Straight-talking HR for Albury small businesses.

HR support for Albury SMEs.

Beagle HR supports small businesses in Albury and the surrounding Surrey Hills villages, between Guildford and Shere. This is a beautiful, largely rural part of Surrey, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with a business base built around country estates, hospitality, tourism, and the small firms and trades that serve a dispersed rural community.

Hospitality and rural employers face real HR challenges, from seasonal and part-time staffing to tronc and working-time questions for pubs and restaurants, to managing teams across spread-out sites. We help Albury businesses get contracts and policies that fit, handle people issues properly, and stay compliant as the law changes, without the jargon or a big-firm price.

Tourism and hospitality around Albury and the Surrey Hills is highly seasonal, and finding and keeping staff in a rural area is a perennial challenge. We help you build flexible but compliant staffing arrangements, and handle the conduct and capability issues that inevitably come with a busy front-of-house team.

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 Albury employers.

Albury’s hospitality and rural employers lean heavily on seasonal and part-time staff, which makes contracts, holiday pay and working time a frequent headache.

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.