Fermanagh Community Transport

29/05/2026

Call us on 028 66329965 or call in our office in the Translink depot.

29/05/2026

Another busy week comes to an end at Fermanagh Community Transport! We hope you all have had a great week and we wish you all a lovely weekend.

We were really delighted this week to receive the lovely box of biscuits and the beautiful card below from 2 of our members. We've never had such posh biscuits 😋 Thank you for kindness and thoughfulness ❤️

13/05/2026

👶🏻 Meet our new baby! 👶🏻

Here’s our driver, Paul, pictured with the newest addition to our fleet.

She’s not yet sign-written (any day now! ) but we love her already. 🥰 Isn’t she lovely? 💕

12/05/2026

Fermanagh Community Transport welcomed the meeting with Minister Liz Kimmins MLAlast week. It was an opportunity for ourselves and our sister organisations across rural Northern Ireland along with the Community Transport Association to share the positive role and impact rural community transport has made for our rural service users over the last financial year. Fermanagh Community Transport alone delivered 31,000 trips in 25/26, compared to 27,500 in 24/25. This represents a 13% increase.

The continued commitment of the Minister and her team within Department for Infrastructure is incredibly important and welcome, and we shared our commitment as a sector to build on the important work of the last year and to work positively and collaboratively with the Minister and her officials.

During the meeting, I impressed upon Minister Kimmins that the £1 million uplift for the community transport sector across NI last year was very important for the sector. I asked that last year's funding not be seen as a one-off, and that the funding last year should represent the new baseline from which we need to build on. I further stressed the need for funding to be linked to demographic change, especially given our rapidly ageing population and with this, the increasing prevalence of mobility, disability and multimorbidity needs, which translate to greater demand for rural door to door accessible community transport.

It was also impressed upon the Minister that rural community transport needs to be seen on a par with conventional public transport, and recognised and valued as such. It must be viewed and engaged within wider public transport policy, not set apart from it or seen outside of it. We must be seen as a legitimate partner on the basis of the merit and value we deliver.

The Minister was very warm and receptive to the requests, and she gave her commitment to do all she can to build on last year. She expressed her hope that we would move to a 3-year funding settlement which would allow Fermanagh Community Transport and its sister organisations to look beyond the highly restrictive one year funding cycle, bringing greater certainty and confidence to our members, as well as to our staff and volunteer team.

"Rural community transport needs to be seen on a par with conventional public transport, and recognised and valued as such."

11/05/2026

💫 Volunteer Now event 💫

We had a very enjoyable and informative morning last Thursday at the Volunteer Now networking event hosted by Raquel and Suzanne in Fermanagh House, Broadmeadow.

It was great to link up with other local organisations including the FIND Centre, Erne District Chinese Family & Friends Association, Enniskillen Credit Union and the Aisling Centre to name but a few!

All of our organisations depend on their volunteers to augment their services and we exchanged ideas on recruiting and retaining these very special people who dedicate their time and energy to their local community groups.

Thank you to Volunteer Now for the kind invitation to attend and for the delicious lunch.🫖🍰

And a huge thanks to our Volunteer Social Car Driver Ken, for coming along and sharing his experience as a volunteer.

If you are considering volunteering we’d love to talk to you!
Please contact Jason on ☎️028 66324260

09/05/2026

Thank you to Brendan Cassidy Memory Lane Fermanagh for this lovely new poster for the Fermanagh Singing Group!

Come along today for a song and a cuppa. We’d love to see you there!

Allison

09/05/2026

🚍🛣️ Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has met with the Community Transport Association and a number of rural transport service providers.

The meeting was an important opportunity for the Minister to hear about the impact increased DFI funding for this vital service has had on the lives of so many over the past year.

Find out more: https://www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/news/kimmins-welcomes-increase-local-community-transport-trips

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07/05/2026

"This Is Our Health"

Fermanagh and Omagh has faced significant changes to local health services. Our access to care, especially in our rural communities, remains a real concern.

We would like to make our residents aware of the “This Is Our Health” public engagement programme led by the Department of Health.

Our voices and experiences of our district must be heard, particularly around access, distance to services, and the unique challenges of rural living.

We encourage residents to tell the Department of Health and health care partners of their experiences in this survey:

Take part in whichever way works best for you - in person when the team visits locations across Northern Ireland or take part online.

05/05/2026

We’re back! 😎

The sun finally peeked through yesterday evening after a bit of a dull bank holiday weekend, but that doesn’t dampen our spirits and we are back on the road and in the office this morning, ready to take your bookings for Thursday and Friday this week!

☎️ Our phone lines are very busy this morning so please bear with us and we will get to you just as soon as we can 😎