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Welcome to the Diss and District Royal Air Forces Association website

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Honorary Secretary
Brian Ager
34 Factory Lane
Roydon
Diss
IP22 4EG
01379 640337
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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.

The branch meets on the second Monday of each month at Diss Town Football Club, Brewers Green Lane, starting at 7.30pm. 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.


Sponsored swim for Wings Appeal

The branch chairman and treasurer, husband and wife Herbert and Julie Websdell  completed a sponsored swim on July 9 2009 in aid of Wings Appeal, raising £475 in the process. Click here for further details



Celebrating the Centenary of the 1st Cross-Channel Flight
This is a photograph of the first Louis Bleriot replica to cross the English Channel in the skies over Dover on the centenary of the aviator’s historic flight on the 25th July 1909. Simon Ovenden Copyright
The day was a great success. An estimated 5,000 people visited the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, on Sunday 16th August 2009 for Diss and District Royal Air Forces Association’s major annual event. Around £1,700 was raised to help current and ex-RAF personnel and their families.

Click here to read all about it and see the pictures.




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A salute to 90 years of the RAF
 
 
In 2008 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.







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