2023 Recruitment
Shorefast and its social businesses, Fogo Island Inn and Fogo Island Workshops, are looking for dynamic individuals to join our growing teams. There's a place for you!
Current Openings
Outside
An orientation to Fogo Island
In-Between
An introduction to the key ideas behind our projects on Fogo Island.
Inside
A look at the singular spaces and amenities of Fogo Island Inn.
210 Main Road
Joe Batt's Arm
Newfoundland, Canada
A0G 2XO
Main / +1 709 658 3444
Toll-free / +1 855 268 9277
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Fogo Island Inn at Home Collection
Three reasons Fogo Island Inn
is on your clients’ bucket list
Reasons Fogo Island Inn
is on your clients’ bucket list
The Flat Earth Suite Experience
Food & Beverage
Activities
The Shed
Fogo Island Shed
Solo Travel
There are no strangers here.
When you leave, you'll be leaving home.
Ancestors
Our English and Irish ancestors were self-reliant cod fishing people who made their living on the tumultuous North Atlantic.
Seven Seasons
Each of our seven seasons provides a different opportunity for getting to know us, Fogo Island, and perhaps yourself.
A Gentle Footprint
Fogo Island Inn is the embodiment of an ecological ethic.
Administration
Events
We've created a variety of ways to immerse you in this place.
Still-wild World
Fogo Island is an unspoiled wilderness, at once knowable and unknowable.
Activities & Adventures
Fogo Island has seven singular seasons. Each provides a different perspective for getting to know Fogo Island, and perhaps yourself.
Art Gallery
Exhibitions at the Fogo Island Gallery feature new work by artists and curators who have participated in the Fogo Island Arts international residency program.
Architecture & Design
Architecture has the power and the duty to carry and convey the character of a particular time and place.
Economic Nutrition
What if everything you bought told you where exactly your money was going?
2023 Recruitment
All Activities
Fogo Island has seven singular seasons. Each provides a different perspective for getting to know Fogo Island, and perhaps yourself.
Place
Fogo Island is big and small–big enough to be interesting, yet small enough to know.
Dining
Where Nature and Culture Meet.
Bar & Lounge
Cocktails, music, and conversation.
Fogo Island Arts
Fogo Island Arts is a residency-based contemporary art venue for artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers, and thinkers from around the world.
Boat Building
The traditional boats of Fogo Island represent a way of knowing born specifically of this place.
Guest Services
Cod & The Fisheries
There is no stronger definition, no stronger attachment or symbolism, than Newfoundland and Labrador with Atlantic cod.
Cinema
The 37-seat Fogo Island Inn Cinema is a partnership with The National Film Board of Canada.
Fogo Island Workshops
The furniture and furnishings of Fogo Island Inn are available for purchase through Fogo Island Workshops
Berry
September 1 – October 31
Fogo Island Fish
We work directly with fishers on Fogo Island, off the coast of Newfoundland, to procure the very best wild-caught Atlantic seafood products for your table.
Sales and Marketing
Fogo Island Foodways
Culinary expressions of nature and culture.
Flowers & Berries
Summer brings a bounty of beautiful wildflowers followed by delicious berries in the autumn months.
Gathering Spaces
If you’re going to go off site, go off site.
Guided Outings
We've created a variety of ways to orient and immerse you in this place.
Image Gallery
A selection of photos to help orient you to this place.
Fogo Island Hospitality
Fogo Islanders are genetically predisposed to exceptional hospitality.
Guest Experience
Dining Room
If the Inn is a ship, the Dining Room is its noble prow.
Itineraries
Fogo Island has seven singular seasons. Each provides a different perspective for getting to know Fogo Island, and perhaps yourself.
Iceberg Alley
“Every year, half of Greenland breaks off and comes down on top of us.” —Peter Decker, Fisherman and Fogo Islander
Press
From The New York Times to CBS 60 Minutes to Vogue, Fogo Island Inn has been covered in hundreds of outlets worldwide. Here is a selection:
Your Hosts
Fogo Islanders have a way of putting you instantly at ease.
Kitchen
Late Fall
November 1 - November 30
Furniture & Textiles
Designers from away worked side-by-side with Fogo Island’s artisans and makers to create furnishings and furniture that weaved the new from the fabric of the old.
Shorefast
Many luxury properties have a charitable foundation. Our charitable foundation has a luxury Inn.
Library
A library of all things Newfoundland.
Celebrations
Birthday, Anniversary, Family Gathering, or Wedding.
Housekeeping
Social Enterprise
A welcoming Inn and an innovative social enterprise.
Private Stays
Whether you’re a few persons or 60, a Private Stay at Fogo Island Inn can turn a gathering into a joy.
Sauna & Hot Tubs
You don’t often see saunas in Newfoundland, but it suits this place.
Outports
Fogo Island and Change Islands are outport communities.
Geology
Fogo Island is one of the few places on Earth where you can see the full spectrum of the magma chamber exposed.
Ocean Ethic
Fogo Island’s history, culture, and economy are bound up with the sea.
Maintenance
Rooms & Suites
Pack Ice
March 1 – March 31
Executive Retreats
Coming here means your executive team will go far.
The Building
Fogo Island Inn has an international reputation for exceptional, embodied, place-specific hospitality and bold, thoughtful, humanistic contemporary design.
Spring
April 1 - May 31
Small Places
There is an inherent and irreplaceable value in small places, where cultures are guided by ingenuity, creativity, and a respect for the natural world.
Plan Your Stay
News
Fogo Island Inn News.
The Fogo Process
“Challenge for Change” was a program that allowed communities to use film as a catalyst for social change.
Summer
July 1 – August 31
Dispatch Blog
The official blog of Fogo Island Inn.
Trails & Paths
The only way to truly know Fogo Island is to explore it by foot.
Rooms & Rates
Our rooms are the loving expression of our philosophy.
Home
Find yourself at one of the four corners of the Earth.
Trap Berth
June 1 – June 30
Getting Here
Wildlife
Fogo Island plays host to countless species that swim our ocean waters and wander our barrens.
Video
Get to know us through moving pictures.
Your Stay
Our rooms are the loving expression of our philosophy.
Winter
December 1 - February 28
Things To Do
Fogo Island has seven singular seasons. Each provides a different perspective for getting to know Fogo Island, and perhaps yourself.
Our Inn
A look at the singular spaces and amenities of Fogo Island Inn.
Seven Seasons
Our Island
About Us
Fogo Island Inn is a community-centred social business
Contact Us
Fogo Island Inn
Shorefast and its social businesses, Fogo Island Inn and Fogo Island Workshops, are looking for dynamic individuals to join our growing teams. There's a place for you!