If you served in the Royal Air Force and you or your family need
help or if you know of anyone who served in the RAF and either they
or their family need help, please contact us.
The main reason the RAFA exists is to provide welfare support. This
can vary widely. A visit and a friendly chat or a bit of advice is
all that some people want. But we can offer much more. There may be
a need for a one-off cash payment or a regular grant. Others may
need wheelchairs or other aids to mobility. Or perhaps transport to
hospital.
RAFA also has residential homes which offer respite care as
well. We can arrange for someone to stay at one of them and also
arrange transport there.
One thing you can be assured of is that any problems will be
treated in the strictest confidence and in a friendly manner.
We aim to deal with any request promptly.
RAF Cottesmore Internet
Cafe
A young RAFA
family
A RAFA home resident
These pictures remind us that RAF personnel
have recently served in Iraq and are serving in Afghanistan. A
number of them will need support when they return, as will the
families of those who have been killed or injured.
(Pictures are Crown Copyright & used
with permission from the RAF).
Parcels for the Regiment 2010
The branch has continued to send parcels to RAF Regiment Personnel
from Honington who are serving in Afghanistan. Ninety parcels
have been dispatched during 2010 and 2011 to members of II
Squadron, I Squadron and XV Squadron.
Shoe-boxes
are used to provide secure packaging for such items as
toothpaste, soap and shampoo, which they find useful, plus
sweets and biscuits. Herbert and Julie Websdell have a sample
of the parcels' contents which they displayed at the 2010
Armed Forces Day celebration in Diss and as a result collected
over £80 - enough for about eight parcels. Money for the
parcels has come from branch funds, gifts from members and
donations from the public.
Picture: Brian and Maureen Ager packing shoe boxes with items for
RAF Regt.
(Picture courtesy
of the Diss Express
www.dissexpress.co.uk)
Two Squadron RAF Regt from Honington deployed to Afghanistan in
October. We intend to send parcels to them early in 2012 - since we
are asked by the Ministry of Defence not to overburden the postal
system in the Christmas period, when families send out seasonal
gifts.
Anyone who would like to contribute or make up a parcel themselves
please contact secretary Brian Ager tel: 01379 640337 email:
ager.brian@googlemail.com or
you can make an online donation right now by clicking the "donate
now" button which will take you to our page on the Charity Choice
website. The site is 100% secure.

Nigel goes to Afghanistan
Sgt Nigel Millar is the latest man from Honington to receive a
parcel from our branch - along with a letter of thanks for all the
help he has given us as RAF liaison officer. Nigel has been posted
to Afghanistan, so we have a new liaison officer (RAFALO) Sgt
Kevin Sawyer, who we welcomed to our April meeting.
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