Apart  from awards at exhibitions, a number of awards are made nationally and internationally; those of particular interest in the United Kingdom are as follows:

Roll of Distinguished Philatelists

The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists records those who have achieved international recognition for their outstanding studies and research in the philatelic sphere, demonstrated through their own collections and in their writings. Invariably those who are invited to sign the Roll have benefited the philatelic community through their expertise, time and talents given in a voluntary capacity. The Roll is signed each year during a prestigious ceremony held as part of the annual Philatelic Congress of Great Britain.

A recent meeting of the Board of Election to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists decided unanimously to ask the following to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists at the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain held in Croydon in 2007.

Paulo Comelli Brazil

Dr Ulrich Ferchenbauer Austria

Dr Peter P. McCann United States of America

View the Philatelic biographies of the four 2007 Signatories.

 Rowland Hill Awards

For more recent involvement in philately and to reward innovative ideas, these fall into three main sections and are nominated as follows:

• Royal Mail
  
  
• The Philatelic Traders' Society
  
  
• The British Philatelic Trust in conjunction with the Association of British Philatelic Societies

• Personal Contribution to Youth Work
• Young Collector
• Authorship/Research
• Community Work/Team Work
• New Horizons

Members of the ABPS can put forward nominations for any of these awards.

The Congress Medal
Awards of Merit

Nominations should be made on an approved form, available during the nomination period from this site.

Completed forms duly signed and seconded by Officers of the nominating organisation and approved by the candidate, should be returned to the Chairman of the Awards Committee.

Congress Medal