On Monday Jan 30th 2017 the club took advantage of the fifth Monday in the month to hold a Strictly Speaking and Evaluation event. Andrew Miller shared his story of how he progressed from winning our club competition, to winning in Area 15 to winning the contest to represent Division E in two District competitions.Continue reading ““How to craft a competition Speech” | Andrew Miller”
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Doncaster Speakers Meeting Report | Monday January 23 2017
Why do we come to Toastmasters? For the most part it is to improve our speaking skills and as a social event. But there is always more to each meeting than that. At this meeeting I was moved by a tale involving true love during WW2, learnt the value of challenging even the most basicContinue reading “Doncaster Speakers Meeting Report | Monday January 23 2017”
Doncaster Speakers Meeting Report | Monday November 28th
The meeting started on time and was attended by 16 people, 14 members and two visitors. Julie Gordon was the Sergeant at Arms for the evening and provided the meeting with provided details of facilities and timing of mid-meeting break. She introduced the Toastmaster for the evening, Andy Howell. Andy gave a strong introduction toContinue reading “Doncaster Speakers Meeting Report | Monday November 28th”
Doncaster Speakers Meeting Report | Monday October 10th
Sometimes a Toastmaster meeting takes place in spite of whatever is going on in our lives – and our meeting on Monday was one of those…. Steve Bisby stepped in as Toastmaster with just a few hours’ notice and chose the very appropriate theme of “Anything Goes”. Alison Turner brought the room to rights andContinue reading “Doncaster Speakers Meeting Report | Monday October 10th”
Success at Area 21 Speech Contests!
Congratulations to our members who competed at the Area 21 Speech Contests in Sheffield on October 9th and those who came to support them! Jean Stewart and Andrew Miller represented the club in the Humorous Speech Contest and Andrew Miller and Natalia Skorcewska in the Table Topics Contest. Andrew Miller took first place in theContinue reading “Success at Area 21 Speech Contests!”
Humorous and Table Topics Speech Contests Sept 26 2016
We had two excellent Speech Contests at our meeting on Monday September 26th. Bridget Pearson was Contest Chair for both and did a magnificent job both beforehand (there is such a lot of printing and organising of people!) and in leading the contests in a calm, assured manner. Well done! Shelagh Jones was Chief JudgeContinue reading “Humorous and Table Topics Speech Contests Sept 26 2016”
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