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HR Consultancy, Employment Law Support & Mediation Services for UK SMEs
Structured, strategic, commercially focused HR guidance and mediation services delivered personally by senior independent consultant.
Practical Board-Level guidance to help you understand your position.
Approach
Affordable Support provides structured HR consultancy, employment compliance support and conflict resolution services for employers and individuals across the UK.
Our approach is practical, commercially focused and proportionate. We help clients understand the issue, manage risk, prepare effectively and take clear next steps.
Fees depend on the complexity, duration and scope of the support required.
Support is delivered personally by a senior professional with nearly two decades of experience across HR, employee relations, organisational design, workplace processes and business operations. There is no handover to junior advisers.
Affordable Support provides consultancy, preparation and non-contentious workplace support. Formal legal representation is not provided. Where appropriate, our support can complement advice from solicitors or other legal representatives.
We support UK SMEs, professional practices, individuals and growing organisations with workplace issues, employment-related matters, employee relations, mediation, investigations and civil or commercial conflict resolution.
CHOOSING YOUR RIGHT STRUCTURE
Occasional advice or one-off support
Pay-As-You-Go
Regular HR queries and light casework
Essential Advisory
Ongoing employee relations management
Operational Support
Complex, high-risk or organisational change
Strategic Advisory
PAY-AS YOU-GO SUPPORT
£90 per hour +VAT
For flexible, one-off advice or short-term assistance.
- Disciplinary and grievance guidance
- Redundancy and restructuring advice
- Performance and absence management
- HR documentation review
- Settlement agreement guidance
- Workplace investigation scoping
- Policy drafting and contract review
Minimum engagement: 1 hour
Time recorded and invoiced transparently.
ESSENTIAL ADVISORY FOR BUSINESSES
£255 per month +VAT
For businesses with low HR activity but requiring access to senior advice when needed.
- Up to 3 hours per month
- Email and telephone advisory support
- Guidance on day-to-day HR queries
- Line manager advisory support
- Disciplinary and grievance process guidance
- Review of short HR correspondence
- Immigration consideration when employing overseas workers
- TUPE process guidance and risk awareness
- Employment law compliance guidance.
OPERATIONAL HR SUPPORT
£530 per month +VAT
For businesses managing regular employee relations matters and requiring hands-on case support.
- Up to 6 hours per month
- Ongoing employee relations case guidance
- Drafting of letters and structured process plans
- Policy and documentation review
- Employee relations management
- Line manager advisory support
- Health & Safety process guidance (aligned with HR governance)
- Performance and capability management processes
- Disciplinary and grievance process guidance.
STRATEGIC HR ADVISORY
£850 per month +VAT
For flexible, one-off advice or short-term assistance.
- Up to 10 hours per month
- Guidance on day-to-day HR queries
- Priority response for urgent and time-sensitive matters
- Strategic oversight of complex disciplinary and grievance cases
- Guidance on dismissals and settlement strategy considerations
- Restructuring and change management guidance
- Redundancy programme planning and consultation structure support
- TUPE transfer risk assessment and structured process guidance
- Workplace investigation scoping, oversight and report review
- Escalation pathway planning before formal action is taken
- Advisory oversight ACAS Early Conciliation stages
- Tribunal documentation review and case preparation strategy
- Policy framework alignment with current UK employment legislation
- Support in preparing for difficult senior-level conversations
- Senior-level risk assessment prior to formal employment action
- Advisory input for executive or leadership-level HR matters
- Culture and conduct risk advisory at senior level
- Review of whistleblowing or protected disclosure handling approach.
WORKPLACE INVESTIGATIONS
From £100 per hour +VAT (fixed fee confirmed following scope discussion).
Independent, structured investigation support for sensitive or high-risk matters.
- Independent investigation officer services
- Allegation scoping and investigation terms of reference drafting
- Witness identification planning and interview sequencing
- Preparation of structured interview questions
- Conducting investigation meetings (remotely or in person as agreed)
- Evidence collation and chronology development
- Review of documentary and digital evidence
- Assessment of credibility and consistency of accounts
- Structured findings analysis against policy and ACAS principles
- Drafting investigation reports
- Outcome recommendations (where within remit)
- Disciplinary hearing preparation support
- Investigation process review for procedural robustness
- Support during appeal-stage reviews
- Confidential handling of sensitive workplace matters
- Advisory input to reduce procedural and reputational risk.
POLICY AND DOCUMENTATION PROJECTS
Project-based pricing provided following initial discussion.
For businesses with low HR activity but requiring access to senior advice when needed. Bespoke documentation aligned with operational reality and current UK employment legislation.
- Drafting of tailored employment contracts
- Development of employee handbooks
- Creation or revision of disciplinary and grievance procedures
- Redundancy and restructuring policy drafting
- Performance management framework development
- Absence management policy creation
- Flexible working and family leave policy review
- Whistleblowing and conduct policy drafting
- Equality, diversity and inclusion framework support
- Health & Safety documentation review (where integrated with HR processes)
- Policy audit against current legislative standards
- Alignment of documentation with organisational structure
- Simplification of overly complex policy frameworks
- Structured consultation-ready documentation drafting
- One revision round included within agreed scope.
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT REVIEW (Individuals)
From £350 fixed fee +VAT
(Where complexity increases, fee confirmed in advance.)
Structured, practical guidance to help individuals understand their position before signing
- Review of settlement agreement terms
- Explanation of financial provisions and tax implications (non-tax advice)
- Clarification of restrictive covenant clauses
- Review of confidentiality and non-derogatory provisions
- Assessment of waiver scope
- Identification of potential areas for negotiation
- Structured summary of key risks and considerations
- Drafting of proposed amendments (if required)
- Liaison with employer representative where agreed
- Clear explanation of implications before signing
- Prompt turnaround where deadlines apply.
TRAINING AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
Project-based pricing +VAT
Structured workshops and management briefings designed to strengthen decision-making, procedural confidence and compliance awareness.
Delivery available remotely or in-person by arrangement.
- Line manager disciplinary and grievance training
- Performance management and capability process workshops
- Absence management training
- Conduct and behavioural standards briefings
- Management communication and difficult conversation skills
- HR compliance update sessions aligned with legislative change
- Redundancy consultation preparation workshops
- Investigation skills training for managers
- Policy implementation and procedural consistency briefings
- Practical case-based scenario training
Limited Offer to a limited number of clients
Founding Client Annual Support Offer
Essential Annual Support
£2,770 + VAT
36 hours per year
Enhanced Annual Support
£5,170 + VAT
72 hours per year
Priority Annual Support
£7,770 + VAT
120 hours per year
Mediation
Affordable Support offers clear and proportionate mediation fees, reflecting our commitment to accessible dispute resolution. As an introductory pricing structure, our fees aredesigned to provide accessible support while reflecting the preparation, independence and professional care required in mediation.
Why Affordable Support can provide value without unnecessary overheads?
As an independent practitioner, overheads are controlled without compromising expertise. Clients benefit from:
- Direct access to a senior HR and Employment Law professional.
- Mediation Services: Workplace, Civil & Commercial.
- Structured, defensible processes.
- Clear billing and scope confirmation.
- UK-wide service delivery.
Affordable Support provides efficiency and value.
Professional background:
LLM | MSc HRM | FCIPD | FSB Member | CMC | IMI
Affordable is not a firm of solicitors and we are not authorised or regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). We do not carry out reserved legal activities.
We provide guidance, information and support — not legal representation
Contact us
Tell us how can we help?
If you’re dealing with workplace challenges or conflict, you don’t have to manage them alone.
Affordable Support provides practical HR, employment and workplace advice, along with mediation services (workplace, civil and commercial).
– HR advice and support
– Employment and workplace guidance
– Mediation and conflict resolution
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enquiries@affordable-support.com
0333 772 3792 | 0737796 3544
Affrodable Support Ltd | Company number: 17188925 | Commerce House, Carlton Boulevard, Lincoln, LN2 4WJ
