Straight-talking HR for Egham small businesses.

HR support for Egham SMEs.

Beagle HR works with small and medium businesses across Egham, Englefield Green, Thorpe, Virginia Water and the wider Runnymede area. Egham sits right on the M25 at junction 13 and runs up to Royal Holloway, University of London, so the local economy is a real mix: education and the businesses that feed off a large campus, Thames Valley technology and professional-services firms, and a steady base of hospitality and retail around the town centre and Egham Hill.

Most of these employers are small and do not have an in-house HR team. The owner or office manager handles people matters on top of the day job, usually with a contract template found online. That works until a grievance, a sickness issue or a tricky exit lands, and then the gap shows. We give Egham businesses someone to call, plain-English advice, and a fixed fee so you always know where you stand.

With Royal Holloway on the doorstep, plenty of Egham employers hire graduates and early-career staff, which raises questions about probation, fixed-term contracts and getting people productive quickly. We help you set those up properly so you can build a young team with confidence rather than crossed fingers.

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 Egham employers.

Egham employers, especially those near the university and along the Thames Valley tech corridor, tend to run lean teams that scale fast, which throws up a familiar set of issues.

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.