Through the advocacy of local Lions Club members Hilton Bloomfield and Dr Jon Phipps, six large tubs of stamps have been collected, with a rare find amongst them, a Penny Black stamp.

At auction, the rarest of Penny Black stamps has fetched for more than $200,000.

“We found a Penny Black stamp and passed it on to be auctioned, which is set for a date in June,” Bloomfield said.

The Penny Black stamp was the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, and it went on sale in Great Britain in 1840. There is said to be 68 million printed, with only 3.4 million thought to still be around.

With the evolution of technology and emails, it is a great feat that the community of Kiama has so far donated six 20-litre tubs of "collections" and generally used stamps.

The stamps are then passed onto the Australian Lions Children’s Mobility Foundation, where they are sorted by denomination and then passed onto auction houses.

“We often get people ringing and we collect the stamps and then pass them on,” Bloomfield said.

The ongoing goal for the ALCMF is to provide a walker to every child in Australia, who needs one.

As children are ever-growing, Bloomfield said “they outgrow their mobility and they have to get new ones, which cost thousands of dollars”.

A child in Kiama Downs is set to receive a mobility walker worth around $7500 as part of this initiative.

Earlier in the year, the ALCMF presented Bloomfield and Dr Phipps with a recognition of services award for their fundraising efforts.

For those who have recently cleaned out the garage or sorted through old boxes and have come across old collections or used stamps, they can be dropped into the Kiama Pharmacy on Manning Street or Blooms the Chemist on Terralong Street.