Marches HR

19/09/2026

Our next free Leominster HR Clinic is this Wednesday 23 September!

Employing people's getting increasingly complicated, even for small and well-established organisations. From October onwards there's a lot changing, including right to work checks for freelancers, new duties on trade union rights and preventing sexual harassment, plus much shorter service needed to claim unfair dismissal and higher compensation for successful claims.

Pop along, bring your questions and talk them through with our colleague, Annette.

📍 Our office at Easters Court, Leominster (Brightwells building)

🕐 1.00pm - 4.00pm

📩 Link to book your free 30 minute slot's in the comments

Know a local small business or charity that could use a friendly, straightforward HR steer? Please share this with them.

15/09/2026

We're still growing our team 📣

We're getting ready to advertise for an HR Support Apprentice to join us here in Leominster and we wanted to give our network a heads-up before the role goes live.

This truly is a brilliant opportunity for someone who wants a proper grounding in HR, right in the thick of it. Over around 18 months, you'll work towards your fully-funded CIPD Level 3 qualification with our local training provider Riverside Training, while getting stuck into real client work week-in, week-out.

We’re not just thinking about the L3 apprenticeship itself… this role’s about the bigger picture. We’d absolutely love to find someone who's aspiring to become an HR Advisor in the future and who sees this as the first step in building those solid foundations within a business where they can grow.

As a small, independent HR consultancy, we can offer something a lot of bigger employers can't… real (supported) exposure to the full breadth and depth of HR and business operations, not just one narrow part of it. Our hope’s that this person will grow with us well beyond the L3 apprenticeship itself.

The details:

🏢 Office-based in Leominster

🕐 32 hours/week, Monday - Friday

🎓 CIPD Level 3 apprenticeship (circa 18 months) with Riverside Training

💰 £14,182 starting salary for Year 1

🎂 Benefits including your birthday off, plus 2 paid volunteering days a year and free parking

📈 A real pathway to grow towards HR Advisor level, for the right person who’s prepared to put the work in

If you know someone taking their first steps into an HR career (or you fancy it yourself) keep an eye out, full details coming soon. In the meantime, feel free to like, share or drop a comment if you'd like to be tagged when the ad goes live!

11/09/2026

We’re still growing our team here at Marches HR and there’s a real chance to help us shape something, rather than just slot into an ‘end’ product.

If these things sound like you (or someone you know), keep an eye on our page these next few weeks:

- you’re early in your HR career (or career working in a small business or charity) and keen to progress

- you’re skilled in, and enjoy, dealing with people

- you love to learn and have a strong work ethic

- you’d make the most of sponging up the depth and breadth of HR and operational experience our team can offer you

- you’re within easy commuting distance of Leominster

- you’re available to work around 32 hours over 5 days per week from the office

We’ve got something exciting coming soon 👀

26/08/2026

18/08/2026

Be More Frank (one of our 2 chosen local charities) are now just £191 off their £9,500 target 💥

It’d be brilliant to see the target reached by tomorrow for Frank’s family and all the other families they support in Frank’s memory.

Details are in the post below👇

1 week ‘til Frank’s 19th birthday the other side of the stars.

Soo we’ve 89% funded Franko’s 19th birthday fundraiser which, quite Frankly (boom boom) is amazeballs.

Can you help us get to 100%? What we really would love to do is raise adequate funds to support 19 families by Frank’s 19th birthday on 19th August.

A tall order but omigod look how close we are!! Could you donate £19 or a mega £190 to a family in your area facing the bleakness of a childhood cancer diagnosis? You’ll feel warm & fuzzy inside for having done something meaningful and BLOOMIN EPIC, we promise!

Link in comments & bio.

14/08/2026

We're hiring!

As our HR consultancy continues to grow, we're building out our bank team with 2 new zero hours worker roles. Both offer meaningful work, flexibility and the chance to be part of a team that takes real pride in what we do.

🔍 HR Investigations Specialist (equivalent to £45,883 - £54,255 FTE, depending on experience and specialisms - plus 12.07% holiday pay on hours actually worked)

Leading complex, sensitive workplace investigations (from scoping through to a robust, evidence-based report) on behalf of clients predominantly in the public and not-for-profit sectors. This is hands-on investigation work... interviewing, weighing evidence, reaching sound findings on matters that really matter to the people involved.

🗣️ HR Advisor (equivalent to £33,932 - £38,103 FTE, depending on experience - plus 12.07% holiday pay on hours actually worked)

Delivering high-quality, practical HR advice and support across a varied client base of small businesses and charities... from employee relations casework through to training, documentation and everything in between.

Both roles require experienced and skilled HR professionals who know they're good at what they do... not just because they believe it themselves but because others have told them so. If that sounds like you (or someone in your network), we'd love to hear from you / them.

We've popped the links to both adverts in the comments and they close on Sunday 6 September.

31/07/2026

This week we've had Caitlin with us on work experience and she's put together her own thoughts on what work experience really offers, both to students and to the small businesses and charities who take them on.

Have a read...

And if you're an employer who's never really thought about offering work experience or you have a sneaking suspicion you're focusing more on the reasons it can't be done than the ways it can be, this might just change your mind 🧡

30/07/2026

It’s a good job us HR folks live for the plate-spinning isn’t it?!

Consultation on the draft Acas Code of Practice covering disciplinary and grievance procedures has just gone live 💥

And it’s a major revamp that’s proposed - first time it’s been subject to a change of this magnitude in 17 years.

We can’t do a banana for scale on this one, so for context… it was 18 years ago that Lorna started working in the HR world.

Anyway, our new plates (in a nutshell and just for giggles) are as follows:

- Expansion of the Code to cover workers; not just employees

- Requirement for employers to try to resolve grievance and disciplinary issues informally first (we don’t disagree with this one… but it’s a huge shift in approach for many employers and HR people)

- Tightening up of when suspension can be used in conduct cases

- Introducing meatier / new sections on mediation, manager training and reasonable adjustments

Now more than ever, if you’re a small business or charity without in-house HR expertise and you aren’t already partnered with an independent HR consultancy like Marches HR then we honestly suggest a rethink on that… sharpish 🤯

We’re already seeing an influx of employers getting ahead of January’s change to unfair dismissal rights - that’s only going to grow now with this latest announcement…

26/07/2026

We've got 2 x 1:1 slots left at Wednesday's HR Clinic and tomorrow's the last day for bookings 👀

If you run a local small business or charity in or around Leominster, this is your chance to get 30 minutes of free, practical HR advice over a cuppa. No strings... just a 1:1 conversation about whatever's on your mind. Recruitment, contracts, sickness absence, disciplinary and grievance, policies, reasonable adjustments... you name it.

Don't hang about - book now!

We're so excited to be hosting our very first HR Clinic from our new Leominster office on Wednesday 29 July from 10.30am and we'd love for you to be one of the first through the door!

If you run a local small business or charity, this is your chance to get 30 minutes of free, practical HR advice over a cuppa. No strings... just a 1:1 conversation about whatever's on your mind. Recruitment, contracts, sickness absence, disciplinary and grievance, policies, reasonable adjustments... you name it.

Only 4 slots available, so don't hang about. Book now! We've popped the link in the comments.