Straight-talking HR for Cobham small businesses.

HR support for Cobham SMEs.

Beagle HR works with small businesses across Cobham, Oxshott, Stoke d’Abernon and the surrounding Elmbridge area. Cobham is one of the most affluent towns in the country, with a smart high street, a strong international and expat community, and a business base built around professional services, high-end retail, hospitality and personal services.

Businesses serving this market employ small, skilled teams and trade heavily on reputation and discretion. That makes getting the employment side right, and handling any people issue quietly and correctly, genuinely important rather than a box-ticking exercise.

We help Cobham employers with compliant contracts, sensible policies, and steady, practical advice when something tricky arises, all on a fixed fee with no surprises. You get Dan and the team directly, plain English, and a local consultant who can be there in person when a situation calls for it.

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 Cobham employers.

Cobham’s premium service, retail and hospitality employers depend on reputation and discretion, so recruitment, retention and handling sensitive matters quietly are front of mind.

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.