The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund (RAFBF) is celebrating the 90th birthday of the RAF today. To celebrate the occasion the RAF’s main grant-making charity, which has been working alongside the RAF since its inception, is launching a campaign to remind Scottish heroes, who’ve served their nation that their charity is here to help them.
On Wednesday 13th February, representatives of the Guinea Pig Club presented Sir Rob Wright, Controller of the RAF Benevolent Fund, with a £50,000 donation. Among attendees were retiring Guinea Pig Club Chairman Jack Toper, new Club Chairman Sam Gallop and Vanora Marland, the daughter of the renowned plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe.
A Christmas concert organised by 1475 (Dulwich) Squadron ATC last December, raised more than £5,000 for the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.
On Friday 7th December the RAF Benevolent Fund joined forces with The Royal British Legion to launch a new Benefits and Money Advice service for serving and ex-Service personnel and their dependants. The two charities will fund posts at 18 Citizen's Advice Bureaux across the country, providing specialist money management and benefits advice.
Comedian Jeremy Beadle has joined air cadets across the UK in calling the public to support the Air Cadet Organization’s charity drive for the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.
The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund has benefited to the tune of over £1,600 after a rare book-signing visit to RAF High Wycombe by SAS author Andy McNab on Thursday, November 1, 2007.
A local optician in Eastbourne, Seaford and Margate helped the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund (RAFBF) raise £600 and gave two local photographers a reason to smile.
The RAF Benevolent Fund's Controller, Sir Rob Wright, and Director of Marketing & Communications, Dean Benton, were recently presented with a cheque for £22,000 from long-term Fund supporters the Marshall Group of Cambridge. The funds were raised in lieu of funeral flowers at the funeral and Thanksgiving service for Sir Arthur Marshall, and at a subsequent quiz night.
On Thursday 18th October, HRH The Duke of Kent will officially open the new Garden Room at Princess Marina House, the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund's care home situated on the West Sussex coast at Rustington. The event will also mark the official opening of Seacot House, a new respite facility for members of the serving RAF, located adjacent to Princess Marina House.
The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund has recently launched the first of a new kind of short-term respite facility for members of the serving RAF. Seacot House is a family home, adjacent to the sea, which has been completely refurbished and fitted out to the highest standard by the Fund. It has been set up to provide affordable respite breaks for serving personnel who find themselves facing difficulties over and above the usual stresses and strains of Service life.
On the evening of 20th September the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund hosted a gala banquet for some 200 guests at the Tower of London.
On Saturday 15th September, the first Walhampton Charity Bowl - an exciting new challenge for golfers in the Lymington area - will take place at Walhampton Golf Course. The day is also Battle of Britain Day and funds raised by the event will go to The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, the RAF’s principal grant-making charity providing financial assistance to any member of the RAF family in need. To mark the occasion, the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight have arranged for a fly-past of a Spitfire fighter to take place at the close of the competition.
The RAF Benevolent Fund provides crucial support for serving and retired members of the RAF and their dependants, but its work wouldn’t be possible without the generous efforts of its committed supporters. Every day, up and down the country, people with a strongly felt connection to the RAF are spending hours of their free time getting involved. Recently, many have chosen to strap on their running shoes and go that extra mile for the RAF family.
On Wednesday 30th May, at Dulwich College, 1475 Squadron Air Training Corps will be presented with the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund’s Poignard, the Fund’s most prestigious award, and the Air Training Corps Certificate of Merit.
Today, partners of the St Catherine’s Dock branch of Waitrose handed over a cheque for £665 to the RAF Benevolent Fund. This was raised during a ‘Monopoly Board Pub Crawl’ and in-store Easter raffle. Half of the donation was raised by the organised events and the sum was match-funded by Waitrose.
56 Squadron trains 'Top Guns' at Leuchars in support of RAF Benevolent Fund.
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