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PubAid 'Community Pub Hero Award' 2024 & 2025
The Community Pub Hero winners are announced at a prestigious awards ceremony at the House of Commons. From over 1,000 entries, 24 were shortlisted in 2024 and 30 in 2025 as finalists and a select few took home trophies presented by the Minister of Hospitality. Charlie's Bar, Enniskillen was presented with the award for, 'Community Support Hero' Ireland 2024 and again in 2025. The awards were judged by Rita King, Honorary Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group; George Kyle from sponsor, Matthew Clark; Paula Smith, Head of Marketing at the Licensed Trade Charity; Darryl Hinksman Head of Business Development and MD for Westons Australia; Andrew Buchanan, Operations Director for pubs and brewing at Daniel Thwaites who also sits on the BBPA Future Pub group and Molly Davis, Head of Communications for BII (British Institute of Innkeeping).

'Contribution to the Community' & 'Landmark Achievement Award'
The contribution to the community award, sponsored by Mannok, was introduced to recognise businesses who go out of their way to help in the community demonstrating a consistent contribution to their local community. The Landmark Achievement Award, sponsored by Pilgrim’s Food Masters honours a local business who is celebrating a landmark year in business this year. Charlie's celebrates 80 years in business in 2024. This award took into consideration employment, vision, dedication and investment along side plans for the future.

Impartial Reporter 'Business Award' 2024
The Impartial Reporter Community Champion Awards in association with Encirc honoured what they described as, 'the unsung heroes within our community'. Hosted at the prestigious Lough Erne Resort by Sky News Senior Ireland Correspondent David Blevins, this event celebrated the extraordinary efforts of individuals and businesses embodying the ethos of selflessness and community service. The Business Award, sponsored by Encirc, was presented to Charlie's Bar, Enniskillen. Editor of The Impartial Reporter Rodney Edwards said: “These awards are about celebrating the essence of community spirit and the remarkable individuals who make our communities thrive'.

NISMA 'Most Impactful Social Media Campaign' & 'Best Low Budget Campaign (Under 5k)' 2024
The theme of this year’s awards, which are organised by one of Northern Ireland’s leading award-winning digital marketers and industry mentors Niamh Taylor of Digital 24, is ‘This Is Me’ celebrated authenticity and resilience in the face of adversity. The winners were announced on Saturday 5th October in the Europa Hotel. The independent panel of global expert judges, who each work with some of the world’s biggest brands, included Katie Philo, Head of Social at GQ Magazine in New York; Nimah Kuzbari White, Head of Brand at leading Irish lifestyle brand 4TH ARQ; Lachlan Stewart, Global Social Media at Canva and Sophie Miller, Founder of the global marketing company, Pretty Little Marketer and Beth Thomas, Content and Campaigns at leading social media consultancy Frankly. The awards celebrated how individuals, organisations and businesses are using social media positively and excelling in digital marketing to achieve their aims and objectives.

TripAdvisor 2022, 2023 & 2024 Travelers' Choice Award
Charlies Bar, Enniskillen has been awarded a Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice Award for three years running. This award is based on genuine feedback from anyone in the community who has visited and left an authentic, first-hand review on Tripadvisor over the last 12 months. “Congratulations to Charlie's Bar, Enniskillen on its recognition in Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards for 2024,” said John Boris, Chief Growth Officer at Tripadvisor. “Travelers’ Choice honours businesses that consistently demonstrate a commitment to hospitality excellence. This means you have made such a memorable impact on your visitors that many of them took the time to go online and leave a great review about their experience. We hope this recognition continues to drive business to you in 2024 and beyond.”

LCN Community Pub of the Year Award 2023
Charlies Bar, Enniskillen was presented with the LCN 2023 'Community Pub of the Year' Gong in June 2023. The award, which is sponsored by Drinks Inc. was designed to recognise bars that have engaged with and supported the local community, providing a wide range of services and events to meet the needs of their customers. To be shortlisted alongside six other NI businesses was a massive achievement but to take home the coveted title to Charlie’s was a real honour. We’ve always believed that if you’re in a position where you can help people, why wouldn’t you? All our staff work hard to provide a ‘home-from-home’ atmosphere for our customers and we are only too happy to support the admirable work that takes place across the Enniskillen community.

Ulster Pub of the Year
In August 2022, Charlie’s Bar was proud to be named Fermanagh Pub of the Year, and just one month later, we were thrilled to be crowned ‘Ulster Pub of the Year’ at the prestigious Irish Restaurant Awards. Fast forward to 2024, and we were once again honoured at the Irish Restaurant Awards – this time taking home not one, but two county-level awards: Pub of the Year – Fermanagh Innovator of the Year – Fermanagh These awards celebrate the very best of hospitality across the island of Ireland, and we’re proud to be recognised for both our commitment to tradition and our willingness to try something new.

'Best Guinness in Enniskillen' - Guinness Guru
Daragh Curran, best known as Guinness Guru, rated his pint in Charlie’s Bar, Enniskillen as the best in the town. In a later video, The Guinness Guru described his visit to Charlie’s as, ‘The Maddest Craic’ review.

Fermanagh Pub & Bar Of The Year - National Pub & Bar Awards
We’re proud to share that Charlie’s Bar has been shortlisted as the Fermanagh Pub & Bar of the Year at the prestigious National Pub & Bar Awards 2025! This means we’ve secured our place at the Grand Final, taking place on Tuesday 24th June at Big Penny Social in London, where the Highly Commended venues will be revealed, along with the Regional Winners, and the overall National Pub & Bar of the Year. To top it off, this year’s ceremony will unveil a brand-new honour – the Top 10 Pubs & Bars in the UK, as voted for by hundreds of industry professionals from across the country. We’re beyond thrilled to be recognised on a national level and to be representing Fermanagh among the best of the best in the UK pub scene.