Straight-talking HR for Leatherhead small businesses.

HR support for Leatherhead SMEs.

Beagle HR works with small and medium businesses across Leatherhead, Fetcham, Bookham and Ashtead in the Mole Valley. Leatherhead is well known for its business parks and office campuses, which sit alongside a traditional town centre and a strong base of professional-services, technology and corporate-adjacent SMEs.

Office and professional employers face the classic growing-business HR issues: scaling teams, hybrid working, performance management, and the first difficult conversations a small firm has to handle. The Employment Rights Act 2025 has raised the bar on all of it.

We give Leatherhead employers the HR support a larger company has in-house, without the headcount: compliant contracts, a proper handbook, sensible hybrid and performance policies, and calm advice when an issue lands. All in plain English, all on a fixed fee, all from a local consultant who can be on site when needed.

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 Leatherhead employers.

Leatherhead’s office and professional employers grapple with hybrid working, performance management and scaling teams, where clear contracts and policies make all the difference.

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.