By Elena Fanaberova. (Edited by Swarajit Das). Introductions The meeting was opened by the club’s Past President, and acting President for the evening, Nazia Soon. In her very welcoming introduction Nazia clearly explained, for the benefit of our guests, the organization of the worldwide Toastmasters family and how to become a competent speaker and leader […]
Introductions Monday’s meeting saw Bloomsbury Speakers safely back in its regular venue of the Rugby Tavern after a couple of months of venue-hopping while the Tavern was being refurbished. Club president Glen Long opened the meeting by saying how pleased he was to be back ‘home’ and commented on how great the pub looked after […]
By Elena Fanaberova. (Edited by Glen Long). This Monday Bloomsbury Speakers hosted its Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest, with five club members competing in each contest. Dave Longley acted as contest chair and did a great job of setting the context for competitions from a Toastmasters perspective: Speech contests are an important part of […]
Hello and welcome to the September Newsletter! August was an interesting month – particularly for those of us living in London! – but despite the rubbish weather and the unusual events at the start of the month it was a good one for Bloomsbury Speakers. Recent news We had two very well-attended meetings in August […]
Written by Elena Fanaberova (edited by Glen Long) Introduction The meeting was opened by Club President Glen Long. In his introduction he referred to the new design rebranding of Toastmasters International and invited members to “rebrand” their relationship with Toastmasters as being “in training to be an excellent communicator”. Then Glen handed the meeting over […]