About Days of April


Senior HR judgement, without hiring for it.

We are the outside expert you bring in to see the people side clearly, put it right, and keep it that way.

Who we are

We have seen where the people side quietly comes apart.

We have worked inside companies of many kinds and sizes, and run our own. We have watched a thin contract turn into a tribunal, a good manager leave because nobody saw it coming, and a founder still signing off every leave request at forty staff. That is the eye we bring to yours.

Days of April began out of necessity. When our own company needed this work done, we went looking for a firm to take the whole of it, and could not find one. Each handled a piece and left the rest with us. So we built the practice we could not find.

We are a team with twenty-five years of combined experience in senior management and HR, including running our own company. Between us: CIPD qualified, a master’s in human resource management, a master’s in marketing, and degrees in business management.

  • An objective outside read. We are not selling you hires or payroll, so our read has no angle.
  • Evidence over opinion. We tell you what the record shows, plainly and with respect.
  • Everything in writing. Fixed scope, one point of contact, documents you keep.
  • Yours to keep. We build it, hand it over ready to run, and stay available when you want us.

Why our read stays honest

We do advisory HR only. No recruitment, no payroll.

When the firm auditing your hiring also sells you hires, the advice has an angle. Ours does not. We assess how you hire and help you do it well, but we never place candidates, and we never run your payroll, so your salary data stays where it is and the assessment stays independent. It is a cleaner posture, and a bank or a buyer looking at your people side will notice.

The part a software vendor leaves out

A system is only useful if it gets used.

Most companies here do not have time to learn a new platform on their own. So we do not hand you one.

When you run April HR with us, we set it up, run it alongside you, keep the letter models and the rules current as the law moves, and send the owner a short summary each month. You get the rigour that used to be only for big companies, sized for yours, with a person behind it. Your records stay in your own private database, backed up, on a record that stands up.


Everything you share stays yours.

What you tell us is confidential, used only for the work at hand. We anonymise every story, and we never name a client without written consent.