Our supporters

We would like to gratefully acknowledge the following for their significant support towards the RAF Museum

 

and many of our supporters who wish to remain anonymous

Virgin Atlantic Corporate Team visit the RAF Museum

The Royal Air Force Museum is thrilled to announce its new partnership with Virgin Atlantic, naming the esteemed airline as the Museum’s official airline partner.

The collaboration between the RAF Museum and Virgin Atlantic highlights a shared dedication to inspiring everyone with the RAF Story, while preserving and celebrating aviation history, and strengthening transatlantic connections.

The new partnership will see Virgin Atlantic flying Museum representatives between the UK and USA, enabling the team to attend events hosted by the RAF Museum American Foundation that support the Museum’s fundraising opportunities in the United States.

 

Arts Council England

The national development agency for creativity and culture. They invest public money from Government and the National Lottery to help support the sector.

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Babcock International

Babcock is an international defence, aerospace and security company which delivers engineering support and critical systems to defence and civil markets.

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BAE Systems

BAE SYSTEMS is a global systems, defence and aerospace company with international reach as a prime contractor and systems integrator in the air, land, sea and space defence market sectors.

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Civica

Civica makes software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local government to central government, to education, to health and care, they are a global GovTech champion, helping to serve citizens.

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Foyle Foundation

The Foyle Foundation was formed to implement the will of the late Christina Foyle and is an independent grant making trust that distributes grants to U.K. based registered charities and schools. 

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Garfield Weston

Is a family founded grant-maker that gives money to support a wide range of charities across the UK.

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Heritage Lottery Fund

Every year the Heritage Lottery Fund helps millions of people throughout the United Kingdom to care for and protect our heritage, to learn about and enjoy our heritage, and improve the quality of life for our own and future generations.

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Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence

The Ministry of Defence aims to ensure the security and defence of the United Kingdom and the Overseas Territories, including against terrorism and also to support the Government’s foreign policy objectives, particularly in promoting international peace and security.

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National Heritage Memorial Fund

The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) was set up to save some of the UK’s finest heritage at risk of loss. NHMF provides financial assistance towards the acquisition, preservation and maintenance of some of the UK’s finest objects. NHMF creates a world-class collection that belongs to the people of the United Kingdom forever. 

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Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space, aeronautics, defence and cyberspace to meet the ever-evolving needs of their customers worldwide. They use science, technology and engineering to create and deliver advanced systems, products and services.

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Really Useful Box

Established in 1999 to develop a range of innovative plastic storage boxes. They have the World's largest range of transparent, strong, stacking storage boxes.

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Royal Air Force

For over a hundred years the Royal Air Force has defended the skies of Britain and projected Britain’s power and influence around the world. 

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Royal Air Force Museum American Foundation

RAFMAF exists to ensure the shared aviation heritage of the United States of America and the United Kingdom is kept alive in the memories of our two great nations.

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SecureCloud+

SecureCloud is a service delivery partner within the defence industry. It was founded in 2014 to solve some of the biggest challenges in how Defence uses technology to enhance how it securely collaborates, makes improved use of data to make more effective decisions and assuredly protects the Defence community.

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Swire Charitable Trust

For over 45 years the Swire Charitable Trust has supported the work of charitable organisations in the UK. are funded by John Swire & Sons Ltd, the London-headquartered parent company of the Swire Group.

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Virgin Atlantic

Virgin Atlantic first took to the skies in 1984 since then they have become Britain’s second-largest carrier, with non-stop transatlantic routes from London Heathrow including New York, Orlando, the Caribbean, Delhi and Johannesburg. 

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