Jon Bond is a Guernsey-based business owner, non-executive director and chairman, and one of the Channel Islands’ most grounded voices on island economy, governance, and community. He runs Evans Bond, an accounting and advisory firm, and sits on the boards of CI Co-op and Sark Shipping — two organisations that sit at the heart of daily island life in ways that most businesses never get close to.
This is where he shares his insights.
The Business
Jon founded Evans Bond to help people flourish through accounting and wider advisory support to businesses and individuals in Guernsey. The firm is small by design — close to its clients, precise in its work, and deeply embedded in the community it serves. More at EvansBond.com.
The Boards
As non-executive chairman of CI Co-op, Jon helps steward one of the Channel Islands’ most important community institutions — a retailer that serves tens of thousands of people across the islands and holds a unique balance between commercial discipline and genuine community purpose.
At Sark Shipping, the stakes are different and in some ways starker. Sark has no airport, no cars, and a year-round population of around 500 people. Everything they need — food, medicine, building supplies, mail — arrives by sea. Jon sits on the board that keeps that artery open.
The Blog
Jon has spent years watching, thinking, and forming views about the Channel Islands — its economy, its businesses, its institutions, and the community that holds it all together. Small Island, Big Thinking is where those views are finally published.
He writes about four things:
Governance and board life — what non-executive roles actually look like in small organisations serving real communities, and what a decade of doing it has taught him.
Running a small business — the operational reality, not the highlight reel. Leadership, delegation, team-building, and the specific challenges of building something in a market where everyone knows everyone.
The island economy — not the press release version, but the texture underneath. What’s working, what’s being quietly squeezed, and what deserves more attention than it gets.
Community and charitable contribution — the organisations and people providing the social fabric of island life, and why Jon believes business leaders have both a stake and a responsibility in supporting them.
Jon writes as someone on the ground – not an economist, a politician, or a journalist, but a business owner who sits in boardrooms and cares deeply about the place where he lives and works.
Get in touch
Jon is on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook under his own name, and publishes new pieces here regularly. For speaking enquiries, board conversations, or simply to continue a discussion started here, he can be reached via the contact page.
Small Island, Big Thinking — published from Guernsey, read further afield.