at once, you get an HR partner who genuinely knows your business.

Working with us is straightforward. It starts with a free 15-minute review, where we listen, tell you honestly what your business needs and what it does not, and agree a fixed fee before you commit to anything. There is no hourly clock running, no lock-in on the ongoing retainer, and nobody passing you around. You get plain English, a clear plan, and someone who picks up the phone.