Royal Air Forces Association

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The Royal Air Forces Association branch & club in Hexham, Northumberland

The Royal Air Forces Association, also known as RAF Association or RAFA, is a British registered charity. It provides care and support to serving and retired members of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth, and to their dependents.

The organisation was formed in 1943, and has 504 branches in the UK, with a total membership of approximately 79,000 in the UK and abroad.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". It receives no funding from the UK Government and operates entirely on donations and subscription fees. Its "Wings Appeal" raises around £2 million annually.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

It provides five flying scholarships for members of the Air Training Corps and Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets,[1] each year.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". It also runs a website where serving or ex-serving Air Force personnel can search for comrades.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

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