Sutton Coldfield Speakers’ Club held its last meeting of the 2016/17 season in July and we had a full program of speakers. Tom Hughes made his first speech, taking up the evening’s theme of ‘Waste not, want not’, he spoke about the history of this proverb and his experiences as a child of having to[…]
Sutton Coldfield Speakers’ Club held two regular meetings in June plus a social event. At each of these meetings we listened to three prepared speeches of around seven minutes each and these were then evaluated by members. The speakers were praised for the progress made and also given a suggestion on which of their presentation[…]
At our first meeting in May, we benefited from an education evening, given by the Association of Speakers’ Clubs’ West Midlands Area President, David Wike. David looked at two areas which are essential to becoming a good speaker. The first was the skill of speech evaluation. At Speakers’ Club, members evaluate the speeches given at[…]
Our twice-monthly meetings at Aston Wood Golf Club give all Sutton Coldfield Speakers’ Club members a chance to gain experience and confidence in public speaking. But as part of our program, we also get involved in the activities of our national body, the Association of Speakers’ Clubs (ASC) and also with the wider community around[…]
Sutton Coldfield Speakers’ Club hit the ground running in January with two meetings, a competition against Lichfield Speakers’ Club and an evening judging Youth Speaks. People join Speakers’ Club for many reasons but often it’s to gain skills for work presentations. Claire Worsfold-Morris used her slot on our program at the beginning of January to[…]
Sutton Coldfield Speakers’ Club held two meetings in October and welcomed seven new members! Several of our newcomers have now already made a short three minute ‘icebreaker’ speech on a subject of their choice and received constructive, supportive feedback from other club members. More of these mini speeches are planned for November and we look[…]
September saw Sutton Coldfield Speakers’ Club roar back into life following the summer break. The theme for our first meeting was ‘Crime and Punishment’ and we heard about everything from pre-meditated murder to pilfering from the office, as well as how to become rich from writing a best-selling thriller. Two ‘first timers’, Craig Collinge and[…]
July saw the last meeting of Sutton Coldfield Speakers’ Club before our summer break and it was lovely to welcome the three visitors who came along to see how we operate. Our chair for the evening was Craig Collinge and it was his first time in this role. Craig did a sterling job of running[…]
Sutton Coldfield Speakers’ Club welcomed a visitor from Canada to the June meeting. Doreen Hillier is a member of the Toastmasters organisation in her home country and she spoke to us about her journey from a very nervous novice speaker to the confident orator that she is today. Many of us are still on that[…]
We held three meetings in April instead of the usual two. Our first meeting carried the loose theme, ‘Force of Nature’ and John Murphy gave an impressive maiden speech about volcanos, earthquakes and other natural disasters. At our second meeting we broke with the tradition of three main speeches per meeting and instead held two[…]