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RAF partners invited to join free anxiety-management course

Later this month the RAF Benevolent Fund will be hosting a new four-part series of online wellbeing workshops for the partners of serving RAF personnel. The course will…

Wing Commander Paula Willmot

RAF Northolt officer sets her sights on the Dambusters Ride

An RAF officer based at RAF Northolt will soon be taking part in the Dambusters Ride. The event consists of two elements: a Virtual Ride on the weekend of 7-8 May, and a…

7 April 2022
Bridlington bungalow

Funds raised by The April Fools Club support welfare breaks for RAF families

The RAF Benevolent Fund recently purchased a property that members of the RAF Family can now book for welfare breaks. This wouldn't have been possible without the…

Amileigh and John discussed their love for gardening and how it helps with their mental health

"Gardening provides me with an escape from the real world"

Keen gardener Amileigh Salt, based at RAF Leeming, met garden designer of the RHS Chelsea RAF Benevolent Fund Garden, John Everiss, at the station’s Polytunnels. They…

4 April 2022
VR Group staff with UK Community Fundraising Manager Michelle Jeffcott

RAF Benevolent Fund named as VR Group's Charity of the Year

The RAF Benevolent Fund has been named as the VR Group's Charity of the Year for 2022. The VR Group is an Armed Forces-friendly employer providing Recruitment, Transport…

klet 'The Great Escape Stalag Luft III - From the original drawings made by Ley Kenyon 1943'.

Remembering the airmen of the Great Escape

On the night of March 24, 1944 and into the early hours of the next morning, 76 allied airmen from  German Prisoner of War camp, the Stalag Luft III, made their way…