Flexible support for small businesses

Whether you need help with HR, payroll, benefits, training or the admin side of your business, support can be shaped around what works best for you.

Crawford Consultancy works with small businesses across Falkirk, Stirling and Central Scotland, offering one-off support, project work and ongoing monthly help.

Support that fits around your business

No two businesses are the same, so support shouldn’t be either. Some clients need help with one specific area, such as payroll or contracts. Others need a broader mix of support across HR, benefits, training and business admin.

Whether you need an extra pair of hands for a one-off project, regular monthly support or someone to help you get things back under control, Crawford Consultancy offers practical support built around the realities of small business.

HR Support

Practical HR support for every stage of the employee journey — from recruitment and onboarding to contracts, policies and day-to-day employee matters.

Support can include:

  • Recruitment and interview support
  • Employment contracts
  • Policies and handbooks
  • Offer letters and new starter paperwork
  • Induction and onboarding support
  • Absence management support
  • Disciplinary and grievance support
  • Employee letters and documentation
  • Day-to-day HR advice
  • General support with employee-related matters

Whether you need help getting the basics in place or support with a more specific HR issue, support can be tailored to what your business needs.

Payroll

End-to-end payroll support to help keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes.

Support can include:

  • Weekly or monthly payroll processing
  • Using timesheet or time and attendance systems to prepare pay
  • Overtime, commission and pay adjustments
  • Starters, leavers and payroll changes
  • Statutory payments
  • Pension administration linked to payroll
  • Holiday and sickness changes affecting pay
  • Payroll administration and employee paperwork
  • Change of terms letters and related documentation

From day-to-day payroll processing to the admin that sits behind it, support is designed to help keep payroll accurate, organised and manageable.

Benefits

Support with the admin that sits behind employee benefits, helping keep things organised, up to date and running smoothly.

Support can include:

  • Benefits administration
  • Employee benefit changes and updates
  • Holiday changes and related admin
  • Cycle to work administration
  • Refer a friend schemes
  • Nomination forms and benefit paperwork
  • Employee communications linked to benefits
  • General support with employee benefits records

Benefits administration can easily become another task on the list, so support is there to help keep everything in order and take some of that pressure away.

Training

Practical training to help managers and teams feel more confident, informed and supported.

Support can include:

  • HR and people management training
  • Policy and process-based training
  • Absence management training
  • Disciplinary and grievance training
  • Induction and onboarding training support
  • Bespoke sessions tailored to your business
  • Leadership training support as your business grows

Training can be shaped around the needs of your business — whether that’s helping managers feel more confident, supporting consistency or giving teams a better understanding of key processes.

Business Support

Extra support with the admin and practical side of running a busy business.

Support can include:

  • Tender support
  • Procurement support
  • Diary management and coordination
  • General admin support
  • Process reviews and improvements
  • Forms, templates and business paperwork
  • Document formatting and organisation
  • Support keeping key business admin on track

Sometimes what a business needs most is simply an extra pair of hands. Business support can be tailored around the areas where you need help most.

Flexible support, shaped around your business

Every business is different, so support can be offered in a way that works for you. That might mean:

  • One-off support for a specific issue or project
  • Project-based support for things like contracts, onboarding, payroll setup or process reviews
  • Ongoing monthly support for businesses that want regular help across HR, payroll, benefits or admin

If you’re not quite sure what level of support you need, that’s absolutely fine — we can talk it through and work out the best fit together.

Not sure what support you need?

That’s absolutely fine. Many businesses get in touch because they know something needs sorted, but they’re not quite sure where to start.

If you’d like to chat through your options, get in touch and we can talk about what would be most helpful for your business.