The RAF’s leading welfare charity, providing practical, financial and personal lifetime support to all members of the RAF family whether serving or veterans and their families.
Provides practical, financial and – in some cases – emotional support to all members of the RAF family, regardless of rank, from childhood through to old age.
Help with top-up care fees
Help with disability
Adaptations
Equipment
Mobility
Death and Disablement in Service
Housing assistance
Education costs
Financial Need
Property Repairs
Welfare breaks
Support for the serving RAF
“Airplay” Youth Support Project
Childcare centres
Benefits and Money Advice Service
free relationship counselling
Represents the views and concerns of RAF personnel and their families to those who can make a difference, for example senior RAF and MoD staff and Ministers. The RAF FF is outside the chain of command and can promise an independent and confidential service.
Parented by the RAF Association under contract
Anyone whose life is directly affected by the fact that a family member is serving in the RAF is entitled to be represented by the RAF FF. Respective partner, spouse, children, parents and close relatives by blood/marriage/civil partnership are all included.
Giving emotional support and practical help to Service widows.
Advice on pensions and grants.
Offering comfort, support and a special understanding through meetings and online forum.
REACT Disaster Response is a humanitarian rapid-response charity operating in the UK and overseas. We train and deploy volunteer Response Teams to emergencies and disasters to help save lives and alleviate suffering, particularly for hard-to-reach and vulnerable communities in the immediate aftermath of crises.
REACT is closely aligned to the Armed Forces community. Our volunteers are predominantly military veterans, alongside serving personnel, blue light professionals and other skilled individuals. We repurpose military experience in leadership, planning, logistics and problem-solving to provide practical surge capability in complex, fast-moving emergencies. Through deployments and training, we also offer veterans and service leavers a continued sense of purpose, structured teamwork and an opportunity to apply their skills in service of communities during times of greatest need.
REACT’s support and expertise is highly relevant to the Armed Forces community and to multi-agency emergency response. We mobilise trained volunteers (predominantly military veterans, alongside blue light professionals and other skilled individuals) to bring disciplined planning, leadership, logistics and “can-do” problem-solving into fast-moving, high-pressure environments. We work in support of statutory responders and humanitarian partners, helping to close critical gaps quickly and effectively.
Support and expertise include:
• Shared situational awareness & rapid needs assessment – gathering and analysing information quickly to build a clear on-the-ground picture and inform priorities.
• Incident management & coordination support – practical support to planning, liaison and multi-agency coordination, strengthening response capacity where teams are stretched.
• Last-mile logistics – rapid, flexible logistics to move people, equipment and relief items into hard-to-reach locations when time and access are constrained.
• Surge and specialist operational capability – short-notice deployments to augment local responders and partners, including specialist capabilities such as flood response.
• Volunteer management support – helping partners organise, task and safely coordinate volunteers during emergencies, including spontaneous volunteer groups.
• Training, capacity and resilience-building – training and preparedness support that strengthens community and organisational resilience, while enabling veterans to maintain skills, purpose and team identity through meaningful service.
1) To advance a culture of literacy in the home by encouraging families to read together for pleasure and talk about a book by providing advice and assistance and materials to support shared reading activities; and
2) To promote and protect good health and wellbeing by using reading as a means of mitigating stress and
increasing communication and good family relationships, particularly following separation due to training, deployment, postings and mobility
RF is a simple, fun, free family shared reading initiative for Service families, Reservists, Cadets, Veterans and injured service personnel – spouses and partners, pre-school children through to young adults, extended family and grandparents.
We provide free books and special scrapbooks and encourage Service families to form an informal book group with their family and friends; choose, read, talk about a book, and fill in the free scrapbook.
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Job placement (raja)
Benevolence
Esprit de Corps events
Afghanistan support
In light of recent events in Afghanistan, please find information and support resources here