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Meeting Report for 28 November 2011

Written by Elena Fanaberova (edited by Swarajit Das) Introduction This was a particularly educational meeting with an extended prepared speeches section. We had a special guest from Holborn Speakers, Freddie Daniels, who treated us to an Educational Speech on evaluation tips as well as playing the General Evaluator’s role. The meeting was opened by Club […]

Meeting Report for 14 November 2011

Written by Elena Fanaberova (edited by Swarajit Das) Introduction This meeting was a must-see! There was a full house made up of club members, regular guests and many new faces. There was also general theme of humour and comedy, which meant that the meeting was loaded with jokes from start to finish! The meeting was […]

Club Newsletter – November 2011

Hello and welcome to the November newsletter! As this newsletter goes out, Toastmasters all over the country will be heading up to Glasgow for the Flourish Autumn conference, which starts this evening and continues through the weekend. There will be educational workshops, the UK & Ireland finals of the Humorous Speech and Table Topics contests […]

Meeting Report for 24 October 2011

Written by Elena Fanaberova (edited by Glen Long) Introduction The meeting was opened by Club President Glen Long who welcomed the new guests and gave an overview of Toastmasters, likening the ten speech communication programme to going to the gym – you need to keep “increasing the weights” to see progress. The Toastmaster of this […]

Club Newsletter – October 2011

Hello and welcome to the October newsletter! September was a busy month with a sold-out workshop (Andrew Brammer on Storytelling), two club contests (Humorous Speech and Table Topics) and a lively first meeting back in our home venue The Rugby Tavern. It’s great to be back in the Tavern, which is looking very smart after […]