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Jon Bond is a Guernsey-based business owner, non-executive director and chairman, and one of the Channel Islands\u2019 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 \u2014 two organisations that sit at the heart of daily island life in ways that most businesses never get close to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where he shares his insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2014 close to its clients, precise in its work, and deeply embedded in the community it serves. More at EvansBond.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As non-executive chairman of CI Co-op, Jon helps steward one of the Channel Islands\u2019 most important community institutions \u2014 a retailer that serves tens of thousands of people across the islands and holds a unique balance between commercial discipline and genuine community purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2014 food, medicine, building supplies, mail \u2014 arrives by sea. Jon sits on the board that keeps that artery open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Blog<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jon has spent years watching, thinking, and forming views about the Channel Islands \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He writes about four things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governance and board life<\/em> \u2014 what non-executive roles actually look like in small organisations serving real communities, and what a decade of doing it has taught him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running a small business<\/em> \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The island economy<\/em> \u2014 not the press release version, but the texture underneath. What\u2019s working, what\u2019s being quietly squeezed, and what deserves more attention than it gets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community and charitable contribution<\/em> \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get in touch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Small Island, Big Thinking<\/em> \u2014 published from Guernsey, read further afield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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