Dates for Your Diary
Dates and Programme for 2021
Please note that dates for 2021 are subject to UK Government Covid-19 pandemic guidelines.
All Member Meetings during 2021 will held at the Royal Philatelic Society London, 15 Abchurch Lane, London, EC4N 7BW.
All meetings commence at 11.00am with tea/coffee served at 10.30 in the lounge.
6th February 2021: Members’ Annual Competition Day. This will be by submitted photocopied, or printed scanned, entries only sent to the Competition Secretary. Graham Winters will be acting as judge. PLEASE NOTE NEW ARRANGEMENTS FOR COMPETITION ENTRIES BELOW.
The Competition Rules, and the Competition Entry Form to be sent with each Competition entry. These can be downloaded from the following links:
Competition Entry Form (PDF file)
Competition Entry Form (Word document)
17th April 2021: Members’ Meeting: Theme – Smaller Channel Islands. NOTE NEW MEETING DATE. MEETING TO BE CONFIRMED. THIS REPLACES THE POSTPONED MEMBERS WEEKEND WHICH WILL NOW BE HELD JULY 2021
23rd – 25th July 2021: Members’ Weekend at The Three Swans, Market Harborough. Details to follow. PLEASE NOTE NEW DATES
25th September 2021: Annual General Meeting followed by room auction and members’ displays. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOW THE AGM AND NOT AS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED
4th December 2021: Members’ Meeting: Displays – Theme is ‘Letters Q, R and/or S’.
NB: Each Members’ Meeting at 15, Abchurch Lane usually starts with a 50-lot room auction. If you wish to bring an item or items please contact Gerald Marriner.
Joint C.I.S.S. and R.P.S.L. meetings in Guernsey
John Triggs has kindly forwarded me the dates for the joint C.I.S.S. and Royal Philatelic Society London (R.P.S.L.) meetings for 2021. Meetings are held in the Sark Room, Les Cotils, St Peter Port, Guernsey. All C.I.S.S. or R.P.S.L. members are welcome to any of the meetings. Please contact John Triggs for further details if you are attending by either telephone: 01481 725847 or email: guern1974@cwgsy.net
Dates are: 29th January, 26th February, 26th March, 23rd April, 28th May, 25th June, 30th July, 27th August, 24th September, 29th October and 26th November
FAIRS
The Channel Islands Specialists’ Society will be attending MidPex 2021 which will be held at the Warwick Events Centre, Leamington Spa, CV31 1XN on Saturday, 3rd July 2021.
Members′ Displays elsewhere.
Members regularly give displays all over the country, and occasionally overseas. Please let us have details, including the title/topic of the talk, venue, the society/club being visited, and the date and time of the talk, so they can be publicized here and on the NEWS page of the website.
John Triggs is providing a display for the members of the Guernsey Philatelic Society on Wednesday, 13th January 2021. John’s topics for his display include Jethou, Brehon Tower, items from Brecqhou and Guernsey parish post.