our clients

Our passion and zest comes from working with likeminded clients. Smart, progressive, fun-loving free-thinkers one and all:

duties to temporary and contract personnel

Meadows Consulting Ltd (trading as Meadows) will: 

1. Treat temporary and contract staff with respect and dignity as befits their important role in the success and standing of the staffing industry.

2. Provide a full written contract or terms of engagement to the temporary or contract worker at the appropriate time prior to the beginning of an assignment.

3. Pay temporary staff promptly and efficiently and as specified in the member's contract with temporary or contract workers.

4. State the pay rate due to a temporary or contract worker without ambiguity.

5. Communicate to temporary or contract workers any relevant information provided to them by clients, including information relating to health and safety matters.

6. Deduct PAYE and NI from remuneration to the temporary worker as required by law.


Meadows Consulting Ltd (trading as Meadows) shall – with specific reference to interviews:

1. Undertake to carry out an initial interview whenever possible in order to satisfy itself that the candidate is suitable for the advertised position for which he/she is being recommended. Where possible at least one reference shall be requested and followed up.

2. Make any necessary arrangements on behalf of candidates for interviews to be conducted with client companies and where appropriate will indicate exactly to what extent interview expenses will be met.

3. Keep candidates fully informed of the progress of their application following any client interview.

4. Honour any request by a candidate that particular information is to be treated as confidential and not revealed to third parties.

5. Put forward candidates only for positions for which they are suited.

6. Pay any remuneration due to contract personnel as and when due and without delay.


Meadows Consulting (trading as Meadows) undertakes:

1. Not to give misleading information to a candidate in order to influence his/her decision about a position or client company or put a candidate under undue pressure to cause him/her to attend an interview or accept a position.

how we work

Collaboratively. Transparently. Imaginatively. Within industry standards and guidelines:

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Meadows is responsible for IT recruitment in the UK for Heinz: working closely with the management team to ensure the right level of skill and cultural fit across the organisation.
Meadows has recently renewed an exclusive contract to act as Master Vendor for all IT recruitment at IPC Media, where a close relationship with the IT Director has fostered smart recruitment.
For Tequila, the UK's #1 relationship marketing agency, Meadows continues to recruit a variety of technical resources.
Meadows has recently recruited several Business Analysts for Penguin Books.
Meadows has recently placed an IT services manager into Ford Retail: a position that had previously proved difficult to fill.
Meadows is responsible for IT recruitment at Macmillan, where he incorporates a high level of challenge with a fresh external perspective to help build a high performing IT team: from senior management to technical staff.
Meadows has been praised for sourcing hard-to-find senior IT staff for News International 'at the speed of light'.
Meadows provides IT recruitment services to Sportingbet, including both senior and technical roles.
Meadows is helping the geographically dispersed global IT group at Sara Lee to become a high performing team.