Within the club

Many societies hold competitions around 1-page displays once a month. They are frequently based around a letter or subject and are judged by the members present. Often competing gains the entrants activity points while the place getters may receive a small prize for the event or extra activity points.

Some clubs have less frequent 4- or 8-page competitions which sometimes may include 16-page entries. In many cases the winners receive a trophy that bears the name of an honoured past (or present) member.

Inter-club

Many societies or clubs hold annual competitions between each other. The entries are generally judged using national philatelic criteria by a national judge.
Most of these are displayed at one of the societies involved and generally are not open to the public. An example of such a competition is that between the Kapiti, Horowhenua and Manawatu Philatelic Societies.
 
Other inter-club competitions can involve a much wider spread of entrants, judged by nationally qualified judges but are on public display often over two days. Examples of such competitions are:

Neville Harris Memorial Trophy
A competition between Hutt Valley, Kapiti, Upper Hutt and Wellington societies held at the Wellington Regional Stamp Show.

Ambury Shield
A northern region inter-club competition normally held on the 1st Saturday in November.

New Zealand Inter-club One-frame
A New Zealand-wide competition held at a venue and time selected by the team which won the previous year.