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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 ...
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 ...
“The closer you get to the magnificent veterans and their dependents, the more you realise how deserving they are of our support.” The words above are those of Anne Mellor, an amazing Volunteer Caseworker at the very heart of the RAF ...
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. ...
Celebrities, serving RAF personnel and Second World War veterans joined staff, volunteers and branch members from the RAF Association for Founders' Day on Friday as the charity made wellbeing calls to 5,000 veterans, widows and widowers as part of its national ...
RAF Association Christmas hampers packed with festive goodies are winging their way to more than 1,200 RAF personnel who will be on operational duty on Christmas Day. The Royal Air Forces Association – the charity that supports the RAF community – ...
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 – ...
