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 Read more about A Visitor from Canada[…]
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 Read more about A Very Busy April![…]
At the end of January three members of Sutton Coldfield Speakers’ Club judged the Youth Speaks Competition organised by the Rotary Club of Wylde Green. Youth Speaks offers young people the experience of speaking on a public platform as a member of a team. Competing in this year’s competition were Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School, Highclare Read more about A Competitive January![…]
Our final ‘formal’ meeting of 2015 was on the theme of ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and the two main speakers delivered very different interpretations of the topic. Alyson Dugmore spoke about Sir Titus Salt, who founded the village of Saltaire, near Bradford. She contrasted his business and technical sense, which he used in the construction of Read more about December 2015[…]
In October our newest member, Craig Collinge, took possession of his Speakers’ Guide. Craig had attended a couple of our meetings as a visitor and decided to join us. The Speakers’ Guide is a manual produced by the Association of Speakers’ Clubs and contains a structured step by step guide to writing and delivering a Read more about October’s News[…]
September saw Sutton Coldfield Speakers’ Club back in action after the summer break. Our first speaker of the new season was Claire Worsfold-Morris who told us why September is the scariest month of the year. David Dugmore gave an impromptu speech from a choice of three titles, handed to him only ten minutes before he Read more about A New Season of Speaking[…]