Straight-talking HR for Chertsey small businesses.

HR support for Chertsey SMEs.

Beagle HR works with small and medium businesses across Chertsey, Addlestone, Ottershaw and the wider Runnymede area. Sitting on the M25 at junction 11 and close to the M3, Chertsey has long been a base for distribution, light industrial and trades businesses, alongside a historic town centre with its own mix of retail, hospitality and professional firms.

Logistics, trades and light-industrial employers have HR needs that office-only consultants tend to miss: shift patterns, drivers and vehicle policies, lone working, and managing a mix of employed and agency labour. We build those into the work and give you someone to call when something tricky lands.

Whatever the sector, the employment-law basics are the same, and the Employment Rights Act 2025 has raised them. We help Chertsey employers get compliant contracts and a handbook in place, handle people issues calmly, and avoid the costly mistakes that catch growing businesses out, all on a fixed fee with no hourly billing.

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 Chertsey employers.

Chertsey’s logistics, trades and industrial employers manage drivers, shifts and sites, which brings working-time, agency-worker and health-and-safety questions a generic contract will not cover.

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.