UK payroll, run without the headaches your team is sick of.
Umbrella for contractors and agencies. Managed payroll for businesses. SafePAYE accredited, HMRC compliant, fully insured. Pay your people on time, every time, without the spreadsheet wars.
Hartshorne Contracting Ltd
Umbrella · UKPelham Engineering Ltd
Managed PAYE · UK“We moved 180 contractors to Faversham in under a month. The umbrella process is clean, the team picks up the phone, and our contractors actually understand their payslips for the first time.”
Two services. Done properly.
No upsells.
You either need an umbrella for your contractors, or you need someone to run your company payroll. We do both. That's it. No hidden products, no bolt-ons, no consultancy retainers buried in the small print.
Umbrella for Contractors
Become a Faversham employee, get paid through PAYE, and stop worrying about IR35, take-home calculations and HMRC paperwork. £20 per payslip, fully insured, SafePAYE accredited.
How umbrella works →Umbrella for Agencies
Place candidates with confidence. We handle the contractor side end-to-end, so your consultants can focus on filling roles instead of fielding payroll questions. Same £20 per payslip, paid by the contractor.
For agencies →Managed Payroll for Businesses
You send us hours, wages and pension contributions. We handle PAYE submissions, payslips, RTI, BACS and reporting. £6 per payslip plus VAT. Your finance team stops dreading the last week of every month.
How managed payroll works →Compliance & RTI
Real Time Information submitted to HMRC on the day you run payroll. P60s, P45s, P11Ds, year-end returns, auto-enrolment compliance. Done before you've thought to ask about it.
What we handle →Same-Day Faster Payments
Pay run signed off in the morning, contractors paid by lunchtime. No three-day BACS waits, no excuses, no contractors phoning the desk on a Friday afternoon.
Payment timelines →Full Indemnity Insurance
£10m employer's liability, £10m public liability, £5m professional indemnity. Included as standard for every contractor on our umbrella. No upgrades, no separate policies, no gaps.
What's covered →Old payroll was painful.
We rebuilt it.
Most UK payroll providers are still running 1990s software with a friendlier login screen. We started fresh, built around how recruitment agencies, contractors and finance teams actually work in 2026.
Traditional payroll
- ×Payslips that arrive two days late and contractors phoning to chase
- ×Three different suppliers for umbrella, PAYE and pensions
- ×A "support team" that takes 48 hours to reply by email
- ×Hidden setup fees, monthly minimums and surprise charges at year-end
- ×IR35 and HMRC compliance left to whoever was free that week
Done properly
- ✓Same-day Faster Payments, every pay run, no exceptions
- ✓One team for umbrella, PAYE, pensions and reporting
- ✓A real human on the phone within two rings
- ✓Per-payslip pricing. £20 umbrella, £6 managed PAYE plus VAT. That's it.
- ✓SafePAYE accredited, HMRC RTI compliant, fully insured
Software that finally
earns its keep.
Same-day pay runs, with the maths already checked.
Process hundreds of payslips in under ten minutes, with RTI submissions, pension contributions and statutory deductions all reconciled before you've finished your coffee. We integrate directly with HMRC, NEST, The People's Pension and Smart Pension, so nothing waits for tomorrow.
First month with Faversham, our pay run took 40 minutes flat. Used to take two people the better part of a day.
Pay run · Apr 2026
SafePAYE accredited. HMRC compliant. Properly insured.
Faversham is accredited by SafePAYE, the UK's specialist umbrella accreditation body. Every contractor sits inside a fully HMRC-compliant PAYE structure with full indemnity cover. No offshore loans, no disguised remuneration, no schemes that fall apart the moment HMRC looks twice.
After a bad experience with a previous umbrella, the SafePAYE accreditation was the deciding factor. Faversham just work.
SafePAYE
A real human picks up the phone in under thirty seconds.
Every client gets a named account manager based in our UK office. No offshore call centres, no chatbot triage, no ticket numbers. Just someone who knows your business, your contractors and what last week's pay run looked like.
I know my account manager by name. She knows my business. That's how the rest of professional services used to work.
Words from people who stayed.
We moved 200 contractors over a single weekend. Zero failed RTI submissions, zero late payments. The migration team genuinely knew what they were doing.
I've used four UK payroll providers in fifteen years. Faversham is the first one I'd actually recommend out loud.
The £20 umbrella fee is transparent and that's it. No 'admin charges', no 'processing fees', no quarterly surprises. After two years with a different provider, this alone was worth the switch.
Our finance team got a week of their month back. £6 per payslip and someone else handles the whole thing. Should have switched two years ago.
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
No bolt-ons, no upgrade tiers, no premium support packages. The price you see is the price you pay, and these are included from day one.
HMRC RTI Submissions
Real Time Information filed on the day you run payroll. Never miss a deadline.
P60s, P45s & P11Ds
All year-end documents prepared and distributed automatically.
Auto-Enrolment
Workplace pension compliance handled, including NEST, Smart Pension and The People's Pension.
Same-Day Faster Payments
Pay run signed off in the morning, money in accounts by lunch.
Full Indemnity Insurance
£10m EL, £10m PL and £5m PI included for every umbrella contractor.
Online Portal
Contractors and finance teams view payslips, P60s and tax documents instantly.
Named Account Manager
One person who knows your business. Direct line, direct email.
SafePAYE Accreditation
Independently audited compliance, reviewed annually.
HMRC Compliance
PAYE structures reviewed by qualified payroll specialists, not software.
£20 per umbrella payslip.
£6 per managed payslip + VAT.
That's the whole price list.
No setup fees. No onboarding charges. No minimum tenure. No "premium tier" you need to upgrade to so things actually work. Pay for what you process, change your mind whenever you want.
- SafePAYE accredited
- Full indemnity insurance
- Same-day Faster Payments
- Online contractor portal
- HMRC RTI compliant
- Named account manager
- Full PAYE administration
- RTI submissions to HMRC
- Auto-enrolment pensions
- P60s, P45s, P11Ds included
- Year-end returns handled
- Named account manager
Switch your payroll
in two weeks.
Not in two quarters.
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