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How we started
Office Helper was founded by Helen Winder in March 2004. The idea came from personal experience of both parents running different businesses. They would work through the day ‘doing the doing’ and then come home in the evening to continuing ‘doing the doing’ but this time with the paper work, books, vat returns, wages, invoicing, marketing, telephone calls etc.
After many years of working in corporate, Helen took a break to raise her family. When it was time to return to work Helen did not want to return to the corporate world working for someone else but instead wanted to create a company that would provide support to people like her parents. To take away those ‘doing the doing’ tasks as these took up valuable ‘self’ time.
So, using the knowledge, skills and experience that she had gained over the years – Office Helper was born in the spare room at home with just Helen. A few months later the business had got to the stage where additional hands were needed and so the first employee was engaged.
Business grew from strength to strength and within 6 months of starting out Office Helper was supporting 12 regular clients and ad hoc project work. Then in June 2006 Helen and her husband Graham Winder decided it was time to take the company to the next stage. Graham was to leave corporate life and join Helen on the journey of success.
Office Helper was based in a home office until September 2006 with 4 people supporting clients when it was decided that professional premises were needed to support the fast growing retainer clients and project work. So, on 25th September 2006 Office Helper relocated to modern high-tech offices. None of the 40 clients, which were being supported at the time knew that the move had taken place until a few weeks later when one asked ‘So, when do you move?’. They were completely shocked when we told them it had already happened and they complimented us on the uninterrupted service we provided – what an achievement!
Office Helper has become a market leader in outsourcing ‘virtual’ business solutions. The company has developed business divisions under the Office Helper banner to make it simpler for clients to recognise the areas of support they may require; XanCall – Call and Contact centre, ExecAssist – Executive PA support, ProXorce – Business Process Operations, Formulae – Consultancy services.
Where we are now
Office Helper has become a market leader in outsourcing ‘virtual’ business solutions. Business divisions have been developed to support the vast variety of clients Office Helper supports. Dedicated teams of people have been chosen to support these divisions so they can concentrate their skills and knowledge within these divisions. But at the same time as concentrating the skills within the divisions our clients are able to make use of all the other divisions, services and all the skills within the team. Just imagine having the skills set that Office Helper has to hand as and when you need them. To have this range would cost you on average 2,500 pounds per month plus the overheads but by engaging Office Helper you only need to pay for what you use or as we say ‘pay as you use’.
Helen Winder
Founder & Partner