Ask Avril

Secretariat Services

Welcome to Ask Avril, Business Administrative Support

Struggling to keep up with admin? Free up your time and focus on what truly matters – growing your business and enjoying life!

Ask Avril helps busy professionals like you delegate admin tasks efficiently, giving you the space to:

Let’s organise your to-do list and identify what you can delegate today.

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What would you do with more time?

Ask Avril can support with the following tasks

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Your Time is Valuable – What Can You Delegate?

What tasks could you hand over to free up time to grow your business?

We work alongside our clients, tailoring support to their needs and ensuring the right administrative processes are in place – both now and as their business grows.

Ask Avril provides bespoke administrative support to micro and small business owners. If you don’t see what you need in the list above, just Ask Avril!

It’s more cost-effective to hand over your regular admin tasks or one-off projects to a qualified professional than to try and do everything.

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About Avril

Avril is a highly experienced and qualified Personal Assistant (PA) with extensive expertise in administration and secretarial support.

With a strong background in leadership and mentoring, Avril dedicated 16 years to the Leamington and Warwick Sea Cadet Unit, where she served as Chair for five years and as a Petty Officer Instructor for 11 years. She thrived on the challenges of unit management and found great fulfilment in guiding young people aged 10 to 18, helping them build confidence and achieve their aspirations.

Her experience also includes eight years as an Internal Quality Auditor and Quality Representative, further strengthening her ability to implement and maintain high standards in business operations

Avril has worked across both large and small businesses, including IBM, Entec, LawNet, Lantra, Warwick Hospital, Docker Foods, and A R Botten & Sons Ltd. This breadth of experience has given her a deep understanding of the unique needs of businesses of all sizes.

In addition to her professional experience, Avril was a co-opted School Governor at Whitnash Community School, demonstrating her commitment to education and community engagement.

Avril supports a wide range of industries, including theatre, recruitment, private landlords, education, psychology, accountants and medical practices supporting Doctor’s and Dentist’s to name just a few.

Ask Avril is also a founding member of the Virtual Assistant Network, a  collaborative group of 13 local VAs established to provide experienced and reliable services to businesses across the county.

Avril’s adaptability and expertise make her a trusted partner for businesses looking for professional and reliable support.

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Ask Avril is a Xero Certified Advisor

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If you are looking for a Cloud based accounts system to ensure you are ready for Making Tax Digital (MTD) then Ask Avril is able to help you to get set up on Xero.

We can support your business with your general bookkeeping requirements such as Purchase/Sales Ledger, chasing overdue bills, ensuring all bills are paid in a timely manner, bank reconciliation and providing reports from the Xero system to support you and the information about your product or service making your end of year easier.

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Products and Services

Tailored to your business needs

Simply Organised Package

Ask Avril helps you take control of your to-do list by putting simple, effective admin processes in place, so you can focus on what matters.

Support is flexible - available hourly, weekly, or monthly, and always tailored to suit you and your business.

Email Management Services

Spend less time in your inbox and more time on what matters.

Ask Avril’s Email Management Service helps you stay focused by filtering and organising your emails - cutting out distractions and freeing up valuable hours each week for high-priority tasks.

Project Work

Managing a busy project? Ask Avril can support you by organising task lists, keeping timelines on track, and handling the admin that keeps everything running smoothly.

Start with a specific project and see how much easier things become with expert support behind you.

Process-Driven Business Growth

Ask Avril helps you create clear admin processes and work instructions so key tasks can be handled by others - perfect for scaling your business or onboarding new staff.

With years of quality auditing experience, Ask Avril also offers team workshops to get you started.

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Policies

Why are policies in place?

To ensure that we are compliant with GDPR and that you know that our business is run under the guidelines of the ICO and its membership.

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Avril James is ICO registered.

Registration number : ZA283527

Contact Us

You can contact us by calling, emailing or completing the contact form to discuss your requirements.