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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…

International Women's Day - Q&A with Chris Elliot

Today is International Women’s Day and to mark the occasion, Air Vice-Marshal Chris Elliot, Controller of the RAF Benevolent Fund, provides insights into her career…

8 March 2022
Stuart Robinson

How we helped Stuart Robinson

When Corporal Stuart Robinson was seriously injured in an IED explosion in Afghanistan in 2013, he knew the road to recovery would be a tough one. Despite such a…

8 July 2024
Luke Fundraiser

‘Bring Luke Home’ gym challenge remembers RAF Regiment soldier killed in Afghanistan

On Friday 25 February, around 70 people will begin a 24-hour fitness challenge in memory of Senior Aircraftman Luke Southgate.