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Gerard smiling with family

Fund awards £61,650 grant to SSAFA to support mental wellbeing services

The RAF Benevolent Fund has awarded a three-year grant totalling £61,650 to SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity.

Eddie Brophy RAF

"Help is there waiting for people in need, like you and me"

For 33 years Ed Brophy paid monthly into the Service Day Pay Giving scheme while serving in the RAF as an Aircraft Engineer, however he never expected that he’d have to…

16 November 2023
Ian Miller

A look back at the extraordinary 1963 forced plane landing by former Pilot Officer Ian Christie-Miller

18 October 1963 is a date that is ingrained in Ian Christie-Miller’s memory forever. It is the day he survived a forced landing in a Gnat at RAF Sealand, while flying…

1 November 2023
Neil Green standing smiling

“The counselling from the Fund has picked me up during difficult times in my life”

After the loss of both parents, separating from his wife, and a decline in his personal health, RAF veteran Neil sought the support from the Fund’s welfare services to…

9 October 2023
Andy Layton

"Getting used to our new life is a struggle – without support from the Fund I don’t know where we’d be"

In 2021 life for Andy and his family, as they knew it, changed in an instant. After suffering a serious brain haemorrhage, RAF weapon’s technician Andy Layton was left…

5 October 2023
Airplay JCA Condover Hall

Reflecting on the 2023 Airbreaks

This month, One YMCA in conjunction with the RAF Benevolent Fund and partner YMCAs, held a three-day break in Shewsbury for children and young people of military…

9 August 2023