Welcome to the new Humber HR People

If you’ve landed here, you’ll have noticed a few things have changed.

New website. New look. New way of talking about what we do. Same team, same approach, same belief that getting HR right is one of the best commercial decisions a growing business can make.

This is a moment we’ve been working towards for a while, and we wanted to mark it properly, not with a corporate announcement, but with a proper hello.

Why we’ve rebranded

When Kate started Humber HR People in 2019, the goal was simple: to be a different kind of HR company. Commercially focused. Practical. Honest. Properly embedded with the businesses we work with, not parachuted in with a folder of templates.

Six years on, the business has grown well beyond what any of us imagined. We’ve worked with more than a hundred SMEs across the region. We’ve trademarked the Growth HR Model® and the Fair Employer® Standard. We’ve secured investment to support the next stage of growth. We’ve built a team of qualified consultants who genuinely care about the work and the clients.

And along the way, the brand we’d built in the early days started to feel like it belonged to a smaller, earlier version of the business. Not wrong, just outgrown.

So we took a step back and asked the question properly: if we were starting today, with everything we know now, what would the brand look like?

This site is the answer.

What’s actually new

A clearer story. We’ve spent a lot of time getting to the heart of what we do and why it matters. The result is a way of talking about ourselves that finally matches how clients describe us – calm, expert, plain-English, on your side.

A clearer offer. Our services are now organised into structured packages – HR Foundations, HR Protect, HR Protect+, HR Invest, HR Partner+, Employee Relations Support, and SupportHire. You’ll find a page for each, with what’s included and what it costs to get started. No mystery, no “request a quote” dance.

Real proof. We’ve pulled together case studies of real client work. The brief, the work, the outcome, so you can see what it actually looks like to work with us, rather than taking our word for it.

The frameworks, properly explained. The Growth HR Model® and Fair Employer® Standard now have proper homes on the site, with clear explanations of what they are, how the audit works, and what businesses get out of it.

And a tagline that means something. Real People. Real Culture. Real Impact. It’s not a slogan we made up to fill a banner, it’s the shortest honest summary of what we do and why.

What hasn’t changed

The team. The same people you’ve worked with are still here, still doing the work, still picking up the phone. With a few new faces joining us.

The approach. We still embed properly with our clients. We still believe HR is something you build into a business, not something you bolt on. We still don’t do call centres, scripts, or off-the-shelf advice.

The values. We’ve always been straight-talking, commercially focused, and on the side of businesses trying to do right by their people. None of that shifts.

If you’re new here

Welcome. We help ambitious SMEs, typically between 50 and 250 employees, to get HR sorted properly. We work with businesses across engineering, technical, marine, energy, infrastructure, and plenty of other sectors besides. If you’ve ever felt that HR is either a constant fire-fight or something that’s been quietly neglected for too long, we’re probably the kind of people you should be talking to.

Have a look around. The Services pages are a good place to start. The case studies will tell you more about how we work than any sales pitch could. And when you’re ready, the contact form is right there.

If you’ve worked with us before

Thank you. Genuinely. The trust you’ve placed in us is what’s made all of this possible. The growth, the investment, the team we’ve been able to build, and the new brand you’re looking at now.

Nothing about how we work with you changes. Your consultant is still your consultant. Your contracts and arrangements stay exactly as they were. The only difference is that the business behind it now looks and sounds like the version of itself it’s grown into.

What’s next

Plenty. We’ve got a busy year ahead, more team to welcome, more clients to support, more sectors to work with, and more content coming to this blog as we go. If you’d like to keep up with it, the easiest way is to follow us on LinkedIn or sign up to our newsletter.

And if you want to talk to us about anything, we’d love to hear from you.

Get in touch on 01482 738447 or email hello@humberhrpeople.co.uk.