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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.


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.


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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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