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
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.
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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