Members of the military community whose lives are being affected by dementia are being urged to support each other by joining a bespoke online discussion forum.
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Members of the military community whose lives are being affected by dementia are being urged to support each other by joining a bespoke online discussion forum.
Read morePlans to provide more retirement homes for RAF veterans and their spouses have been announced by a national military charity.
Read moreFamilies of serving RAF personnel and veterans who are finding life tough are being offered unique online training to help them identify, and deal with, the symptoms of poor mental wellbeing.
Read moreThe Royal Air Forces Association is inviting the public to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Britain by documenting their gratitude to all the men and women who, by working in a wide variety of roles, contributed to the battle’s outcome.
Read moreThe manager of a hotel in Weston-super-Mare for RAF veterans and their partners has made the final of a national care award.
Read moreA five-year-old from Cambridgeshire has raised hundreds of pounds for a military charity that helped him stay connected to his RAF father serving abroad.
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Read moreThe Royal Air Forces Association wants to keep everyone near RAF Cosford and RAF Wittering in the pink at RAFA Colour Chaos on 26 August and 9 September respectively.
These fun family events, open to the general public, are being held within the grounds of RAF Cosford and RAF Wittering and will entail approximately 5km of colourful fun. You can run, jog, dance, walk, whatever you feel like; the one certain thing is that you will get plastered in powder paint!
Read moreThe Royal Air Forces Association is helping serving personnel feel more connected to home by launching the ‘Wings Doodle Box’.
The boxes will be given to all children who receive a Storybook Wings story from now until the end of 2018 and are being launched to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the hugely popular scheme. The boxes contain a pillow case, wash bag, welcome home banner and cards, all of which can be coloured in using the fabric pens provided. The box itself can also be coloured in to make it stand out in a parent or carer’s bedroom.
Read moreThe RAF Association is opening its Flying Scholarship awards for the eighteenth year to grant six exceptional young people the chance to fly.
So far, 99 air cadets have benefited from the programme, with the 100th cadet due to be among the 2018 finalists. The best of the 2018 applicants will be rewarded with a course of 35 hours flight training in a light aircraft. Five ‘runners-up’ will receive 12 hours training each. The Flying Scholarship programme runs annually as a thank you from the RAF Association to members of the RAF Air Cadets for their continuous support of the charity’s fundraising.
All of the 2017 winners achieved solo flights by the end of their week of training.
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