Virtual Executive Assistant UK

A PA runs one person's working life: inbox, diary, travel, expenses. An executive assistant does that and works a level up: preparing your board and leadership meetings, managing the leadership team's calendars and stakeholders, owning the follow-ups and the projects you delegate, and making judgement calls inside the limits you set. The difference is judgement, not the task list.

From the calendar and the correspondence. Your EA reads the invitation, the thread and the last set of notes, prepares a one-page brief with the decisions due, and chases the papers from the people who owe them. You arrive with the brief, not the search for it.

Yes, in your name and within rules you set: who they may book, chase or decline on your behalf, and what needs your word. Senior EAs on the Expert tier have done this before for founders and directors; introductions are made at onboarding so the team knows the EA speaks for you.

Matched to the role. The Mid and Expert tiers exist for exactly this: people with longer experience supporting directors, who can be trusted with the board pack, the confidential thread and the stakeholder who needs handling. Every EA is recruited, trained and supervised from our own office, not sourced from a marketplace.

Start with the diary and the inbox, because they carry the rest: meeting preparation follows from the calendar, follow-ups follow from the correspondence. Expenses, travel and board preparation join in the second and third weeks once the rules are proven. By the end of the month the EA owns the operating rhythm of your week.

£5 per hour for the first 6 months on the Entry tier, then the admin rate card: £6.30 per hour full time (£1,008 a month for 160 hours) with Mid at £7.25 and Expert at £7.88 per hour full time, or £6.50 per hour part time (£520 a month for 80 hours). An in-house EA costs a UK salary plus employer costs, holiday and a desk; here the employment sits with us.