Anna Varley - Virtual Assistant

01/10/2024

Enormous congratulations to everybody at After18, which has been shortlisted for Charity of the Year at the Leicestershire Community Champions Awards! I'm so proud to be working with you 🥰 Wishing all the finalists the very best of luck 🤞🏼🏆

Congratulations to the Charity of the Year shortlist! 🌟

03/09/2024

I got to spend the whole day with my brilliant daughter when her GCSE results came out last month (👇🏼 this is us eating gelato after a lovely celebratory lunch with one of her besties 🥰)

I love my job, but my number one most important role in life is being Ella’s mum. She is without doubt, hands down, my greatest achievement, and being able to dedicate the whole day to celebrating hers was an honour and a privilege 😊

Starting AV-VA last year as a single parent was a huge risk financially, but one of my biggest drivers was gaining the flexibility to be present for my daughter throughout such an important year.

Striking a balance between lone parenting and paying the bills has often meant throwing the conventional business rulebook out of the proverbial window, but luckily for me I happened upon an alternative - Laura From Worditude’s Comfy Business Playbook.

It’s a fabulous read if:

✔️ you have a business that needs to fit around ALL your life priorities, and you could do with a pep talk to remind you that this is a completely worthy, acceptable and wonderful aspiration to have,

or

✔️ you dream of that, and want to find out how it’s possible for you.

The Comfy Business Playbook was released in print last month, but if you’d like to try before you buy, Laura has very kindly given me a coupon code to share, which lets you download the digital edition for FREE until the end of this week 🥳

If you’d like to take advantage, DM me the word 'COMFY' and I’ll reply with the code.

Link in the comments 😊

26/06/2024

Oh, the disappointment… 😩

I work from an office in the converted attic of my Victorian terraced house.

In the winter, it’s freezing. On super hot days… well, you can probably imagine 🥵

Yesterday my computer was overheating (and frankly, so was I) so I ordered a USB desk fan with next day delivery.

The doorbell rang at 3pm, and I eagerly rushed down two flights of stairs, desperate to get my fabulous new fan plugged in before either myself, or my PC, expired.

IMAGINE my surprise when I ripped open the package to reveal… a shower head 😐

Yay. Thanks Amazon 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️👍🏼

(Please excuse the hair. It’s humid up there 🧟‍♀️)

17/05/2024

Happy Friday, lovely people of Facebook!

As today is International VA Day, I thought it might be interesting to run a little poll…

*How familiar are you with Virtual Assistants (VAs) and what they do?*

Tell me your answer by reacting to this post as follows:

❤️ I know exactly what they do
👍🏼 I’ve got a rough idea
😯 I’ve heard of them, but…
😢 What’s a VA?

(If you picked one of the last two options, we need to talk! Message me the word ‘Eh?’ and I’ll be happy to give you the lowdown 😊)

29/04/2024

🎈🎉🥳 Happy 4th birthday to the Virtual Village Hall! 🥳🎉🎈

It’s been an honour and a privilege (not to mention ENORMOUS fun!) to work with Royal Voluntary Service supporting the delivery of the endlessly fabulous Virtual Village Hall this year.

Not many good things came out of the pandemic, but the VVH is most definitely one of them! Its importance in improving the lives of those who use it really can’t be overstated.

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For anybody who doesn’t already know, the Virtual Village Hall is an online activity hub which was created during lockdown to help keep people physically and mentally active, connected and having fun.

It offers a diverse array of FREE online sessions led by expert tutors, which cover everything from creative arts and crafts, music and singing, cooking and baking, dance and exercise, to IT skills. There really is something for everyone!

Through these activities, which are designed to be done at home, the VVH promotes mental and physical fitness and wellbeing, and provides a supportive community which helps combat loneliness and social isolation.

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Happy 4th birthday, Virtual Village Hall! May there be many, many more birthdays to come 🥰

🥳 The Virtual Village Hall is 4 today! 🥳

Four years ago today Royal Voluntary Service created the Virtual Village Hall in response the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then we've been moving and making as a community with hundreds of online activities every week!🥳

To all of you for tuning in over the last 4 years, the players of for supporting us and to ALL of our fantastic tutors for providing these sessions, we want to say thank you❤

Whether you've been here from the start or recently discovered us, we would LOVE to hear what the Virtual Village Hall has meant to you. Please do share any comments, pictures or videos of your time spent at the VVH in the comments below👇🏼

Happy Birthday Virtual Villagers! Here's to another year!🥳

11/03/2024

Are you feeling stuck, stressed and overwhelmed? 🤯 If you want to reduce your workload, streamline your processes, and have more time to focus on the things you love… I can help you get your ducks in a row 🦆🦆🦆

To find out more, please email anna@av-va.co.uk or call 07467 649190 for a no obligation chat.

I look forward to hearing from you 😊

07/01/2024

Now that the dust has settled after Christmas, have you started making big plans for the year ahead?

I can help you meet your targets and achieve your goals, whether the work you need to outsource is:

• administrative/secretarial (eg email monitoring, audio transcription, copy typing, word processing, document scanning, data entry, branding/standardising documentation)
• financial (eg book-keeping, invoicing, credit control)
• CRM (eg record-keeping, database admin, corporate cards/gifts)
• marketing (eg newsletters, mailshots, email campaigns, social media/website updates, copywriting)
• organisational (eg diary management, event planning, project management)
• operational (eg creating powerful spreadsheets, setting up/streamlining systems to reduce costs and improve efficiency)
• specialised (eg proofreading, research, software training)
• personal (eg making reservations, arranging travel, sending cards/flowers, finding tradespeople, sourcing gifts)

My services are fully bespoke and scalable and can either be accessed on an ongoing basis or as and when needed, without the commitment or overhead cost of employing somebody more permanently.

To find out more, please email anna@av-va.co.uk or call 07467 649190 for a no obligation chat about how I can help you get 2024 off to a flying start 😊

01/01/2024

✨ Happy New Year, everybody! Wishing you all happiness, good health and prosperity in the year ahead ✨

05/12/2023

Does your life currently resemble the first picture? Are you striving to achieve the second? Perhaps a virtual assistant is the answer!

If you could do with an extra pair of hands at this busy time of year, why not get in touch? I can help you meet your deadlines and achieve your goals, whether the work you need to outsource is:

- administrative/secretarial (eg email monitoring, audio transcription, copy typing, data entry, branding/standardising documentation)

- financial (eg book-keeping, invoicing, credit control)

- CRM (eg record-keeping, database admin, corporate Christmas cards/gifts)

- marketing (eg newsletters, mailshots, email campaigns, social media/website updates, copywriting)

- organisational (eg diary management, event planning, project management)

- operational (eg creating powerful spreadsheets, setting up/streamlining systems to reduce costs and improve efficiency, training)

- specialised (eg proofreading, research)

- personal (eg making reservations, arranging travel, sending flowers, finding tradespeople, sourcing gifts)

My services are fully bespoke and scalable and can be accessed as and when needed, without the commitment or overhead cost of employing somebody on a permanent basis.

To find out more, please email anna@av-va.co.uk or call 07467 649190 for a no obligation chat about how I can help bring order to your chaos 😉

Merry Christmas!

07/12/2017

Looking forward to working with our lovely friends at Herts for Learning in Stevenage again today!

30/06/2017

We're really excited to be taking over the ICT technical support at St John the Baptist Primary School in Leicester. The handover process started today - there certainly is a lot to learn!

13/06/2017

Our friends at LOROS, the Leicester hospice, are breaking new ground in the therapeutic use of virtual reality. This wonderful film shows one of their patients trying it out for the first time 😊

LOROS Hospice is using virtual reality to help patients experience life again as they battle terminal illnesses. We have commissioned and produced a special ...

15/05/2017

It's been an early start for a Monday morning! Well on my way to Stevenage to deliver a day of at Herts for Learning 🙂

02/05/2017

We hope you had a fab bank holiday! Today's shortcut works well with the last...

25/04/2017

‪ 's back for the summer term! Our next two shortcuts combine well - stay tuned! 👍🏻 ‬

24/03/2017

We're loving teaching ICT at St John the Baptist Primary School! Here's the game Year 6 are learning to code on Hopscotch: Creative Coding
https://c.gethopscotch.com/projects/ymdy7f9zt