The RAF Association (RAFA) is a membership organisation of
serving and former members of the Royal Air Force, their families
and dependants and all those supporting the aims of the
Association.
The Association provides help and advice, assistance,
comradeship and, where required, welfare and care for the whole RAF
family.
It is the largest single-service membership organisation in the
United Kingdom and has roughly 80,000 members and 500 Branches in
the UK, Europe and further afield.
Membership is open to everyone who is interested in supporting
our aims as well as to current and former members of the RAF or
Commonwealth air forces.
Click
here for information about joining.
The Diss and District branch is based in Diss in
the Waveney valley and serves an area that includes large parts of
South Norfolk and North Suffolk.
Sponsored swim for Wings Appeal
The branch chairman and treasurer, husband and wife Herbert and
Julie Websdell are planning a sponsored swim on July 9
2009 in aid of Wings Appeal.
Click here for further
details
Celebrate the centenary of the first
cross-Channel flight
A Hurricane and a Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Flight
promise to provide one of the highlights of the branch's
event at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
at Flixton near Bungay on Sunday August 16th from
11am to 5pm. They are among a number of aircraft, including an Army
Air Corps Apache helicopter and the air-sea rescue helicopter,
which are due to fly over the site.
Air Training Corps cadets, including the Lowestoft ATC band, will
take part and there will also be musicians from RAF
Honington. RAF Regiment personnel from the base
will also stage one of the many static displays. These will
include historic vehicles.
We are trying to get some representative of France - which made the
historic flight across the Channel - but while you are looking
round the museum you might discover why the British allowed
the French to claim this historic achievement.
The museum's large collection of aircraft and other exhibits
is well worth seeing and refreshments will be available from the
NAAFI..
The best news is that admission and car parking is free. Bring the
family for an interesting day out.
A salute to 90 years of the
RAF
Last year the branch's Salute to 90 years of the
RAF was a great success. Well over 3,500 people poured
through the gates of the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum at
Flixton to enjoy the festivities with RAFA raising more than £1,300
and the museum's NAAFI was kept busy all day. Among the special
guests, who were greeted by branch president Wing Commander Gerry
Honey, was a Battle of Britain pilot - Wing Commander Tom Neal DFC.
Click
here for more details.
Meetings: The branch usually meets on the first
Monday of the month at the Grasmere Club, Denmark St, Diss, IP22
4LE. But please check before coming to see us. Visitors are always
welcome.
RAFA also arranges social events, outings to places of interest,
participates in quizzes and generally takes the theme of
"comradeship" seriously.
However, the main purpose of RAFA is to assist serving and
former members of the RAF and their families who need help. So we
work to raise money throughout the year and especially during
Wings
Appeal in September.
Our Welfare
Officer is there for anyone needing help. This may vary from a
friendly chat to some item that's needed, such as a wheelchair, or
the provision of transport. RAFA takes pride in responding quickly
to requests for help.
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