Skip to main content
Home

RAF Family

Dan Pelling smiling

Disability Pride Month: Celebrating our Ambassadors

To celebrate Disability Pride Month this July, we highlight the unique challenges of three RAF Benevolent Fund Ambassadors who have used sport to regain independence…

12 July 2023
Wilfred Ibbotson in uniform

Dambusters 80th anniversary: Remembering my grandad 80 years on

This year marks 80 years since the daring Dambusters Raid in 1943. To mark the occasion, we spoke to Deb Wolstenholme about what the anniversary means to her family.

Air Vice-Marshal Chris Elliot

Fund holds Bomber Command Memorial Service to remember WW2 veterans

On Sunday 25 June, the annual Bomber Command Memorial Anniversary Service was held at the Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park, London.

Josh Rowles at tent selling medals

Commemorative coins and medals mark the Dambusters 80th anniversary in support of the RAF Benevolent Fund

Acting Pilot Officer, Josh Rowles, has spent the past few months producing commemorative medals and patches in honour of the 80th anniversary of the Dambusters Raid,…

6 July 2023
Mental health

Op PITTING documentary – where to find support

In August 2021, one of the largest British military undertakings took place during the evacuation of Kabul Airport after the Taliban seized power across Afghanistan.

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