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Royal Air Forces Association

Every year the RAF Association....

Honorary Welfare Officers make over 25,000 welfare visits to homes and hospitals.

offers over 3,000 respite care breaks at RAF Association respite care homes.

gives on-base support for service families.

advises on family and financial support.

invests in our sheltered housing facilities.

offers guidance and representation on War Disablement and War Widow pensions 

Playing Wings Lotto Helps the RAF Association to Help Others

Playing Wings Lotto Helps us to Help Others
Money raised from Wings Lotto helps us to offer residential care, short welfare breaks and supportive and sheltered housing facilities throughout the United Kingdom.

It also helps our volunteer Welfare Officers to provide much needed advice, care and support for serving and ex-serving RAF personnel and their families.

When The Coombes family needed help to pay for special helmets to allow their twins to recover from a difficult medical condition, the RAF Association provided financial support.  This treatment was unavailable on the NHS and would have cost the family £3800. The Newbury & District Branch of the RAF Association offered to pay for the cost of the helmets 

Andy Coombes added: “To hear that the RAF Association would help us was a welcome surprise and very much appreciated. The money came in extremely handy and allowed us a bit of breathing space.”

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