Straight-talking HR for Old Woking small businesses.

HR support for Old Woking SMEs.

Beagle HR supports small and medium businesses across Old Woking and the wider Woking area. Old Woking has a long industrial heritage, particularly in printing, and today it is home to a mix of light-industrial units, manufacturing and trades businesses, plus the service firms that have grown up around them.

Manufacturing and light-industrial employers have HR needs that go well beyond a standard office contract: shift patterns, health and safety, machinery and lone-working policies, and the realities of managing a hands-on workforce. We build those in, keep your contracts and handbook compliant with the Employment Rights Act 2025, and give you straight, practical advice when an issue arises.

Many Old Woking manufacturing and trade businesses have long-serving staff and family ownership, which brings its own questions around succession, long-service terms and managing change without losing the people who hold the knowledge. We help you handle those transitions fairly and lawfully.

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 Old Woking employers.

Old Woking’s manufacturing and light-industrial employers manage shifts, sites and safety, which makes getting contracts, policies and process right more important, not less.

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.