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Jules Eaton’s Website |
The RAF Benevolent Fund exists to provide assistance, regardless of rank, to those of the extended Royal Air Force family who need support as a consequence of poverty, sickness, disability, accident, infirmity or other adversity. Lord Trenchard founded the Fund in 1919, one year after forming the Royal Air Force. Its remit then was to provide direct welfare assistance to those of the extended Royal Air Force family in need or distress. Today, the Fund's purpose remains the same. In particular, the Fund has always been very generous in support of the RAF Widows’ Association, with which I have very close links. |
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Will you sponsor me? |
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You’ve had all the soft soap—now the hard sell! I can’t promise that I will finish but I am going to attempt the TGO Challenge, come what may. I am paying for all my own kit, entry fees, travel and food, and using annual leave, but will you please sponsor me? The charities that I have chosen are the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund and Help For Heroes. |
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Help For Heroes aims to help our wounded Service personnel. It is strictly non-political, and takes no position on the rights or wrongs of British military involvement. As Appeal Chairman Bryn Parry says: “We only know that, just as there is a time when we need our servicemen, so there is a time when they need us. That time is now. We want to help the men and women who have become casualties in the line of duty. Help for Heroes will mobilize, guide and channel all the goodwill that I am convinced millions of people in the UK share with me. My personal goal is to meet an initial target of £5m to be used to help provide urgently needed specialist facilities at the tri-service rehabilitation centre, Headley Court.” |
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Montrose or Bust! |