Straight-talking HR for Lyne small businesses.

HR support for Lyne SMEs.

Beagle HR works with small businesses around Lyne, Longcross and the rural fringe between Chertsey and Virginia Water. It is a quieter, semi-rural patch, with a mix of equestrian and land-based businesses, small firms operating from converted farm and estate buildings, and the businesses growing up around the Longcross site and studios.

Rural and land-based employers often run small, close teams and assume HR is something only bigger companies need to worry about. It is not. The same employment law applies, and the Employment Rights Act 2025 has tightened things further. We help Lyne employers get the basics right, contracts, a handbook, a plan for problems, without the jargon or the big-firm price tag.

Rural employers around Lyne and Longcross also have to think about practical things like travel, lone working on dispersed sites, and what happens to staff when a yard, unit or contract changes hands. We make sure your contracts and policies reflect rural realities, and we are on hand if a TUPE or restructuring question comes up.

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 Lyne employers.

Small rural and land-based employers around Lyne tend to run informal arrangements, which is exactly where contract and process gaps tend to hide.

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.