Advice and Support
We’re here to give friendship, help and support
Welfare is at the absolute heart of the Royal Air Forces Association. Our reason for existing is as a member-led welfare charity. By association, everyone in the organisation from fundraiser to member to welfare officer or case Worker is a part of the welfare chain.
The real help that we give to real people – is the core of the welfare work that the RAF Association so successfully delivers is making a real difference to the lives of those in the RAF family who find themselves in times of need.
Find out about the range of welfare advice and support that the RAF Association gives by using the links below:
War Pensions service and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
Our network of branches and clubs
Get Help from the RAF Association
Signposting to support Organisations
Often our assistance can come from knowing which organisations are in the best position to provide specialist help exactly as it is needed, and using our links with these organisations to arrange any further action.
Here are the names and links of some of the organisations we are in touch with that can offer support to members of the RAF Family, and who can, of course, be contacted directly.
- Alzheimer’s Society
- Benefit Advice
- Big White Wall
- Citizens Advice Bureau
- Combat Stress
- Counselling Directory
- Glasgow’s Helping Heroes
- Home-Start
- Local Authority Services
- Local NHS Services
- Queen Victoria School, Dunblane, Scotland
- RAF Community Support
- RAF FF
- RAF Pensions
- RAF Widows Association
- RAFBF
- Samaritans
- Scotty’s Little Soldiers
- Service Children Support Network
- Service Personnel and Veterans Agency
- SPVA
- SSAFA
- Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide
- The Big White Wall
- The Compassionate Friends
- The Forces Children’s Trust
- The Forces Pension Society
- The Royal British Legion
- The Royal School Hampstead Trust
- Veterans UK
- Veterans Welfare Service
- War Widows Association
- WAY – Widowed and Young
- Welfare Rights
- Winston’s Wish