HR Consultancy, Manchester & North West
HR Consultancy for North West Businesses:
Senior, Practical, Local
DaisyHR provides CIPD-qualified HR consultants across Manchester, Bolton, Wigan, Warrington, Salford, Stockport, Preston, Lancaster and Cheshire. Employment law compliance, outsourced HR, fractional HR directors. Serious HR support for growing businesses that are done doing it on their own.
Serving SMEs across Bolton, Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester.
CIPD Qualified
Bolton-Based, North West Focused
Senior HR Director Level
Typically Up and Running in 2 Weeks
In short: DaisyHR is a Bolton-based HR consultancy serving businesses across the North West. We provide fractional HR directors for businesses that need senior HR leadership without a full-time hire, outsourced HR for businesses that want their entire HR function managed externally, and HR consultancy support for specific projects, employment law questions, or complex people situations. CIPD qualified. ERA 2025 compliant. No call centre, no script. Real HR consultants who know your business.
What Does an HR Consultancy Actually Do?
HR consultancy means bringing in external HR expertise to support your business, whether that is a one-off project, ongoing support, or taking full responsibility for your HR function.
For most North West SMEs the reality is straightforward: you need good HR and you cannot justify a full-time HR team to provide it. An HR consultancy fills that gap, giving you access to CIPD-qualified, senior HR experience at a fraction of the cost of employing it directly.
DaisyHR is not a call centre providing generic employment law advice down a telephone line. We are a team of HR consultants based in Bolton who become part of your business, understanding how you work, who your people are, and what your specific risks and priorities look like. When something happens, you speak to the same person who knows your business, not whoever happens to answer the phone.
What DaisyHR's HR Consultancy Covers
Fractional HR Director
A senior HR professional embedded in your leadership team on a part-time basis. They attend your meetings, own your people strategy, advise your board, and operate at director level, without the full-time salary. The right model for businesses between 10 and 100 employees that need HR leadership, not just HR administration.
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Outsourced HR
DaisyHR manages your entire HR function. Employment contracts, employee handbook, disciplinaries, grievances, absence management, ERA 2025 compliance, all handled on your behalf. The right model for businesses that want HR properly covered without building an internal team.
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Employment Law Advice
Employment law advice from qualified consultants who understand what it is like to run a North West business in 2026. ERA 2025 changes, dismissal risk, redundancy obligations, TUPE. Practical advice you can actually act on, not legal opinion written to protect the advisor rather than help you.
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HR Policies and Documentation
Employment contracts, employee handbooks, disciplinary procedures, absence policies, written, reviewed, and kept up to date with current employment law. Most SME documentation in the North West was last properly reviewed before 2023. After ERA 2025, that is a serious risk.
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Strategic HR and People Planning
For businesses going through growth, change, acquisition or restructure. Building the people infrastructure that matches where the business is going, not just where it has been. Workforce planning, manager development, culture, retention strategy: the work that makes the difference between a business that scales well and one that falls apart under its own growth.
HR Project Support
Sometimes you need expert HR input for a specific situation: a redundancy programme, a TUPE transfer, a management restructure, an investigation. DaisyHR provides project-based consultancy support for businesses that do not need ongoing HR but are facing something they should not handle without help.
Why North West Businesses Choose DaisyHR
We Are Based Here
DaisyHR is based in Bolton. We work across Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and the wider North West. We are not a national call centre pretending to be local. Our consultants work with businesses in Wigan, Warrington, Salford, Stockport, Bury, Rochdale, Preston, Lancaster, Chester and everywhere in between. We know this market.
We Write for Employers, Not for Both Sides
Peninsula and Acas write HR guidance for employers and employees simultaneously. DaisyHR writes exclusively for employers. That means our advice, our documentation, and our consultancy is framed around protecting your business and managing your risk, not giving both sides equal weight.
Senior, Not Junior
When you call Peninsula, you speak to an advisor. When you work with DaisyHR, you work with a CIPD-qualified consultant with real senior HR experience: someone who has sat in leadership teams, managed complex people situations, and understands what good HR looks like at director level. You get that, not a call handler with a script.
ERA 2025 Ready
The Employment Rights Act 2025 is the biggest change to UK employment law in a generation. Most North West SMEs have not updated their contracts or handbooks since it became law in December 2025. DaisyHR’s consultancy includes full ERA 2025 compliance: we make sure your business is ahead of every deadline, not scrambling to catch up.
Transparent Pricing
Peninsula and People Matters do not publish pricing. DaisyHR does. You know what support costs before you commit to anything. No hidden fees, no lock-in contracts, no surprises.
How Our HR Consultancy Works With You
Free Consultation
A 30-minute call with a DaisyHR consultant. You tell us what is going on. We tell you honestly what the HR picture looks like and what, if anything, you need to do about it. No sales pressure, no obligation.
Rapid HR Audit
For new clients we conduct a rapid audit of your existing HR documentation: contracts, handbook, policies, any recent correspondence. We identify the gaps and the risks and give you a clear priority list. This is where most businesses discover how exposed they actually are.
Agree the Right Model
Based on what we find, we agree the right type of support: fractional HR director, outsourced HR, project consultancy, or a combination. You see the cost before you commit to anything.
We Get Started
Within the first 30 days most clients have updated documentation, briefed managers, and an active consultancy relationship in place. The reactive firefighting stops. The organised HR management starts.
Ongoing Relationship
HR consultancy works best as an ongoing relationship: we understand your business, your people, and your history. We scale support up when things get busy and back when they settle down. No long-term contracts, no fixed commitments beyond reasonable notice.
Employment Rights Act 2025: Are You Prepared?
The Act received Royal Assent in December 2025. Changes are rolling out now and continue through 2026 and into 2027. For North West SMEs with outdated documentation, the risk is real:
6 April 2026 – SSP payable from day one. Your absence management process needs updating.
6 April 2026 – Paternity and parental leave become day-one rights. Your contracts and handbook must reflect this.
6 April 2026 – Redundancy protective award doubles to 180 days’ pay. Every redundancy must be handled correctly.
October 2026 – Fire and rehire effectively banned. Contractual changes require proper consultation.
January 2027 – Unfair dismissal protection after 6 months’ service. Every hire and exit carries increased risk.
DaisyHR includes ERA 2025 compliance management as standard across all services. We update your documentation, advise your managers, and keep your business ahead of every deadline.
Who DaisyHR Works With
Our HR consultancy clients are typically North West businesses between 10 and 100 employees. They come to us at one of four moments:
The First Serious HR Problem
A dismissal that went wrong. A grievance that escalated. A redundancy that was handled without proper process. The moment when an MD realises that doing HR by instinct is no longer acceptable, and the cost of getting it wrong is higher than the cost of getting it right.
The Growth Inflection Point
The business has grown from 10 to 40 people and what worked informally does not work anymore. Managers are making it up as they go. Documentation does not reflect what actually happens. Culture is fracturing under the weight of rapid growth.
The Compliance Wake-Up Call
ERA 2025 landed. A solicitor mentioned something about unfair dismissal after six months. A payroll provider flagged SSP changes. Suddenly the MD is aware that employment law has moved on and the business has not kept up.
The Planned Professionalisation
A private equity investment. A management buyout. A trade sale in 18 months. The business needs its HR function in shape before the due diligence starts, not during it.
Sectors We Serve
HR Consultancy Across the North West
Greater Manchester
Lancashire
Cheshire
Merseyside
Many of our consultancy engagements are delivered remotely or as a combination of on-site and remote. We go where the business needs us.
What North West Businesses Say
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Who You'll Be Working With
Founder & HR Director
MCIPD · Fractional HR Director, Bolton & North West
Sam spent 10 years building HR functions in North West businesses, not just managing the day-to-day, but shaping how companies hire, develop and retain their people as they scale.
Before DaisyHR, she led HR across manufacturing, professional services and high-growth SMEs. The businesses where HR wasn't a support function. It was a commercial lever. She's seen what happens when companies get their people infrastructure right early, and what it costs when they don't.
She's also been in the room when it kicks off. Disciplinaries that escalate. Grievances that get personal. Redundancy programmes that need handling properly. That's the bit most HR consultants outsource or avoid. Sam runs toward it.
She started DaisyHR because she kept seeing the same gap: businesses that needed strategic HR thinking and someone who'd roll their sleeves up when required. Not one or the other. Both.
What Sam brings
- Helped growing businesses get their people structure right before it becomes a problem
- Workforce planning and organisational design that grows with you
- People strategy that connects to commercial goals
- The calm, experienced presence when difficult conversations need having
- CIPD Chartered (Level 7) with a specialism in employment relations
Bolton based. North West focused. Strategic when you need a plan. In your corner when you need backup.
Every DaisyHR consultant is CIPD qualified with a minimum of ten years' senior HR experience. We don't use generalists. We use people who've sat at the board table and navigated the exact situations our clients face.
Frequently Asked Questions
An HR consultancy provides external HR expertise to businesses that do not have an in-house HR team or need specialist support beyond their existing capability. This ranges from day-to-day employment law advice and HR documentation through to strategic HR leadership, complex casework, and full outsourced HR management. DaisyHR provides all of these services to North West SMEs.
An HR consultant typically supports specific projects or provides advice on specific situations. A fractional HR director is a senior individual embedded in your leadership team on a part-time basis: attending meetings, owning your people strategy, and operating at director level. DaisyHR provides both, and most clients use a combination depending on where they are in their growth.
For North West SMEs, HR consultancy retainers typically start from £500 to £800 per month for a light advisory service and range to £2,500 or more per month for a full outsourced HR function or fractional HR director engagement. Project-based consultancy is charged separately. Book a free consultation and we will give you a specific, transparent quote before you commit to anything.
If you have a specific legal question, such as can I dismiss this person or what does TUPE mean for this situation, employment law advice may be sufficient. If you are looking for ongoing support, documentation management, and a proper HR function, HR consultancy is the right answer. If you are not sure, book a free consultation and we will tell you honestly which one you need.
Peninsula and Citation are large national providers that operate largely through call centres and fixed-fee insurance-backed models. DaisyHR is a North West consultancy where you work with a named, CIPD-qualified consultant who knows your business. We are senior practitioners, not call handlers. We write our advice exclusively for employers, not neutrally for both sides. And we publish our pricing. Peninsula and Citation do not.
Yes. DaisyHR provides project-based HR consultancy for businesses facing a specific situation: a disciplinary, a grievance, a redundancy programme, a TUPE transfer, an investigation. Call us today and we can typically begin within 48 hours.
Yes. All DaisyHR consultants hold CIPD qualifications and have senior HR experience in North West businesses across multiple sectors including manufacturing, professional services, healthcare, construction, technology and retail.
Yes. DaisyHR is based in Bolton and covers Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and the wider North West. We deliver consultancy both on-site and remotely depending on the nature of the engagement and what works best for your business.
Talk to an HR Consultant in the North West Today
You don't need to have everything figured out before you call. Most of our clients come to us because something's not right and they're not sure what to do about it: a people problem that's getting worse, an employment situation keeping them up at night, or just a sense that HR is a liability rather than an asset.
That's exactly what we're here for. Book a free 30-minute consultation. No obligation, no sales script.
HR consultancy services across Bolton, Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Warrington, Wigan, Bury, Rochdale, Preston, Lancaster, Chester, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.
Last reviewed: March 2026