A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE FOR RAF FAMILIES
RAF ASSOCIATION FUNDS support to the Sick and Injured
C
onversations between the RAF Association and RAF Community Support have identified
the need for a civilian post within the RAF Recovery Pathway, to provide specialist employment advice to those transitioning out of the Service because they are sick, wounded or injured. Te RAF Association has agreed to fund this.
The post will not only provide advice for those injured in theatres of war, but also to members of the RAF injured in road accidents or those facing life threatening illnesses such as cancer.
RAF Community Support applied for the funding, which would place someone in the post for up to a year and, following consultation on the proposals, the RAF Association was happy to help.
The Association’s Secretary General, Jane Easton, said: “The RAF Association provides help and support for the whole RAF Family in a wide variety of ways. When people think of the help we provide, they often think of our serving personnel or elderly veterans, but we also support those members of the RAF who have recently left the Service as well as the spouses and dependants of all who have served.
“When we received the request from RAF Community Support we were very pleased to help as it is so important that our brave Servicemen and women are looked after both during and after their service.”
The application for funding came at a time when the RAF Association’s trustees had expressed a wish to find new ways of keeping the Charity’s welfare funding relevant to the whole RAF Family. It also follows the success of its other campaigns – Storybook Wings, Miles More Minutes and the refurbishment of Contact Housing provision for serving personnel and their families.
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The RAF Benevolent Fund contributes to the funding of individual recovery plans for up to £15k per person. The funding of the specialist employment post by the RAF Association will be a complementery provision to this.
The RAF Association’s President, Air Marshal Sir Dusty Miller said: “I give my full support to this initiative as it gives direct support to those due to leave the Service as a result of being wounded, injured or sick. We would all want the best for our serving personnel who find themselves in these difficult circumstances.”
Group Captain Paul McSherry from RAF Community Support, who prepared the funding proposal, said:
“Defence recognises that our Service personnel undertake very demanding jobs in challenging environments. The care of our Wounded, Sick and Injured (WIS) personnel and their families remains one of Defence’s top priorities.
“This care is delivered across the Defence community by the combined efforts of the Services and the Service charities responding to carefully tailored individual recovery plans setting out a recovery pathway.
“For the RAF, recovery activity is intended to ensure that our WIS personnel (irrespective of the cause of their injury or sickness) have access to all the key services and resources needed to help them return to duty or make a smooth transition to an appropriately skilled civilian life.”
For further information on the RAF Association and to find out how you can help, visit
www.rafa.org.uk or telephone 0116 2665224.
www.raf-ff.org.uk
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