Whether you need ongoing HR support and hands-on guidance for day-to-day matters, or want us to step in to handle a tricky HR issue for you, we provide practical solutions tailored to your business. Our services ex around your needs, giving you clear advice, eective processes, and consistent support to keep HR running smoothly. We also oer HR and management training.
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How we work.
Up-to-date employment contracts and staff handbook, HR policy maintenance, data protection support, expert advice from our HR team, tailored letters and document templates, and regular employment law updates.
OUR RETAINER INCLUDES:
Clients pay a monthly fee and have access to our HR team as and when support is needed. We act as an extension of your business, providing responsive, commercially minded advice across day-to-day HR matters and more complex situations as they arise.
Best for businesses that want consistent, trusted HR support without employing in-house.
OUR MOST POPULAR WAY OF WORKING.
Retained HR support.
We provide fixed-fee support for specific HR projects, including contracts, handbooks, policies, GDPR and data protection compliance, fair work and equality assessments, sexual harassment risk assessments, benefit reviews, and tailored letters or templates. You’ll know exactly what’s included from the start, giving you focused, practical support with a clear outcome—no surprises.
CLEAR SCOPE. CLEAR PRICING.
Fixed-fee projects.
Retained clients benefit from a discounted rate for these ad hoc services, ensuring you receive experienced, practical advice and hands-on HR leadership when it’s most needed.
For projects or situations that can’t be offered as a fixed fee, such as investigations, disciplinary or grievance matters, TUPE transfers, redundancies, or involvement in recruitment and employee meetings, we provide hourly HR support.
EXPERT GUIDANCE FOR COMPLEX OR UNPREDICTABLE HR MATTERS.
Hourly
HR support.
We deliver CPD-certified HR and management training designed to strengthen confidence, capability, and decision-making within your business. Training is available as open courses or exclusive, in-house sessions.
Retained clients benefit from a discounted rate on our HR and management training.
BUILDING CAPABILITY, NOT DEPENDENCY.
HR & management
training.
Chartered Institute of Legal Executives Diploma in Law and Practice
Assessment/Development Centre Assessor training
British Psychological Society Certificates in Psychometric Testing
ILM Management
Mediation
Training
CPD-accredited HR courses
CIPD Human Resource Management
our certifications
Our clients choose CoLab HR because they want professional HR support that feels human, practical, and trustworthy. They value clear guidance, honest conversations, and the reassurance of working with people who understand both the legal landscape and the realities of running a business.
We’re proud to offer support from experienced HR generalists who take a collaborative, non-judgemental approach to every situation. Our team works quickly and responsively when timing matters, offering pragmatic advice that balances compliance with commercial sense. With a team-led model — not reliance on a single individual — clients can trust they’ll always have access to consistent, high-quality support when they need it.
Why choose us.
Kings Monkton School
CoLab HR has been the HR provider to Kings Monkton since 2013. As a highly regulated organisation working to the highest standards, our HR needs are paramount to the effective running of the School. The team at CoLab HR has taken the time to truly understand our School, enabling them to tailor their advice and provide practical, hands-on support across all areas of HR.
Their training sessions are engaging, insightful, and highly relevant, reinforcing key principles of effective people management. Our team gained a great deal from the sessions and came away with a timely reminder of what the ‘H’ in HR stands for, which strongly aligns with our values.
CoLab HR has been a consistently positive and trusted partner, supporting us with expertise and professionalism.
Clifton Coffee Roasters
We’ve worked with CoLab HR since 2022, they deliver all of our HR support and act as a true extension of the Clifton Coffee team. They are highly responsive and always available both remotely and for on-site visits. They quickly understood our people and our culture, and their advice is always practical, commercially sound, and tailored to our needs.
They have delivered training to develop management capability that received excellent feedback, and this is being followed up with CoLab leading a Management Forum for managers to collaborate and continue growing.
We value knowing that our HR compliance is taken care of and that support is always available whenever we need it, whether for practical guidance or simply as a sounding board. We regularly recommend CoLab HR to other businesses because of the consistently high standard of support they provide.
ies
IES have worked with Kate and her team since 2017 providing onsite and remote support. Our culture was quickly grasped, and their style was tailored to us. Whether complex or otherwise, the team are always there to support offering us reassurance and consistency. They provide clear, pragmatic advice to our Board and Senior Management Team on all people matters, ensuring decisions are well-informed, aligned with our values, and legally compliant. Monthly legal updates provide specific changes in the HR world offering services to support.
They add further value through coaching our managers, helping to build confidence and capability. CoLab HR also work closely with our People and Culture Manager on key projects, and wider people initiatives. They are happy to get involved in anything we put in front of them, never a challenge, always an opportunity, which they surpass expectation. We see CoLab HR as trusted, objective, and supportive business who challenge your ideas, asks tough questions, and offers honest feedback.
Their expertise, professionalism, and collaborative approach mean we always feel supported. CoLab HR is not just an external provider, but a trusted partner, critical friend who genuinely contributes to the success of our people and our business. We look forward to continued success together.
Always Responsive Cleaning
We have been working with CoLab HR since 2017, and as a fast-growing, people-orientated business it was essential for us to partner with a company that could truly understand and adapt to our needs. From the very beginning, we were incredibly impressed by their professionalism, kindness, and depth of knowledge.
Nine years later, we still absolutely love having CoLab HR as an extension of the Always Responsive team. They support us with policy reviews, advice, templates, and drafts, and are an invaluable sounding board whenever we need one. Although we do have in-house HR experience, using an outsourced HR provider ensures we always have the most up-to-date knowledge, expert guidance, and an additional perspective.
Running a business is challenging, but running one with over 400 staff is extremely challenging. Having CoLab HR alongside us lightens the load and helps me, as a director, stay a little saner.
