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The Guernsey Vision Magazine is an independent lifestyle magazine distributed directly to households in the bailiwick of Guernsey.

Our aim is to provide an entertaining medium that allows businesses to promote and market themselves cost effectively within the local community. This glossy, topical magazine is an exciting alternative to monochrome local papers, but is cheaper than most of them, therefore allowing the affordability to advertise on a monthly basis and the opportunity to build a significant local profile.

There is powerful evidence that truly local services are preferred by the majority of the Guernsey population and it is well known that businesses which advertise on a regular basis have a higher return rate than those who only do so on a one off basis.

The Guernsey Vision Magazine has been designed with staying power in mind. As well as advertising there are articles, business profiles, puzzles, competitions and community information. With the size, content, look and feel it will not be thrown away like a daily/weekly newspaper, but will be kept by the vast majority of households until the next issue arrives, thereby giving advertisers the advantage of easy access when their services are required.

As a customer of the Guernsey Vision Magazine you will notice a big difference from other advertising media – a totally personal service, high quality and great prices. We are passionate about the business and will actively work with you to build your local profile, we need you to see a return on your advertising so you keep your business with us. Hopefully you will achieve much more than that – many advertisers do.
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Magazine

Printed in Full Glossy Colour 

The magazine is approximately A5 in size with an average 56 pages, printed in full Glossy colour and contains a wide range of advertisements from local businesses as well as regular articles, editorials, puzzles and local information & events.

The 'Guernsey Vision'  is delivered FREE door to door, which means readers don't have to rely on picking the magazine up a local shop they have the convenience of having it delivered straight to their door every month.

We create the ads for free!

We post your add on the web for free 
(with links for the advertiser website)

Useful Contacts

Useful Phone Numbers

 

Callers from outside the islands should prefix numbers with the international code for the UK followed by 1481, or just 01481 if calling from the UK.

 

Action Aid (Guernsey Support Centre) – 716837
Age Concern Guernsey: 267660
Aids Helpline: 232626
Alanon Family Group: 239880
Alateen: 239880
Alcohol Advice Centre: 723255
Alcoholics Anonymous: 713480
Alderney Electricity: 822715; emergency 822155
Alderney Fire Station: 822672
Alderney Police Station: 822731
Alzheimer’s Society: 243815
Animal Shelter (24-hour): 257261
Bereavement Service (24-hour): 251056
Cancer Relief Day Hospice (PEH): 724634
Cardiac Rehabilitation Group: 725241
ChildLine: 0800 1111
Citizens’ Advice Bureau: 242266
Consumer Affairs/Trading Standards: 235741
Crimestoppers: 0800 555111
Drugs (Customs confidential line): Freephone 0800 318318
Drugs Concern: 729000
Environmental Health Office: 711161: emergency: 725241
Family planning service: 0771 103434
Fire Station: 724491
GASP: 727899
Guernsey Electricity: 246931;
emergency after hours: 245828
Guernsey Gas: 724811,
emergencies: 724811
Guernsey Hard of Hearing Association – enquiries: 234043
Guernsey Neuro Concern Society: 251311
Guernsey Osteoporosis Society: 257822
Guernsey Parents Support Group (ansaphone contact): 256301
Guernsey Samaritans: 715515
Guernsey Welfare Service: 231052
Health Information: 707470
Hedgehog Rescue: 07781 144250
Hope For Guernsey: 716837
Les Bourgs Hospice (24-hour): 251111
Life (pregnancy counselling): 239552
ME Support Group: 721213
Mignot Hospital (Alderney): 822822
Motor Neurone Disease Association: 251311
Multiple Sclerosis Society: 266287
NSPCC: 723224
Osteoporosis Helpline: 257822
Oxfam: 728525
Parkinson’s Disease Society: 251118
Pink Ladies (Breast cancer support helpline): 07781 415131
Police Station: 725111
Princess Elizabeth Hospital: 725241
Red Cross Society: 713088
Relate (marriage guidance): 730303
Ron Short Centre: 724333
St John Ambulance and Rescue Service: 725211
Sark Doctor: 832045
Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmens’ Families Association: 726650
Sunflower Trust : (bereavement support in schools): 232861
Victim Support Guernsey: 713000
Water Board: 724552; emergency after hours: 244668
WRVS: 247518

Controversy over Guernsey foundations

Guernsey is preparing a new law that will enable its financial industry to offer foundations as an alternative to trusts in a bid to attract clients from emerging markets.


The news has attracted criticism from anti-tax avoidance protestors concerned that foundations are secretive, will enable users to avoid legal accountability and will prevent investigation into money-laundering and tax evasion.
Foundations are used extensively in jurisdictions such as Panama and Liechtenstein and, more recently, Jersey.
They are legal entities created when a person provides a segregated pot of assets to be used for a specific purpose, such as succession planning for future generations.
The foundation holds the assets for the designated purpose and is administered by a council according to contractual rather than fiduciary principles.
John Christensen, Jersey's former economic adviser-turned-dissident, said: "It is worrying that Guernsey is expanding its services in this direction since potential users of Guernsey foundations, especially those originating from Latin America, China and the Middle East are very likely to be attracted to using foundations precisely because their secrecy will provide cover for criminal activity."
Guernsey argues that its preparation for a new foundations law is an attempt to attract custom from emerging markets, which are predominantly civil law jurisdictions and largely unfamiliar with the Anglo-Saxon trust structure based in common law.
In response to critics, a spokesman for the States of Guernsey said: "Any legislation passed in Guernsey will ensure that Guernsey foundations are neither secretive nor opaque, and that foundation councillors are subject to the same robust legal framework as company directors.

"The draft law Guernsey is consulting on makes it impossible to form a Guernsey foundation without the founder being both transparently identified and subject to due diligence guidelines that are in line with the highest international standards.
"It is simply wrong to say that a Guernsey foundation can be used as a cover for criminal activity."
The precise nature of the foundation structure, initial capital requirements, extent of founder powers, consideration of fiduciary duties, taxation and market demand for foundations will be considered until the end of the consultation period on May 23.
While the local method of taxation of a Guernsey foundation has yet to be finalised, It is expected that it will be tax neutral in Guernsey.

Peter Niven, chief executive of Guernsey Finance, the promotional agency for the island’s finance industry, said: "I’m hopeful that by early next year Guernsey practitioners will be able to offer a foundation which enables clients to preserve and enhance their wealth and assets through a highly regarded structure in a reputable jurisdiction.”