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:
- Manage billable work
- Find new customers
- Reclaim time for yourself
Let’s organise your to-do list and identify what you can delegate today.
Ask Avril can support with the following tasks
- Email Management – Organise, filter, and respond to emails efficiently
- Diary & Appointment Scheduling – Keep your calendar structured and stress-free
- Task & To-Do List Management – Prioritise and track tasks for maximum productivity
- Word Processing – Accurate, well-formatted documents tailored to your needs
- Spreadsheet Design & Management – Organized, efficient data tracking and analysis
- Data Entry & Processing – Fast, accurate input and management of information
- Research & Information Gathering – Accurate, in-depth insights to support your business
- Transcription Services – Clear, precise documentation of meetings, calls, and notes
- CRM Updates & Contact Management – Keep your client database organized and up to date
- Purchase & Sales Ledger Management – Efficient tracking of income and expenses
- And Much More...

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.

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.

Ask Avril is a Xero Certified Advisor
Click here to view Certificate.
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.

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
Testimonials




Your kind, sensitive, funny, and all round a great person to have in our corner. Just some of the things you have helped us with are our tenant viewing process and experience, our property portfolio management, and my horrendous e-mail inbox!
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend your services to anyone who needs them, and I hope that you'll be coming on board with us at Aben Interiors too in the very near future (if you want to!). Thank you Avril."

Avril has began working with us and as quickly reorganised our account’s structure and provides helpful pragmatic advice on our records and how we can improve our processes to make our small company more efficient. In a company such as ours we do not have the ability or full-time need for our own finance and admin section but Avril combines both for us in an approach and manner that suits us perfectly."

Avril is extremely thorough, makes sure that we all know what we are doing at each and every meeting, is usually one of the first to arrive, confidently sets everything up ready for the meeting and does so much work behind the scenes. I should know as I am possibly the world’s worst at technology and having presented my 10 minutes last week it would not of happened if it wasn’t for Avril. I sent over the photographs and hey presto without a second thought I have slides to talk about during my presentation.
Avril is so calm and collected although she may be paddling like I don’t know what underneath the water it never comes across that way. Thank you very much for everything you have done for me and for our lovely group of Intrepidors".

We all want to delegate, but who can be trusted to understand and co-ordinate tasks to the standard we want? This is where Avril comes in. I’ve been working with Ask Avril for the past two years, and their PA services have been an absolute game-changer. From managing my emails to highlighting urgent tasks, Avril ensures the most important things don’t get missed.
They bring a rare mix of efficiency, reliability, and discretion. What sets them apart is their calm, can-do attitude and genuine care. Their support has freed me to focus on what I do best. I can’t recommend Ask Avril highly enough. If you're looking for top-notch PA services, look no further. All you have to do is, “Ask Avril”.

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.
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.
Mobile: 07791 708279
Office: 01926 945158
Email: avril@askavril.co.uk