Direct Marketing Fundraiser
Salary circa £31,000
Closing date: Friday 7th May 2010.
This is an exciting new role in a dynamic fundraising team based in our office in London and will involve raising significant support from individuals through the direct marketing programme. You will have responsibility for monitoring the recently increased investment in supporter development and recruitment through [...]

Why not come and check out our new RAF Benevolent Fund website,”90 Faces of the RAFBF”? Visit by clicking on the link below
www.rafbf90.org.uk
This great new site is a collection of 90 different stories about the supporters, history and work of the RAFBF.
There are audio and video clips, including interviews with our fundraisers and beneficiaries, archive material [...]

RAF Roundel on the 2009 Display Hawk
This year the RAFBF display Hawk contains the RAF Benevolent Fund Heart in the centre in recognition of the work of the RAFBF and the support that they have offered the Hawk Display Team over the years.
The tail fin, fuselage and top surfaces of the jet are painted with [...]

Each year the RAF Benevolent Fund celebrates its birthday on the 1 April, which we call “Founders’ Day”.  Established in 1919 (one year after the RAF), this year the RAF Benevolent Fund celebrates its 90th Anniversary.  On the 3 April, staff at the RAFBF Head Office in London enjoyed some fun and games to mark [...]

Take a look at the 4 the Forces blog - these fundraisers are attempting to raise £25,000 for British Armed Forces charities (RAFBF and SSAFA) by cycling from Lands End to John O’Groats! You can read about how they’re getting on and make your own donation.
Blog site: 4theforces.blog.co.uk
Donation sites:
www.justgiving.co.uk/4theforcesraf 
www.justgiving.co.uk/4theforcesssafa

Sample photograph donated by Colin Fenn
We’re planning a photographic auction to take place at the RAF Club on 14 May as part of our 90th anniversary celebrations and as a fundraising event.
We’ve been asking photographers if they will donate a print to be auctioned on the night and so far we’ve had a great response. As [...]

The new spinnaker sporting the RAFBF logo
Take a look at the new spinnaker displaying the RAFBF logo on the RAF Sailing Association yacht, thanks to Sqn Ldr Simon Ling. Racing at Cowes Week later this year, the logo should be seen by thousands watching from the shore.

British Forces in Basra held a six-a-side football competition on 15 March while also raising money for Project 65, a charity that supports the RAF Benevolent Fund as well as five other Forces charities.
To decide which team would wear which Premier League strip there was a charity auction during which teams could bid for their favourite.  The [...]

Project 65 has started a blog (runproject65.blogspot.com) where its runners are recording preparations for an ‘ultra’ run of 65 miles to Pegasus Bridge in Normandy later this year. Expect much talk of gruelling training regimes and plate-loads of pasta!
Project 65 was created to honour the memory of the men who took part in the Coup de [...]

So the blog is installed. What now? I know it doesn’t fit in with our website and so far I haven’t bothered to adjust the design settings - but the blog won’t live or die by those kinds of issue. It needs the real people, turning up regularly and typing stuff in. If that bit [...]