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We hope you like the look of the Society website. We regularly update various aspects and we are always open to suggestions and offers of content. The members’ area offers access to the full Contact magazine archive in PDF form, fully indexed and viewable right in your browser, and all articles are made available, search-able from the box on the right. All Society members are entitled to a login username and password, which will be sent to you by email, or by request by contacting: admin@scandps.org.uk.

The Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1952 as the Scandinavian Collectors Club, to promote the collection of Stamps, Postcards and Postal History of greater Scandinavia. That is Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Åland Islands and also the former Danish Colony of Danish West Indies and the Norwegian Territory of Spitsbergen.

We meet regularly in the United Kingdom and hold an AGM weekend, usually in the spring just before Easter. These are informal events, visitors are welcome and dates are published here on the website. Scandinavia Philatelic Society publishes an award winning quarterly magazine journal, “Scandinavian Contact”, with news, research and other articles for its members. New members are always welcome and initial enquiries should be made to the Society Secretary at: secretary@scandps.org.uk

Seventy years ago

The handful of of founder members sat round a table in the Library of the Swedish Church in Harcourt Street, Marylebone, London and from that day the society has grown into a Society of some 300 members, the majority of which are resident in the U.K. but the membership does extend overseas.

An advertisement appeared in 1952 in the pages of "Stamp Collecting Weekly" inviting applications for membership to those interested in Scandinavian philately and in the first four years 165 members were enrolled. Meetings have been held in the Swedish Church since the first days of the Society, and they were sometimes prefixed by a visit to the Harcourt Arms opposite and sometimes a post-meeting visit also took place. The occasional Christmas party was arranged, hosted by Eiler Hansen at the Danish Embassy and the now non-existent Danish Food Centre.

Officer Reports – AGM 2025

Gwynne 06/03/2022 04/28/2025News

Reports will be published here as they are made available Chair’s report Firstly, I’d like to thank all those who’ve contributed to the Society’s activity over the last year. Contributions come in many forms. Obviously, the Society’s officers do a …...

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CONTACT Index – 1953 to 2025

Gwynne 06/12/2021 01/23/2026News

Just to let members know, I have just updated the index for CONTACT thanks to the dedicated work of Salo Heimann who completed this update quite recently but I always struggle to load it! My apologies. It is easy to…

Officers Reports – AGM 2023

Gwynne 04/14/2019 03/14/2023Minutes of Meetings

Reports will be published here as they are made available Minutes of the AGM – Saturday 28 May 2022 Gables Hotel. Falfield South Gloucestershire. GL12 8DL Our Chairman, Peter Rooke was unable to attend the AGM and sent his apologies.…...

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Scandinavia Philatelic Society and the Faroe Islands Study Circle

Gwynne 05/03/2016 11/05/2019Articles - General, Member Content

This is a reminder that the special joint meeting between the Scandinavia Philatelic Society (SPS) and the Faroe Islands Study Circle will be held on Saturday, 4 June 2016 at the Harnham Scout Hall, Lower Street, West Harnham, Salisbury, Wiltshire,…...

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Seventy years ago

Officer Reports – AGM 2025

CONTACT Index – 1953 to 2025

Officers Reports – AGM 2023

Scandinavia Philatelic Society and the Faroe Islands Study Circle