From Bronze to Gold in four months and what our June 2026 recognition means for the way we support your business.
For a lot of business owners across Sussex and Surrey, “HR software” still means a login nobody quite remembers the password for, and a folder of contracts and policies scattered across email threads. Getting this right matters more than ever, with the Employment Rights Act 2025 now working its way into everyday HR practice.
That’s why we’re pleased to share that Breathe HR named MJV Consulting its Partner of the Month for June 2026- recognition announced by Tom Romer, our Partner Account Manager at Breathe (Tom’s LinkedIn post can be found here), for how we’ve rolled out Breathe across our client base and helped business owners turn it into something they actually rely on, day to day.
From Bronze to Gold in four months
A little over four months ago, MJV Consulting held Bronze partner status with Breathe.
We moved to Silver within two months, and on to Gold shortly after which is a steady, consistent progression built on full-service implementations that clients actually use: onboarding designed around how a business really works, adoption of modules like Learn, Expenses, and Rota, Time & Attendance, and ongoing support that means clients call us, not a support ticket queue, when something needs sorting.
The team are delighted to be recognised for our recent success and from a Partner Programme of over 1400 partners this recognition is as much a reflection our in-house HRIS expertise as it is of MJV’s wider HR consultancy service.
What Partner of the Month actually means for your business
This type of recognition on its own doesn’t change your day-to-day HR admin.
What it reflects is our business HR experience and everything that comes with it in terms of supporting first-time Line Managers, Employee Relations work through to Employment Rights Act 2025 updates. It means our team has configured Breathe across a genuinely wide range of businesses, which means we’ve already solved the scheduling quirks of a catering business, the compliance needs of an independent school and the site-based absence tracking an electrical contractor needs. It also reflects our close working relationship with Breathe’s own team, which gives us confidence when supporting clients through system changes and new module rollouts.
In practical terms, our Breathe product experience and product knowledge has enabled us to shorten implementation times, avoid some of those common configuration mistakes and gets your team actually using the system, rather than falling back on spreadsheets within a few months.
Putting the Employment Rights Act 2025 into practice, with Breathe
We recently ran a webinar with Tom at Breathe, focused specifically on the Employment Rights Act 2025 changes and how they play out for small businesses in Sussex and Surrey. The conversation moved beyond the legal detail and into what it actually means operationallyand how contracts, policies and those new day-one rights need to be recorded and evidenced and how a platform like Breathe keeps that information secure, current, and easy to produce if it’s ever needed.
For business owners without a dedicated HR team, this is often where the real value sits. You don’t need to become an expert in employment law, you need your people admin stored properly, updated consistently, and accessible when a question comes up. That’s where the Fair Work Agency (FWA) will be ready to take action in some cases. That is, ultimately, the gap we help close. If you haven’t already, it’s worth reading our breakdown of the Employment Rights Act 2025 changes here for the detail behind what Breathe is helping our clients manage.
Visit our YouTube channel below to watch the webinar in full.
Real implementations across Sussex, Surrey and London
Over the past year, we’ve delivered full Breathe implementations for businesses including:
- A London-based recruitment business, managing a fast-moving, distributed team
- A specialist electrical contractor serving the South East, with site-based staff and variable schedules
- An independent school, with year-round compliance and safeguarding requirements
- A catering business, managing shift patterns and seasonal staffing peaks
- A team of building surveyors, working across multiple client sites
Every one of these businesses uses Breathe differently, because every one of them is different.
Some chose to adopt Rota and Time & Attendance to help with the scheduling of shifts; others get most of their value from Learn or Expenses. Part of a good implementation is knowing which modules actually solve a given business’s problems, rather than switching everything on and hoping it sticks, you can see the full scope of our Breathe HR software support on our services page.
What’s new in Breathe this year and why it matters to your business
Breathe is a platform that keeps moving, and this year has brought a genuinely useful set of updates:
- Overhauled Expenses module
- A new mobile app for iOS and Android
- Refinements to the Learn module
- Updates to the Health & Safety module.
For clients, the mobile app in particular has made a real difference where staff can submit leave requests, log expenses, or complete training modules from their phone, which matters most for teams that aren’t sitting at a desk all day, like site-based contractors or care staff.
Keeping pace with this kind of development is part of what Gold partner status gives us early sight of, and part of why we make sure existing clients are getting the most from features they may not even know have landed.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Breathe HR Partner of the Month?
It’s a recognition given by Breathe HR to a partner consultancy that has demonstrated strong delivery in implementing Breathe for clients, including module adoption and ongoing support. MJV Consulting was named Breathe HR Partner of the Month in recognition of its implementation work across Sussex, Surrey, and London.
What does going from Bronze to Gold Breathe partner status mean?
Breathe’s partner tiers (Bronze, Silver, Gold) reflect the depth and volume of successful client implementations a partner has delivered. MJV Consulting progressed from Bronze to Gold in a little over four months, reflecting rapid, high-quality delivery across a growing client base.
How does Breathe help with the Employment Rights Act 2025?
Breathe provides a secure digital platform for storing contracts, policies, and employee records, making it easier for small businesses to keep the documentation and evidence trail that recent employment law changes require, without relying on scattered spreadsheets or email.
Which Breathe modules does MJV Consulting implement?
MJV Consulting has delivered client adoption across a range of Breathe modules including Learn, Expenses, and Rota, Time & Attendance, tailoring each implementation to the specific needs of the business.
Is Breathe suitable for small businesses in Sussex and Surrey?
Yes. Breathe is designed to scale with growing SMEs, and MJV Consulting has implemented it for a wide range of small and medium-sized businesses across Sussex, Surrey, and London, including recruiters, contractors, schools, and catering businesses.
