Empty Arms

10/23/2026

We will always remember...

For our next Beading, Bannock & Belonging, we’ll gather together to create a poppy beaded pin — a tiny flower carrying a pretty big message of remembrance, love, and connection.

Join us on November 4th for an evening of beading, bannock, conversation, and community. Whether you come to honour someone you love, spend time with people who understand, or simply keep your hands busy while sharing space with others, you belong here.

🧡 Beading, Bannock & Belonging
📅 October 14
🌸 Poppy Beaded Pin
🤍 All supplies provided
🌿 No beading experience necessary

Come as you are. Make something meaningful. Stay for the belonging.

Register at emptyarms.ca.

10/22/2026

💰 $85,000. Just imagine what that could mean for your family.

A few bills paid off. A little breathing room in the budget. Maybe even the chance to get ahead for once.

Now imagine that same ticket helping another family through one of the hardest moments of their lives. 💗

That's the beauty of the Empty Arms Fall 50/50. Your chance to win big is also an opportunity to make a meaningful difference for Saskatchewan families experiencing pregnancy and infant loss.

✨ WIN UP TO $85,000! ✨

🎟️ 1 ticket for $10
🎟️ 5 tickets for $20
🎟️ 25 tickets for $50
🎟️ 100 tickets for $100

Whether you're dreaming of paying down your mortgage, clearing a credit card, or simply having a little extra room to breathe, we all know what a difference a financial boost could make.

And while there's only one winning ticket, every ticket purchased helps us continue showing up for families who need us.

💙 A chance to lighten your load. A way to help carry theirs.

⏰ Ticket sales close November 2 at 9:15 AM, with the draw at 10:00 AM!

🎟️ Get your tickets today https://emptyarms.rafflenexus.com/

Must be 18+ and located in Saskatchewan to purchase. Maximum prize subject to ticket sales. SLGA licence -0090.

10/21/2026

Expecting After Loss is meeting on November 3 🤍

In Person: 262 Avenue B S Unit #206
Virtually: Zoom link provided upon registration

This peer support group is designed for families and individuals who are pregnant or trying to conceive after experiencing pregnancy, infant, or child loss.

This space acknowledges the complexity of expecting after loss — where hope, fear, anxiety, and anticipation can all exist at once — and offers a supportive environment to connect with others who understand this unique journey.

Please visit our website to sign up @ emptyarms.ca.

10/20/2026

Tender Ties is meeting on October 28 🤍

In Person: 262 Avenue B S Unit #206
Virtually: Zoom link provided upon registration

This peer support group offers gentle, compassionate support for parents who have experienced early pregnancy loss.

These gatherings create a safe space to share, connect, and be with others who understand the quiet and often unseen weight of early loss. However you are feeling, you are welcome here.

Please visit our website to sign up @ emptyarms.ca

10/20/2026

Holding It All is meeting on Tuesday October 27 🤍

In Person: 262 Avenue B S Unit #206
Virtually: Zoom link provided upon registration

This peer support group is designed for parents who are navigating pregnancy, infant, or child loss while raising their children.

This space acknowledges the reality of parenting after loss — where grief and love exist side by side — and offers a supportive environment to connect with others who understand the complexity of holding both.

Please visit our website to sign up @ emptyarms.ca

10/19/2026

Paint Afternoon 🤍

*FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT*

Join us for a gentle, creative afternoon on Saturday, October 24th from 1:30–3:30 PM at the Empty Arms office in Saskatoon

Together with the talented Sierra Banwarth, we’ll spend time creating, connecting, and simply being — no pressure, just space to explore and express

No prior experience is needed, and all materials are provided. Just come as you are 🤍

This is a space for community, creativity, and care — we would love to have you with us.

Register on our website @ emptyarms.ca

10/11/2026

At 7:00 PM, we light a candle. 🕯️🤍

On October 15, families around the world will come together for the Wave of Light — a beautiful act of remembrance for babies who have died during pregnancy, at birth, or in infancy.

At 7:00 PM in each time zone, candles are lit and left burning for at least one hour. As one time zone’s candles begin to dim, another’s are being lit, creating a continuous wave of light travelling around the world.

For one hour, windowsills, kitchen tables, living rooms and gathering spaces will glow in remembrance.

For the babies whose lives were measured in months, weeks, days, hours or minutes.
For the babies who never took a breath.
For the babies whose names are spoken every day, and those held quietly in someone’s heart.
For every family carrying a love that continues long after loss.

🕯️ October 15
🤍 7:00 PM
🌎 Light a candle wherever you are
✨ Leave it burning for at least one hour

We invite you to join the Wave of Light from your own home. Light a candle, place it somewhere you can see it, and know that across Saskatchewan and around the world, thousands of other lights are glowing alongside yours.

If it feels right, share a photo of your candle and tag Empty Arms so we can help fill our community with light.

One candle may feel small.

Together, they make a wave. 🕯️🤍

10/10/2026

Forget the fun-size candy. We’re after the FULL-SIZE jackpot. 🎃🍬💰

Our Fall 50/50 is growing, and if you’ve been waiting for a sign to grab your tickets… THIS IS IT.

Skip one trip down the Halloween candy aisle and put those dollars somewhere they could come back a whole lot sweeter. 👀

🍭 Buy tickets.
🍫 Grow the jackpot.
🍬 Support Empty Arms.
💰 And maybe walk away with HALF THE POT.

Every ticket sold helps us continue providing free support to Saskatchewan families experiencing pregnancy, infant and child loss — and the bigger we make this jackpot, the bigger the impact.

So yes, we’re asking.
Actually, we’re REALLY asking. 😂

BUY. THE. TICKETS. 🎟️🎃

Buy some for yourself. Send the link to your mom. Your best friend. Your coworker. The group chat. That person who always buys the giant box of full-size chocolate bars for trick-or-treaters.

No tricks. Just a chance at a very, very good treat. 💰🍬

🎟️ Get your Fall 50/50 tickets at

emptyarms.rafflenexus.com

Now go. Before you forget. 👻

#5050

Checkout for the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month 50/50. Order tickets for the 50/50.

10/10/2026

They are part of the family story, even if they aren’t here to grow alongside us. 🤍

On October 17, our Sibling Grief Group will focus on Remembering My Sibling — creating space for children to celebrate, remember, and feel connected to the sibling they have lost.

Together, we’ll explore memories, stories, photographs, special objects, family traditions, and all the little things that help tell us who someone was and what they mean to us.

And for subsequent siblings who may not have memories of their own, there is space for them, too. They can learn the stories, hear about the things their family remembers, imagine the life their sibling may have lived, and discover meaningful ways to celebrate the sibling who is still very much a part of their family.

This is a gentle, supportive space where kids can talk openly about grief, ask questions, participate in activities, connect with other children who understand, or simply listen and be part of the group. There is no expectation to share — every child gets to participate in the way that feels most comfortable for them.

🤍 October 17
🌿 Topic: Remembering My Sibling
📍 Empty Arms Office
🎈 A supportive grief group created especially for siblings
🎨 Conversation, connection and meaningful activities
✨ Free to attend

Whether your child has memories of their sibling or has grown up knowing them through stories, photographs and the love their family continues to carry, they belong here.

Because remembering isn’t about staying stuck in grief. It’s one of the ways we continue to love. 🤍

Registration is required. Visit emptyarmspls.com to save your child’s spot.

10/09/2026

WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED. 🤯🤍

We knew this community was incredible.

But $59,000 incredible?!

You absolutely blew us away.

The 2026 No Foot Too Small Walk started with a goal: bring our community together, remember the babies and children who should be here, and raise money so families facing unimaginable loss never have to face it alone.

And then you showed up.

🤍 $59,000 RAISED
🤍 40 TEAMS
🤍 582 DONATIONS
🤍 428 PARTICIPANTS

And here’s the number we really need you to see:

54 FAMILIES.

The money raised represents the cost of fully supporting approximately 54 families in hospital or at a funeral home through Empty Arms.

54 families who can have someone answer the phone.

54 families who can have a companion walk into the room when their entire world has changed.

54 families who can receive memory-making, remembrance photography, resources, follow-up support and connection without ever being handed a bill.

54 families who can hear, “We’re here. You don’t have to do this alone.”

THAT is what you did.

To every participant, team captain, donor, volunteer, family who trusted us with someone they love, and every person who shared, donated, fundraised or walked beside us — thank you.

And to our incredible sponsors: thank you for believing in this work and investing in these families. Events like this simply do not happen without you.

We walked for babies.
We walked for children.
We walked for families.
We walked for the people who would give absolutely anything to have no reason to be there.

And somehow, in the middle of all that grief and love, this community raised FIFTY-NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS.

There’s really only one way to say it:

Holy s**t, Saskatchewan. 🤍

You showed up.

54 families will feel the impact of what happened at this walk.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.