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The keys to a Housing Trust property opened the doors to a full family life for the Green family

Steve and Mari Green are just one of many RAF families the RAF Benevolent Fund has helped. We bought the family a house and adapted it to make getting around easier for…

21 October 2014
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Carl gets ready to go for gold at the Invictus Games

Former RAF Regiment serviceman Carl Harding will be competing in the Invictus Games in the archery competition.

3 September 2014
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RAF team's fundraising run for the RAF Benevolent Fund

Cpl Stuart Goodhall and a team of RAF colleagues will be running the length of the River Thames from Kemble to the Thames Barrier to raise money for our work.

10 June 2014

Remembering the veterans of D-Day

Sergeant Lee Wrake joined the RAF at the age of 19. On 6 June 1944 he landed on Omaha Beach, and after saving a man who was hit in the stomach, he himself was hit in the…

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"What a sight it was to look down and see so many boats, like a giant armada!"

Flying Officer Bunny Mason, 90, was a lone rear gunner on the Stirling Mk 4, which was specially adapted for D-Day to tow gliders over the Normandy beaches

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"I heard the roar of an approaching fighter plane"

LAC Eric Reedman, 91, landed on Gold Beach on 16 June 1944 where his unit, Advanced HQ, 80 Wing made their way two miles inland to Tour en Besson.