A laptop screen displays the Penfold app’s employee management page for “Greedy Pig Inc.,” listing employees with details like status and enrollment dates. A smartphone nearby shows the Penfold app’s dashboard with a pension pot total of £12,994.54. To the right, three colleagues—two women and a man—smile and collaborate around a table in a casual office setting. The scene highlights teamwork and digital pension management tools.

Workplace pensions for small businesses

Give your team a pension they’ll actually use.

Penfold helps small businesses set up and manage workplace pensions, support employee financial wellbeing and get more value from one of their most important employee benefits.

Free for employers, easy to manage and fully auto-enrolment compliant.

Trusted by thousands of UK businesses

From ambitious startups to established SMEs, businesses across the UK trust Penfold to help their teams save for retirement.

A woman with curly red hair, wearing glasses, a white shirt, and a light green cardigan, looks down at her phone. Next to her is a mobile app interface for Penfold, showing a recent pension contribution of £400 from “Acme Inc.” The total pension pot value is displayed as £12,994.54, with options to transfer or add money. Below, recent pension transfer statuses are shown, along with a “Your forecast” section about retirement projections.

A pension that’s genuinely a benefit

For many employees, a pension is one of the most valuable benefits they receive. Yet most workplace pensions are rarely checked, poorly understood and largely forgotten.

Penfold helps employees understand their pension, track their savings and stay connected to their retirement goals.

That means your business can offer more than a compliance requirement – you can offer a benefit employees genuinely value.

Everything growing businesses need

Employee experience

Help employees understand and use their pension.

Simple administration

Easily manage contributions and employee activity.

Expert support

Get help from pension specialists when you need it.

Salary sacrifice implementation

Reduce National Insurance costs for your business.

Auto-enrolment compliance

Stay compliant with UK pension regulations.

Investment options

Carefully selected funds to suit different needs.

A woman in a brown blazer and white turtleneck works on a laptop in a warmly lit office. Overlaying graphics on the right display Slack-style messaging elements. “Team Penfold” includes channels like #saving-guides, #app-features, #pension-questions, and #community, with user icons for Maria, Steven, and Isabelle. Another box below shows a profile labeled “Ellie” with her photo and text lines

Built for busy business owners

Running a business is hard enough without complicated pension administration.

Penfold gives you clear visibility over contributions and employee activity, while our experts help support both you and your team.

Whether you’re hiring your first employees or managing a growing workforce, Penfold helps you stay on top of your pension responsibilities with confidence.

  • Easy employer dashboard

  • Clear visibility of contributions

  • Support for employers and employees

  • Simple ongoing administration

A set of four smartphones display different screens of the Penfold pension app on a pastel purple background. Screens include a performance graph of a “Level 4 Plan,” a total pension pot value of £12,994.54, transfer options, and recent pension transfer activities. Another screen encourages users to combine their pensions, with a button labeled “Combine pension.” The design emphasizes easy navigation, retirement planning, and tracking contributions.

Save money with salary sacrifice

Salary sacrifice can help reduce Employer National Insurance costs while increasing pension contributions for employees.

For growing businesses, this can mean meaningful savings alongside improved employee outcomes.

Penfold can help you understand the opportunity, calculate potential savings and support implementation if salary sacrifice is right for your business.

A person types on a laptop displaying a Penfold app screen labeled “Companies House details.” It shows information for a company called “Greedy Pig Inc” with an option to “Confirm company details.” Overlaid boxes include a “Complete set up” progress bar showing “3 / 2 completed” with green checkmarks and a five-star review titled “Always available,” praising Penfold’s customer support in setting up a workplace pension. A blue button labeled “Add employer” appears in the top left.

Already have a workplace pension?

Many businesses choose a pension provider when they first set up and never review it again.

As businesses grow, priorities often change. You may be looking for..

  • Better employee engagement
  • Easier administration
  • Improved support
  • Salary sacrifice opportunities
  • A more modern pension experience

If you’re reviewing your current workplace pension, Penfold can help you understand whether a switch could benefit your business and employees.

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Hear from some of our clients

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Everyone needs an auto-enrolment pension scheme, so why not use the best one? Penfold really stands out with the customer service it offers. They’re so much more flexible and on top of things than any other pension provider I’ve spoken to. Investment performance is most important, and Penfold’s historical performance is excellent.
Chris Binns
Chartered Financial Planner at MoneyWeb
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Penfold’s team of dedicated experts are super responsive and will help me with any kind of questions or queries that I might have. There’s no longer this restriction where I’m working as a kind of middleman. In fact, people can just go straight to the source and get whatever information they need. Penfold was absolutely amazing in terms of the education, the training, and all the administrative backlog that goes on with moving over pension providers. It ran so smoothly.
Aileen Walsh
People Operations Lead at Paddle
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Penfold is dramatically better than anything we’ve worked with before and has helped me by removing all of the admin that comes with pensions. ‘Saving time’ is one of the key benefits that encourages me to recommend it to others. Penfold’s been a huge success at Cuvva, with 88% of the company logging into the app to view their pensions.
Alex Perkins
Senior People Operations Partner at Cuvva
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