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Like father, like son – RAF service runs in the family!

For RAF pilots Mike and David Waring, Father's Day is an opportunity to reflect on their family's service to the Royal Air Force, as the third and fourth generations to…

21 June 2020

RAF children's letters surprise lonely veterans during lockdown

Children who attend Airplay, the Fund's youth support programme, have written to isolated elderly members of the RAF Family during the coronavirus lockdown.

RAF Coningsby personnel run 102km to celebrate 102 years of the RAF

On 30 May, four personnel from RAF Coningsby completed a fundraising challenge to raise money for the RAF Benevolent Fund, the RAF's leading welfare charity. The team…

RAF Benevolent Fund launches wellbeing support for RAF partners

RAF partners and spouses can now access online mindfulness platform, Headspace, in a recent initiative launched by the RAF Benevolent Fund. Previously available to…

12 June 2020

The Red Arrows join us for Volunteers' Week

Longstanding friends of the Fund, the Red Arrows, have been helping us keep in touch with lonely and isolated veterans. Whilst Cpl Dan Sargent joined our Telephone…

4 June 2020

How the Battle of Dunkirk unfolded

The Battle of Dunkirk took place between 26 May and 4 June 1940 in Dunkirk, a small town on the northern coast of France. The Allies had been losing the Battle of France…

29 May 2020