Virtual PA was born from a need to help small businesses. Based in the Ireland, I quickly realised that there are very few support services for Sole Traders and Small Businesses in the area. I started company secretarial work for the local community group and people soon realised how organised I was. I made things happen easily, whereas before the group had struggled to pull things together. The group then registered as a Limited Company and I was asked to be the Company Secretary for them. They realised that someone had to “control” all the paper work and make sure returns where made on time, documents were in order for inspection and generally, records kept correctly. For me it was easy but for others it would have been hard.