Last Tuesday we had the club competition! we had 7 members enter the Humorous competition and 8 entering the table topics. The results were: Humorous Contest1st place – Eamonn2nd place – Kondjo3rd place – Nicole Table Topics Contest1st place – Chris2nd place – Julian3rd place – Lee The 1st and 2nd place for both the […]
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Last Tuesday we had a great online meeting ably led by James as the Toastmaster for the first time! We had two prepared speeches by Chris on how AI will affect the way business is done in the coming years and how its something to be embraced, not feared, and by Nicole who shared with
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A great in- person meeting on Tuesday was led by our fantastic VPM Patricia setting the pace under the theme of “Going for Gold” with prepared speeches by: Special thanks to all those people who took up multiple roles through the night such as Adrian and Lydia and mega commendation for our returning member Kondjo
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We had a fantastic online meeting with three prepared speeches from Daniela who told us how she joined Toastmasters to develop “Ars Oratoria”, the art of public speaking , Adrian who told us about the difference between training, coaching and Mentoring, and Smita who skilfully improvised a speech based on 5 words chosen by the
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Last night was the first in-person meeting of the new term and it did not disappoint. @~Andrew made sure we all got in the groove as TM for the evening with energy and poise despite only taking on the role the day before! We were then treated to four fantastic prepared speeches delivered by: These
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We had our first meeting of the new term on Tuesday with our hugely impressive Vice President of Membership @Patricia Goka Soc stepping in at the final hour to act as Toastmaster for the evening and guide us through a meeting on the theme of “Change”. It was a great first meeting of the new
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Last nights meeting was a double-header, a meeting on theme that Knowledge is Power and End of term Awards. The meeting was led brilliantly by Francis King Martey in his warm engaging manner. We had 3 prepared speeches. Firstly, Eamonn asked us a question he asks his clients in his capacity as a financial adviser, ‘How much
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Our club Humorous Speech and Table Topics contest will take place on Tuesday 4 October 2022, from 7.15pm at St Mary’s Catholic Church. Any Speakers of Croydon member can enter regardless of what level they are at. Its a great way for our members to push themselves out of their comfort zone and on to
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In July 2022 Speakers of Croydon held our club elections, appointing a new committee to lead us into the 2022 – 2023 Toastmasters year. Before we introduce this new team, lets take a look back at the 2021-2022 Toastmasters year – and say thank you to the dream team who lead us through it with
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On Tuesday 15 March 2022, The Speakers of Croydon held it’s first club meeting in its brand new venue – St Mary’s Catholic Church on Wellesley Road. The Speakers of Croydon has an 18 year history and half of that time was spent at its previous venue, the CVA Centre in West Croydon, so this
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