Clarity VA

Clarity VA Are you a creative/small business owner? Need help and support? Want to diversify - get in touch! I work hard, act, sing, and perform.

My name is Mary Browne, and I live in Walthamstow with my husband and opera-singing daughter. I was brought up in Liverpool but have lived in London for the last 30 years. I also work on my garden and allotment and enjoy cooking and eating out with family and friends. After a successful career in Adult Education, most recently 26 years as an English Lecturer and Curriculum Manager at a further edu

cation college, I set up Clarity VA. This initiative enables me to use my skills in administration, project management, and client liaison to help small businesses while allowing me control over my work and the opportunity to build a more flexible lifestyle. Clarity VA offers you, the small business owner, operational support and practical help so you can focus on the critical things: your clients, increasing your productivity, developing new leads or products, boosting your online presence, and, maybe, even giving you back some time to spend with your loved ones. Clarity VA also creates opportunities for adults (19+) to engage in workshops that help them re-discover their creative, fun-loving selves and experience sharing space with other storytellers. Participants will improve their communication skills, spontaneity, ability to listen, and ability to work openly with the truth and in the moment. Workshops may be a few hours, all day, or several sessions. They are aimed at working actors wanting to improve skills, and people who want to gain confidence and have fun. Ask yourself the following questions:

Are you feeling pulled in too many directions? Are you overwhelmed by admin tasks and humdrum stuff? Are you desperate to delegate? Do you want to get better at listening to your scene partner? Are you self-taping but not getting anywhere? Want to work on using props, improvising, and making connections? If you answer yes to any of these questions, please book a Clarity Call with me to discuss how I can help. I am committed to your success! Clarity VA Services is owned and run by Mary Browne is professionally insured through Policy Bee and is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

I am really pleased to announce that I have passed my final, closed book exam with a distinction and am now a Certified ...
22/01/2026

I am really pleased to announce that I have passed my final, closed book exam with a distinction and am now a Certified Bookkeeper and able to use the letters, MICB after my name.

Soon I will be offering Bookkeeping services to my Clarity clients, knowing that I am a licensed member of the largest bookkeeping institute in the world and adhering to their professional standards and ethics.

I look forward to what the future holds. I truly believe that you are never too old to try something different and continue to learn and develop new skills.

Thanks, Mary Browne MICB
www.clarityworks.uk
[email protected]

25/12/2025

Happy Christmas to all!! Enjoy and have a relaxing time. Best wishes. M###

02/12/2025
We’ve just added bookkeeping to the list of services we offer at Clarity so get in touch if you need help with yours. ma...
02/12/2025

We’ve just added bookkeeping to the list of services we offer at Clarity so get in touch if you need help with yours.

[email protected]
www.clarityworks.uk

Think about the tasks you’d like to delegate and I’m sure I could help you - take a breath.

It’s been quite a long time since I last posted anything on Clarity VA.  Quite a lot has been happening over the last 2/...
15/10/2025

It’s been quite a long time since I last posted anything on Clarity VA. Quite a lot has been happening over the last 2/3 months but more of that in the next newsletter. One thing I’ve been working very hard at, is developing more useful skills to help my lovely clients. So after a number of weeks of hard work studying, I passed my ICB Bookkeeping Module 4 - Bookkeeping for Sole Traders exam with a Distinction. Can’t tell you how pleased I am!

I’m adding these fabulous bookkeeping skills to my offer at Clarity. Please do get in touch for a chat if you would like help and support with your business, creative ideas, planning and organising and bookkeeping - I’m particularly interested in working with small businesses, creatives and Sole Traders who would like support with preparing their financial records, setting up practical online record keeping, cleaning up their paper financial records and helping move to MTD (Making Tax Digital).

I’m really looking forward to potentially working with you in the future.

www.clarityworks.co.uk
[email protected]

On my way to becoming a qualified bookkeeper, passed Level 2 ICB Bookkeeping. Level 3 started.  All good skills and expe...
25/05/2025

On my way to becoming a qualified bookkeeper, passed Level 2 ICB Bookkeeping. Level 3 started. All good skills and experiences to add to what I can offer my clients at Clarity. Keep your eyes open!!!!

Thank you to everyone who completed the survey for our creative theatre piece project - Invisible Women. We have had aro...
31/03/2025

Thank you to everyone who completed the survey for our creative theatre piece project - Invisible Women. We have had around 40 responses and are now thoroughly enjoying reading all about your experiences, feelings and thoughts about being an older woman and dealing with the idea of invisibility. Long way to go still but great work so far.

If you didn’t manage to complete the survey, there’s still time and we would be very interested in hearing your thoughts. This is the original message that went out with the link to the survey.

For the women in this group. The Invisible Women's Project

Can you help me, Mary Browne and my friend and collaborator, Sam Powell in our research?

“We are researching the experience women have as they get older: how they feel, how they are treated, how they are perceived.”

Our aim is “to create a piece of theatre which will explore this period in women's lives.”

Here’s the link to their survey, which is to gather information.
https://lnkd.in/eVAjxQti

It’s anonymous and confidential.

There are some questions which ask you to explain in your own words how you feel. The words you choose are hugely important to us, as it helps to really pinpoint how you feel. For example - one woman's retirement is freedom, while another's represents isolation.

If you do not want to answer a particular question - then don't. No need to explain. Any answers you choose to give us are helpful.

As your words are so important in telling the story of being an older woman or your perceptions as a younger woman - we would very much like to include some of your phrases, perhaps even the occasional longer passages you have written, as we would like our work to have a verbatim element to it. Again, these would be completely anonymous.

If you would prefer us NOT to use any of your phrases, please make that clear at the end of the survey”

Or you can contact them direct.

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

18/03/2025

An updated link for our “Invidible Women’s Project” survey - new participants can use this. If you’ve already completed the survey, then just click on you original link and the new section will be there (I hope!). Thanks.

The Invisible Women's ProjectCan you help myself and Sam Powell in our research?“We are researching the experience women...
18/03/2025

The Invisible Women's Project

Can you help myself and Sam Powell in our research?

“We are researching the experience women have as they get older: how they feel, how they are treated, how they are perceived.”

Their aim is “to create a piece of theatre which will explore this period in women's lives.”

Here’s the link to their survey, which is to gather information.
https://lnkd.in/eVAjxQti

It’s anonymous and confidential.

Here’s what we say about our survey:

“There are some questions which ask you to explain in your own words how you feel. The words you choose are hugely important to us, as it helps to really pinpoint how you feel. For example - one woman's retirement is freedom, while another's represents isolation.”

“If you do not want to answer a particular question - then don't. No need to explain. Any answers you choose to give us are helpful.”

“As your words are so important in telling the story of being an older woman or your perceptions as a younger woman - we would very much like to include some of your phrases, perhaps even the occasional longer passages you have written, as we would like our work to have a verbatim element to it. Again, these would be completely anonymous.”

They also say:
“If you would prefer us NOT to use any of your phrases, please make that clear at the end of the survey”

Or you can contact them direct.

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

You can also follow on Instagram to see more.
28/01/2025

You can also follow on Instagram to see more.

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Walthamstow
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Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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