What this costs
Most people in this line of work will not tell you what they charge until you have had a call with them. That seemed like the wrong way to start a relationship built on straight answers, so here it is.
For employers
Every family goes through the same designed twelve month programme, delivered one to one. Start with the review. It tells you whether you have the problem before you spend anything on solving it.
Onboarding review
£4,000 fixed fee
The way in. An honest account of how your relocation and onboarding actually lands, based on talking to people who arrived in the last three years. It ends with a report, not a proposal.
The programme
£5,500 per family
The full twelve month programme, delivered one to one.
Annual programme
£27,000 for six families
An agreed number of families a year, with a standing point of contact for your people team.
A recruitment fee on a £70,000 hire typically runs to £14,000 or more, before relocation costs. This is a fraction of that, aimed at the reason those hires most often do not stay. More on the employer programme.
For private clients
The Landing
£7,500
The first ninety days.
The pre-arrival conversation with the whole family, orientation to how the island actually works, the first deliberate introductions, and the practical sequence sorted properly rather than in a panic. A sensible way to start without committing to a year.
The Year
£2,500 a month, or £27,000 paid annually
The full twelve months.
Everything in The Landing, then the part that actually determines whether you stay: introductions chosen for your family rather than your employer, support for a partner into work or community, children into things they enjoy, and a named person you can ring at any point in the first year.
Private clients are worked with one to one throughout.
For context, the average Open Market purchase in Guernsey in 2025 was £1,723,922. This is not the expensive part of your move. It is the part that decides whether the rest of it was worth doing.
Supported places
Free of charge, one for every four paying families
One supported place is funded for every four paying families, free of charge, for a family arriving on ordinary wages. Care workers, nurses, hospitality staff, families joining relatives. Guernsey's median earnings were £42,672 in the year to June 2024. Average rent is now £2,170 a month. Arriving here on a normal wage is hard, and the people who most need someone in their corner are the least able to buy one.
The families who can afford this pay for the families who cannot. The ratio is published so you can hold me to it, rather than being a vague commitment to do some good.
Why there is no cheap version
This is delivered by one person with one network, and there is a limit to how many families that person can properly know at once. There is no volume tier because there is no version of this that scales by adding more of me. The annual programme is priced slightly lower per family because the planning is easier, not because the families get less.
Why the cross-subsidy is on this page
An island works or fails on whether the people who arrive become part of it. That is as true of a nurse arriving from the Philippines as it is of a family buying an Open Market house, and the nurse is far more likely to leave for want of anyone to talk to.
So the paid places are priced to carry the supported ones. If you are paying the full rate, you are paying for more than your own family, and you should know that before you sign rather than read it in a newsletter afterwards.
A note on founding rates
These are the prices. The first few clients on each tier are offered a founding rate, because they are taking a chance on something unproven, and because their honest feedback is worth more than the difference. That is a discount with an end date, not a cheaper service.
Last reviewed: August 2026. Fees are reviewed annually.