Kate Underwood HR and Training

HR that works for small businesses. Now with the technology to match.

Kate Underwood HR & Training has spent over 10 years sorting people problems for small businesses from our base near Southampton, for clients across the UK. Kate has over 28 years' experience, is CIPD qualified, is HRi Gold accredited, has supported 200+ businesses, and is regularly quoted on employment law in the National press.  https://www.kateunderwoodhr.co.uk/about/press

Employment law is changing faster than it has in a generation.  Most small businesses have no HR department, no compliance team, and no realistic budget for enterprise software. 

So we built our own, in collaboration with www.Cuedos.AI to support small businesses at a lower cost.

https://www.SafeVoice.co.uk — whistleblowing, managed for you

A confidential reporting channel in your name, online and by freephone. Every disclosure comes to our qualified HR team, not to the management, so concerns about your most senior people have a safe place to go.  This is particularly important for regulated small businesses.  Triage and a written assessment with recommended actions are included every time. Live in five working days, published openly, where typical managed providers charge £2,000–£5,000 a year.

https://www.YourAppraisal.io — reviews that actually get completed

Guided self-assessments, independent manager scoring with rating gaps flagged, SMART goals, and a branded PDF with a full audit trail. Templates lock when a cycle launches, so everyone answers the same questions. UK-hosted, set up in under an hour.  No need for spreadsheets; manual tracking and calibration reporting is made simple.  Your previous appraisal data is ready for the next cycle.

https://www.TheCareerRoad.com - support for the people who leave

Redundancy is hard enough without sending people out with nothing. The Career Road gives leavers a real job-search platform: honest CVs built only from what they've actually done, roles scored against their experience with the gaps named, interview practice out loud, and UK salary benchmarks. A genuine addition to an exit package and a signal to the people who stay.  Something the major corporations have been offering for years, but the costs for a small business were too high.

https://www.kuhrtraining.co.uk - Statutory training, built for small teams

New CPD-accredited statutory courses on our own learning platform. Self-paced, tracked, with automatic reminders, so you can prove your team is trained without pulling anyone off the job for a day.

Just want to talk to Kate about a problem?

Power Hour — one focused hour with Kate on the single issue keeping you up at night. You leave with a written action plan, or your money back. £150 + VAT, no contract, and it's credited against a support plan if you take one within 30 days.

Free HR Health Check — a few minutes online, and you'll know exactly where you stand.

Come and find us at stand 66 and 67 in the YBC Village