Hello and welcome to the August newsletter! Despite the unusually pleasant UK summer this year, we’ve already had several well-attended events in July, including a full programme of regular meetings, a ‘Speakathon’ and a special Humorous Speech and Table Topics workshop. August and September promise more of the same with another workshop, more meetings and […]
Introductions President Swarajit welcomed guests and members to the meeting and spoke about the benefits of visiting other clubs in order to get experience in front of an unfamiliar audience. He also mentioned that the first meeting of Bloomsbury’s sister club Clerkenwell Speakers had taken place and encouraged members to visit it for themselves. The […]
Introduction Still very fresh, our President Swarajit opened the meeting by giving a brief history and the purpose of toastmasters before introducing the toastmaster for the evening. Joe Lake the toastmaster explained the three-part programme – 6 prepared speeches and evaluations with no impromptu speaking as it was a special evening to give members an […]
Hello and welcome to the July newsletter! This is my first newsletter as your new President, and I’m very much looking forward to fulfilling this and all the other duties that come with the role over the next twelve months. Of course I can’t do it alone, but our new committee members Jo, Rajeev, Rufina, […]
Introductions Brand new President Swarajit opened his very first meeting by telling the story of how he came to join Toastmasters three years ago before handing the meeting over to his immediate predecessor Femi who was the evening’s Toastmaster. Femi explained the three-part programme – prepared speeches, evaluations and impromptu speaking – and introduced his […]