Straight-talking HR for Woking small businesses.

HR support for Woking SMEs.

Beagle HR works with small and medium businesses across Woking and the surrounding area, from the regenerated town centre out to Byfleet, Knaphill and Sheerwater. Woking is one of Surrey’s busiest commercial centres, with a fast rail link to Waterloo, some major employers on its doorstep, and a deep base of technology, engineering and professional-services SMEs.

A town with this much business activity has a high concentration of growing companies, and growth is exactly where HR gets stretched. The informal way of doing things that works at five people starts to creak at fifteen or twenty-five, and the Employment Rights Act 2025 has raised the stakes further.

We give Woking employers the support to scale safely: compliant contracts, a proper handbook, an HR system if you need one, and calm, practical advice when an issue arises. You get someone you can pick up the phone to, plain English, and a fixed fee so you always know where you stand.

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 Woking employers.

Woking’s fast-growing tech, engineering and professional SMEs hit the same wall: the HR that worked early on starts to fail as the team scales.

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.