Welcome to Ask Avril

Personal Assistant (PA)

Would you like your very own Personal Assistant (PA) to support you and your business?

Hand over your admin and find time for your business, your home life and for you too!

Your time is valuable, isn’t it better spent on doing the important things to grow your business?

Such as managing your customers’ billable work and finding new customers.

Ask Avril will support to organise your To Do list and discuss with you what you can delegate now to free up your time.

Would that be valuable to you and your business?

Would you like to have your own PA to get things done for you?

What would you do with more time once you have handed over your admin?

Want to have a free consultation. Contact Ask Avril now for further details.

Ask Avril can take care of the following tasks:

E-Mail Management
Diary and Appointment Management
Travel Arrangements and Itineraries
TO DO List Managment
Event Co-ordination and Management

Web Site Updating and Maintenance
Presentation Preparation
Word Processing
Spread Sheet Design and Management
Data Entry

Research
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Updating contacts in your CRM system
Purchase and Sales Ledger Management.

Your time is valuable. What tasks can you delegate to give yourself time to grow your business?

We work with our clients and their needs to ensure that the right administrative procedures are in place to provide that support now and in the future as your business grows.

Ask Avril provides bespoke administration support to micro and small business owners. If you do not see what you are looking for in the list above then please just Ask!.

It would be more cost effective for you to hand over your regular admin tasks or one off projects to a qualified professional rather than trying to do everything yourself.

Ask Avril is a Xero Certified Advisor.

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.

About

Avril is a qualified Personal Assistant (PA) with many years of administration and secretarial experience.

Avril was previously a volunteer with Leamington and Warwick Sea Cadet Unit and served for 16 years. Roles held were: Office of Chair for five years and Petty Officer Instructor for 11 years. She enjoyed the challenges of the Unit management and working with young people from 10 to 18 year to help them realise their aspirations.

Avril spent eight years as an Internal Quality Auditor and Quality Representative.

Avril has worked for both large and small businesses such as IBM, Entec, LawNet, Lantra, Warwick Hospital, Docker Foods and A R Botten & Sons Ltd so has knowledge of small and large business needs.

Avril is a co-opted School Governor at Whitnash Community School.

Avril works with all types of business such as: Theatre, Recruitment Agents, Private Landlords, Education, Psychologists, Golf Pro’s, Will Writers, Accountants to name a few.

Products and Services

Tailored to your business needs.

Simply Organised Package

Ask Avril will get your TO Do list organised and put simple administrative processes in place, so that you are back on track.

Ask Avril offers administrative support either on an hourly, weekly or monthly basis and the service is bespoke to you and your business needs.

Email Management Services

Limit the amount of time you spend checking emails and switch off email alerts.

Consider how many hours you are wasting checking emails each week.

Ask Avril offers an Email Management Service where they check and filter your emails for you.

How many hours would that free up each week to work on the more important things?

Project Work

Are you dealing with large amounts of Project Work?

Ask Avril can help support and manage your Task Lists for you

Ensuring that your timelines are always in mind and taking care of any administrative tasks that require attention to ensure the smooth running of your project.

Why not start with a specific project and put us to the test.

Process driven business growth

Ask Avril can support your business to enable you to have administrative processes and work instructions in place documenting how specific business tasks need to be handled by others.

This will enable you to run your business now and plan for the future when you recruit new members of staff.

Ask Avril can provide a workshop for your staff to get them started on this journey.

I have eight years of experience as an Internal Quality Auditor and Department Representative.

Testimonials

Avril performed the tasks efficiently at the agreed time on my behalf and my customer didn't realise that I was out of the country at the time. I would have no hesitation in recommending Avril to my business associates. Click here for full testimonial.

Chris Wright, Your Perfect Escape

Since working with Avril for one month I have already had 800 new business contacts added to my Mailchimp account and the new Mailchimp site up and ready to use. All of which I didn’t have the time to do myself. Quite simply, but most importantly, she does what she says she’ll do.

Anon, Trainer

Avril, I just wanted to say what a great job you’re doing in the secretary role, and with helping to promote and organise events. It’s much appreciated and I’m really glad to have you on board.

Chrissie, Photographer

Thank you for the minutes – they were very comprehensive….I agree with Becky that the list of action points at the end is really useful.

Ann, Governer

I have known Avril for a good while now and would strongly endorse the services she provides. She is the ultimate professional, the one that you would want representing your business with her VA services. Friendly, efficient and really helpful. A great listener (and singer!) who goes that extra mile to make you feel valued.

Sue, Consultant

Avril has one of those can do positive attitudes and always meets you with a smile. She is a pleasure to work with. Avril input all of my customer data on to a CRM platform which saved me hours of work, which I could then spend on meeting with some prospective clients for my new marketing business instead. She is a reliable PA who gets things done quickly and to a high quality

Lin, Marketing

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.

Data Protection Policy

Website Terms of Use Policy

Avril James is ICO registered.

Registration number : ZA283527

Contact Us

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

Mobile: 07791 708 279Email: avril@askavril.co.uk