Enniskillen Sands Support Evening

What to Expect

The Enniskillen Sands Support Evening meets on the second Monday of every month at Fermanagh House, giving parents who have lost a baby during pregnancy or shortly after birth a local, regular place to talk to others who understand what that loss means. Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, runs groups like this across the UK and Ireland, staffed largely by volunteers who are often bereaved parents themselves. For a loss that can be hard to talk about even with close family and friends, a monthly evening with people who have been through something similar can matter a great deal.

The evening is set up as a support group rather than a formal talk. Parents sit together in a quiet room away from the busier parts of Fermanagh House and talk as much or as little as they want to about their baby and their experience of grief. Sessions are open to mothers, fathers and wider family members, and there is no expectation of having attended before or of coming every month. Sands nationally also runs a helpline, an online community and befriending schemes, and local groups such as this one are often where parents first connect with that wider network. Grief support of this kind is necessarily led by what the people in the room need on a given night, so the format stays loose by design.

Good to Know

• Date and time: second Monday of every month at 7:30pm; next meeting Monday 14 September 2026
• Venue: Fermanagh House, Broadmeadow Place, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, BT74 7HR
• Price: free
• Open to bereaved parents and close family; new attendees welcome at any session
• Recurs monthly; one page covers the whole series
• Run under the national Sands network, which also offers a helpline and online community
• Contact Fermanagh House on 028 6632 0210 or info@fermanaghhouse.org

Getting There

Fermanagh House is on Broadmeadow Place in Enniskillen town centre, with parking beside the building and easy access from the main shopping streets. Drivers reach Enniskillen on the A4 from Belfast, Dungannon and Sligo, and on the A32 from Omagh and Ballinamallard. The bus station on Wellington Road is a short walk away, though evening bus services across Fermanagh are limited, so most people attending will be driving.