About Me
Years of senior HR experiance
Senior HR Consultant for SMEs Nationwide Support from Lincolnshire
I'm Natasha Butler, founder of HR PPL, an independent HR consultant based in Spalding, Lincolnshire, supporting small businesses and SMEs nationwide. I am CIPD Level 5 qualified, with over 15 years of senior in house HR experience across heavily regulated sectors including food manufacturing, haulage and logistics, education, charities and the public sector.
- Food manufacturing
- Logistics & haulage
- Hospitality
- Education
- Charity sector
- Public sector
My Professional HR Experience
Senior HR in manufacturing
Fifteen-plus years of senior in-house HR experience, including senior roles at major food manufacturers such as Pilgrim Foods, Bakkavor, Gousto and Princes. That experience underpins my HR support for food manufacturers and seasonal workforces, where shifts, absence, employee relations and fast-moving staffing issues need practical answers.
Logistics, hospitality & beyond
My experience spans logistics, haulage and hospitality — fast-moving sectors where employment issues rarely wait for a convenient moment. I provide practical HR support for haulage and logistics companies dealing with drivers, operational teams, absence, performance and employee relations.
Education, charity & public sector
Advisory and consultancy work across education, charities and the public sector, including HR consultancy for schools, charity sector organisations, London boroughs and NHS trusts. This gives HR PPL relevant experience for schools and charities that need senior HR advice without a full-time in-house HR function.
Ten years running the floor
Ten years as a Retail Store Manager, alongside my HR career which means I've actually done the job, not just advised on it.
Independent HR consultancy
HR PPL brings all of that together: senior HR expertise, delivered personally to the small and medium businesses that need it most.
Why I Started HRPPL
After fifteen plus years inside HR departments in factories, warehouses, schools and boardrooms I kept seeing the same thing.
small and medium sized businesses getting the worst of both worlds. Too small to justify an in house HR team, but facing exactly the same employment law as the big players. One badly handled dismissal, one out of date contract, one grievance that goes wrong, and the tribunal doesn't care that you're a twelve person business.
There was a personal side to it too. I live in rural Lincolnshire with a young family, and anyone who's tried to make a senior career work around limited childcare knows exactly how that maths goes. I needed more flexibility than a traditional in house role could give me so I built it. HR PPL lets me do the work I'm best at, on terms that work for my family, for businesses that need senior HR expertise without the salary cost of hiring it in.
It also means I practise what I preach. When I advise clients on flexible working, family rights or making jobs genuinely workable for real people's lives, it isn't theory it's how my own business runs. I tell clients what they can do, what they can't, and what it will cost them if they get it wrong.
People. Process. Protection.
What Makes My Approach Different
Senior level experience, delivered personally
one point of contact, no call centres, no juniors learning on your business.
Direct, practical advice
plain English, not HR jargon; what you can do, what you can't, and the risk if you get it wrong
Practitioner led, not theory led
real tribunal, dispute and shop-floor experience across heavily regulated sectors
Documents that get used
policies and handbooks written to be followed, not to sit in a filing cabinet
No lock in
support that flexes with the business