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TAKE PART –
REMEMBER RAF100
As families, community groups and schools, you are all invited to take part in Remember RAF100, anew community engagement programme celebrating the formation of the RAF 100 years ago on 1April 1918. It includes commemorating over 44,000 RAF personnel who lost their lives during the First and Second World Wars and are buried or commemorated in the UK.
Come together with your local community to discover the story of the RAF during the First and Second World Wars and commemorate RAF personnel.
What you can do
There are more than 4,000 First World Wargraves and commemorations across the United Kingdom from the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force and more than 40,000 RAF service personnel from the Second World War. Youcan use aspecial database to find the graves in your region and arrange agroup visit perhaps, or simply as afamily activity to remember someone together.
Free information resources available
There is free informative resources and small-scale funding are available to community groups and schools across the UK in 2018.
•Anengaging A1 poster will explore RAF stories from one hundred years ago and suggest activities for groups to commemorate First World WarRAF personnel buried or commemorated in their locality.
•Aspecially-commissioned Remember RAF100 resource pack for primary schools, with creative activities for young learners. Register right away to get your copy of the pack.
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Remember RAF100 participants can create model paper aeroplanes to lay at graves or memorials, or to display in 2018 as an act of remembrance for the RAF centenary.
Groups can use Big Ideas funding to organise commemorative activities to commemorate RAF personnel, such as amusic concert, visiting the graves, leading atalk on local RAF history to their local community,organising acoffee morning or something completely different.
By joining Remember RAF100, groups are joining a nationwide commemoration project in 2018. The Big Ideas team will keep your group(s) updated with the latest project opportunities, events and resources through its e-newsletters. Contact the Big Ideas team with any questions or updates.
Remember RAF100 is acall to action to research and remember the stories of men and women buried in war graves in the UK. The initiative is led by Big Ideas and co-funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and RAF100.
For more information about Remember RAF100, email
raf100@big-ideas.org or visit
big-ideas.org
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