HR Consultants in Andover
Northern Hampshire HR support — MOD supply chain, food production, and Test Valley SMEs
A 35-minute drive from our Totton base. We work with Andover-area engineering, food production, light industry, MOD-adjacent contractors, and professional services. HR packages from £175/month with no annual lock-in.
Andover sectors we work across
MOD supply chain & defence-adjacent
Security-cleared workforce handling, contractor-vs-employee classification on technical roles, and procurement-frame compliance flowing down from prime contractors.
Food production & Test Valley FMCG
Shift patterns, BRC/SALSA training compliance, seasonal demand spikes, and the high-throughput hiring patterns that production-line businesses need.
Light industry & engineering
Industrial estates around the town house engineering, light manufacturing, logistics and distribution businesses. Working-time regulations, shift policies, contractor classification.
Professional services
Town-centre accountancy, legal, design and consultancy businesses. Hybrid-working policies, billable-hour performance management, growth-stage hiring.
HR support for the northern-Hampshire economy
Andover sits at a particular intersection: large enough to support a real SME economy, small enough that most businesses know one another. The MOD presence has shaped local employment for decades — there's a steady population of supply-chain SMEs that contract into Marlborough Lines and the wider defence network. Around that sit the Test Valley food businesses, the industrial estates ringing the town, and a town-centre professional- services population serving them.
Andover-area HR work usually has a sector-specific overlay. A defence supply-chain SME needs security-clearance considerations layered onto standard contracts. A food-production business needs BRC-compliant training records. An engineering firm needs proper working- time documentation. UK employment law is the same baseline — but the operational shape of the business changes what good HR looks like in practice.
Most of our Andover engagements start with the HR Advice Line at £175/month. Several scale up to HR Protect once the business hits the point where occasional advice isn't enough — typically around 25-30 employees, or when a complex case (a defence-cleared termination, a multi-headcount redundancy, an FCA-adjacent investigation) needs more hands-on support.
How Andover clients work with us
HR Advice Line (£175/mo) — phone/email advice, most common starting point.
HR Protect (£299/mo) — unlimited support + on-site visits. Right when sector-specific compliance work intensifies.
HR Business Partner (£799/mo) — embedded partnership for businesses 30+ employees.
Full HR Audit — one-off, especially common as a starting point for compliance-heavy Andover businesses.
Common Andover questions
Do you work with MOD supply-chain businesses?
Yes. Security-cleared workforce handling, contractor-vs-employee classification on technical roles, procurement-frame compliance from prime contractors. All standard parts of our Andover-area work.
Can you support Andover food-production businesses?
Yes — BRC/SALSA-driven training compliance, shift patterns, seasonal demand, high-throughput production-line hiring. Standard topics for our Test Valley food clients.
How far is Andover from your office?
About 35 minutes' drive south via the A303 and M3. Phone/email/video for day-to-day work; in-person same working day for situations that need it.
Do you handle light-industry HR work?
Yes. Shift policies, working-time records, contractor classification, health-and-safety overlays. Common across the industrial estates ringing Andover.
What size businesses do you typically support?
5-80 employees. Light industry, engineering, food production, MOD-adjacent contractors, and a smaller cluster of professional services around the town centre.
HR support for Andover businesses
Book a free 15-minute discovery call. We'll work through your situation and recommend whether ongoing support or a one-off engagement is the right fit.
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