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Every year our members send their RAF stories and anecdotes to Air Mail magazine for publication in the letters page. With 2023 now underway, we bring you a selection of amusing stories submitted over the past year. Panamaniacs I was ...
A penpal service to help people stay connected to the RAF has been launched by the Association. An extension of the existing RAF Association Connections for Life service, it will support people who may not be comfortable with telephone friendship. Sam ...
Finding it Tough? is our free training course aimed at helping members of the military community to identify and deal with the symptoms of poor mental wellbeing which has now been opened to thousands more people. With around one in six ...
You can remember the RAF community with a gift your in Will. It’s the greatest gift you can give. When you leave a gift in your Will, the RAF Association makes a promise – to always support every RAF veteran, serving ...
Two RAF Association caseworkers have been recognised for their unstinting support for the RAF community at the RAF Benevolent Fund’s annual awards. Honorary Welfare Officers Pip Iles of Basingstoke Branch and Ron Simpson of Norwich Branch were named as two of ...
A telephone friendship group run by the Royal Air Forces Association is helping to reconnect members of the RAF veteran community across the UK. The initiative, funded by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust’s Tackling Loneliness programme, is primarily aimed at ...
Fighting loneliness with friendship... Our Connections for Life initiative has continued to prove popular with both volunteers and beneficiaries alike. RAF Association Connections for Life manager Sam Squire said the charity had seen growing demand for the service over recent months. ...
Our Connections for Life service, a volunteer outreach friendship programme designed to ease loneliness among members of the RAF community, has smashed its target after 120,000 calls were made since its launch in April 2020. Volunteers with the Royal Air Forces Association’s Connections for Life service collectively made over 6,600 telephone ...
Members of the RAF community whose lives are being affected by dementia are being urged to support each other by joining the Navigating Dementia online discussion forum. The Royal Air Forces Association – the charity that supports the RAF community – ...
One van tyre punctured Two friends united Ten days completed Fourteen Air Force friends and colleagues remembered Thirty years passed Six hundred and eighty miles covered £28.5k raised so far (including Gift Aid) The Tornado Tribute Tour of England has finished in Washington, County Durham, ...
Tornado Tribute Tour of England stops to remember at National Memorial Arboretum On day five of their ten-day, 690 mile cycle from St Eval in Cornwall to Washington, Tyne and Wear, RAF veterans Mal Craghill and Martin Wintermeyer visited the National ...
The Tornado Tribute Tour of England is finally happening! RAF veterans Mal Craghill and Martin Wintermeyer will be cycling from St Eval in Cornwall to Washington, Tyne and Wear as part of a 690 mile challenge; the Tornado Tribute Tour of ...
