Area Information

Overseas Contact Details

C/o 117½ Loughborough Road, Leicester, LE4 4LH - Phone 01684 568 457 / fax 01684 568 457 Email Email Us

RAFA Overseas Area

Welcome to the Overseas Area of the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA). The Area Director is Mr Simon Martin.

The Overseas Area currently has about 6,000 members in 47 Branches located in 3 Areas - European, South African, Overseas Independent.

If you would like to find out more about a Branch in your Area, please contact the Area office directly. Contact details are above.

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European Area

The European Area comprises 24 Branches from the Norwegian Branch in the North to the Malta GC Branch in the South and from the Republic of Ireland Branch in the West to the two Cyprus Branches in the East.

Denotes Branch HQ with Club facilites operated by an independent club

European Branches in alphabetical order

Amsterdam, Aphrodite (Cyprus), Apollo (Cyprus), Athens, Belgian (Brussels) , Benalmadena (Spain) , Costa Blanca (Alicante) , French Riviera, Gibraltar, Guernsey , The Hague , Jersey, Luxembourg, Lyon, Malta GC , North Costa Blanca, Norwegian (Oslo), Paris, Republic of Ireland (Dublin), Rheindahlen (Germany) , St Germain & District, Sud-Ouest (Bordeaux), Swiss (Geneva), (European Area HQ Branch)

The European Area has its own Council which, with Branch Delegates, meets twice a year. At these Conferences, the Association's and the Area's business is conducted as well as providing social opportunities for old friendships to continue and for new friendships to be struck. The first Conference each year is held on the Friday before National Annual Conference. The second Conference is held in the Autumn and is hosted by one of the Area Branches.

Name	Position	Email
Air Marshal Sir Christopher Coville	European Area President & Life Vice-President	Click to email
Mr R Gauci (Malta GC Branch)	Chairman	Click to email
Mr R Hunt (North Costa Blanca Branch)	Vice Chairman	Click to email
Air Marshal C Harper	Service Vice President	Click to email
Doctor Bryan Pattison (Swiss Branch)	Life Vice-President	Click to email
Air Vice-Marshal N S Howlett	Life Vice-President	Click to email
Air Marshal Peter Walker	Life Vice-President	Click to email
Mr M Mason (Amsterdam Branch)	Vice-President	Click to email
Mrs B Dennett Stannard (Sud-Ouest Branch)	Vice-President	Click to email
Mr B Darke (Luxembourg Branch)	Central Council Representative	Click to email
Squadron Leader Dean Gibson	RAFA Liaison Officer	Click to email
Mr S V Martin	Secretary (Overseas Director)	Click to email

South African Area Contact Details

The South African Area of the Association has its own Headquarters which looks after the Area's 7 Branches. Contact details are as follows; PO Box 184, Plumstead, 7801 Cape, Republic of South Africa Telephone : ++27-21-6719253 or ++27-21-7979404 Fax : ++27-21-6716398 or ++27-21-7979404

South African Area

The South African Area of the Association has its own Headquarters which looks after the Area's 7 Branches

Name	Position	Email
Mr R Woods	Area Chairman	Click to email
Mrs L Hele	Area Director - South Africa	Click to email

The South African Branches are as follows :

Cape Town, East London , First South Africa (Pretoria) , Johannesburg, Natal (First Natal), Natal Midlands, Port Elizabeth

Overseas Independent Area

The Overseas Independent Area covers the rest of the world and is looked after by the Overseas Department via Leicester.

The Overseas Independent Area comprises 16 Branches as follows:

Antigua, Gold Coast (Australia), Harare (Zimbabwe) , Hong Kong, Jamaica , Matabeleland (Zimbabwe) , Melbourne , Mornington Peninsula (Australia) , Newcastle & District (Australia) , (Overseas HQ Branch), Queensland , South Australia , Sydney Metropolitan , Tokyo, Trinidad & Tobago, Western Australia

Overseas Bulletin

The Area Director provides the Overseas Branches and Area Councillors and Honorary Liaison Officers with a Newsletter Bulletin every 2 months (the first of which each year goes out on 1 February).

Overseas, Honorary Liaison Officers

To assist with welfare cases in countries where the Association does not have a Branch, there is a network of Honorary Liaison Officers (HLO's) - volunteers who are happy to provide advice and assistance where possible, to ex-RAF or serving RAF personnel and their families.

There are 9 HLO's in the following countries:

Argentina (1 HLO)
Portugal (1 HLO)
Malaysia (1 HLO)
New Zealand (1 HLO)
Seychelles (1 HLO)
USA (4 HLO's)

Red Arrows to run the 2010 Virgin London Marathon for the RAF Association's Wings Appeal

The Red Arrows will swap their famous red flying suits for red running kits when they take part in the 2010 Virgin London Marathon to raise funds for the vital work of the RAF Association's Wings Appeal.
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