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.
“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.”
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.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →£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 →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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Real Time Information filed on the day you run payroll. Never miss a deadline.
All year-end documents prepared and distributed automatically.
Workplace pension compliance handled, including NEST, Smart Pension and The People's Pension.
Pay run signed off in the morning, money in accounts by lunch.
£10m EL, £10m PL and £5m PI included for every umbrella contractor.
Contractors and finance teams view payslips, P60s and tax documents instantly.
One person who knows your business. Direct line, direct email.
Independently audited compliance, reviewed annually.
PAYE structures reviewed by qualified payroll specialists, not software.
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.
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