The paperworkis the easy part
Moving to Guernsey is well served by lawyers, agents and Locate Guernsey. What nobody is paid to care about is whether you are still here in three years. That is the whole of my work.
What this actually is
Most people who leave Guernsey do not leave because of the job. They leave because the family never landed. A partner who arrived with a career and ended up with neither work nor a network. Children who took longer to settle than anyone expected. A second winter that finally settles the argument.
I have spent decades on this island knowing who is who. The work is spending that deliberately, on the families who arrive, one introduction at a time.
Two ways this works
For people moving here
Twelve months, the whole household, £7,500. Paid by you or by your employer. The same programme either way, because it is the same job.
Read how it worksFor businesses setting up here
Incorporation is well handled. Becoming part of the island is not. Bespoke, priced on application.
Read about establishing a businessStart with the guide. It is free and it always will be.
Seventeen pages on what it is actually like to move here. What a GP appointment costs, why rents have risen nearly 45% in five years, which permits stop your family coming with you, what February is really like, and how long it takes before the place feels like home.
Every other guide to moving to Guernsey is selling something. This one tells you the difficult parts, sources every claim, and carries the date it was last checked.
What you actually get
Introductions, not networking
Three to five deliberate introductions in the first month, chosen for your family by someone who already knows who is who. This is the actual product. Everything else supports it.
The whole household
The person with the job is rarely the one who struggles. Partners and children get the same attention as the employee, because they are the ones who decide whether you stay.
Someone to ring
One named person for the whole first year, who is working for you and not for anyone else, and will tell you the truth about how it is going.
Who you would be working with
Welcome Aboard is new. The work behind it is not.
Marc Winn
Founder
I am good at one thing. Knowing who should meet whom, and then making it happen.
That sounds slight until you try to do it. It takes knowing a lot of people properly rather than superficially, being trusted enough that they take the call, and having some feel for who will actually get on. I have been doing it on this island for twenty years, mostly unpaid, because I find it genuinely interesting.
The evidence is the practice rather than the job titles. I once had fifty deliberate coffees with people I did not know, to see what would happen, and wrote about it. I have started things here that needed dozens of people to say yes before they could exist. None of that happened because of a position I held. It happened because I could get the right people into a room.
Welcome Aboard is that, offered as a service rather than as a favour.
Some places are free
If you are arriving on an ordinary wage and this is out of reach, ask me. Median earnings here were £42,672 in the year to June 2024 and average rent is £2,170 a month. Arriving on a normal wage is hard, and the people who most need somebody in their corner are the least able to buy one.