The Royal International Air Tattoo is staged by the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Enterprises (RAFCTE), the trading arm of the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust (RAFCT).
Since it was established in 2005, millions in grants have been handed out to a variety of groups whose projects meet the Trust's objectives.
Listed below are just a few of the ways in which the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Enterprises (RAFCTE), organiser of the Air Tattoo, is benefitting your local community:
We spend more than £1.5 million in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire setting up the airshow. When accommodation, food, fuel and other sundries are added, it is estimated that millions more is generated in the surrounding counties, with the service and tourism industries receiving the biggest boost.
The Air Tattoo provides a number of employment opportunities. The majority of RAFCTE's permanent staff live in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, and we recruit heavily from the local areas for temporary staff around the show.
Local homeowners turn spare rooms into B&B accommodation while homes with drives 'rent out' private parking spaces.
As in previous years, a limited number of complimentary Air Tattoo tickets are regularly made available to schools, charities and organisations in the area - on a rotational basis - to help them raise money.
We sponsor the Outstanding Business Student of the Year Award for students at Farmor's School as part of the Fairford and Lechlade Business Club Awards.
As a thank you to local
residents for their support, the Air Tattoo has a special offer on tickets. Residents are eligible for two half-price tickets per residential household for either Friday 14 July or Sunday 16 July.
In the Community
At the Air Tattoo, we believe it is important to do as much as possible to minimise the impact of the airshow on people living in our local communities. We are hugely grateful to all the parish, town, district and county council representatives who help us try and achieve this. In particular, we would wish to thank Kempsford Parish Council for its ongoing help and support as we recognise that residents living in the parish are routinely most affected by our activities each year.
We look forward to welcoming parish, town, district and county councillors to our Local Representatives' Briefing in May. This event not only allows us to outline our plans for the forthcoming Air Tattoo but also gives us the oppportunity to reinforce the excellent relations we enjoy with our neighbours. In addition to this, we also produce a Residents' Newsletter providing a wide range of information about the forthcoming airshow as well as contact details in case local residents require assistance during the event.
If you have a community matter relating to the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Enterprises, or any of its activities, please email moc/etcfar//srettamytinummoc
