Youth Philately around Australia
[ from APF News, July 2010 ]

Like many Australian philatelists, I visited the International Show, London 2010, which was held at the Business Design Centre in the Islington suburb of London from 8-15 May 2010. It was a great Show and I was able to meet youth leaders Ian Varey, John Davies and Rosemary Browning in the bright and colourful Youth Corner there. Under the APF Youth Development program they received some Australian stamps and the right to use the puzzles published in The Young Collector. There were plenty of activities for the young people including a very colourful activities book and a goodie bag!

Stamp Albums for Young People

Alex Stoneman, President of the VPC, has recently initiated a great project to get young people collecting Australian stamps. With the assistance of Australia Post he has developed an Album of Australian stamps featuring Victoria. The APF has picked up the project and will be encouraging the other States to get similar programs underway. John Sadler has written an article for Stamp News on the project and the albums are going to be posted on the APF website's Youth pages.

There has been quite a lot of activity in the various States since my last report. For example Jenni Creagh describes her "spuds" system for auctions, Joan Orr has been busy dispatching prizes, and Ken Stocks is "growing" postmark collectors in Tasmania! Now read on…….