The AGM of Croydon Speakers was a positive event. We heard about the club’s progress, its current financial and other issues and thanked the officers for working hard.   We formally offered up the three main posts as well as committee posts.  Every member had an opportunity to participate and all positions were easily filled.  We change officers regularly so that the club remains fresh, open and honest.   Two successful speeches completed the first half of the evening.  An icebreaker from a new member, and a gestures speech from someone who joined earlier this season.  It is always interesting that without realising it, both speeches had some common themes which added to the interest.  As is the way in our club, we encouraged four of our newer members to take control of the second half of the meeting and a mighty fine job they did of it.   We guidance for everyone from an experienced evaluator, the evening was felt to be one of the best meetings of the season.   We are looking forward to only two more and a dinner before the summer recess.   Come along and enjoy the PowerPoint evening next week, or the last meeting in June.   Croydon Speakers continues to grow and leads the way in South London as the best club by far.

Wow…well then wasn’t it lovely to see so many people!  A packed evening with a packed hall meant our evening buzzed all through the evening.  The meeting brought two icebreakers, a business presentation using PowerPoint and a PowerPoint demomstration.   The tea break saw tea and cakes!  In the secand half, the topics session also used PowerPoint and yes some did challenge but isn’t that the point!  I totally believe everyone had a great evening and it was a great evening because of that!

I am so looking forward to the next meeting on the 24th May.  Please note:  The AGM section will only take up 1speech slot, so please don’t think we are not having speeches and topics because we are!!!

Well now we had a wonderful evening which saw our president chair the meeting.  We had 3 great speeches from some of our newer members which were well evaluated mainly experienced speakers except one.  We had a new member volunteer and she delivered it very well identifing goods points and point for improvement.  In the second half the Topics session was an interesting session based on decisions.  All in all another good evening which welcomed new people and saw new members rise to the challenge. 

There are not many meetings left before our summer holiday break, but we have a packed agenda and lots of speaking opportunities.

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Another exciting evening, with new members joining us. The evening saw two experienced speakers deliver fine speeches and an up and coming speaker give his structure speech. Our manual has been well recieved and we continue to strive forward in our independent state.

The topics session was chair by a newer member who challenged us all well with a job interview style topic session.

A great evening and we all look forward to our next meeting on the 22nd.

Christmas, New Year and snow all pushed aside and we all came back with some great enthusiasm and dedication. The meeting enjoyed an experienced member taking control of the evening and guiding us through an interesting and challenging evening. It was kicked off with an additional warm up for some to exercise their vocal cords and challenge them to read versus from well known poems. The task was to be over zealous and over act the verse which was tackle very well almost by all!! We then had two very good speeches by new members and we look forward to more from them. After a wonderful cup of tea and biscuit, we were all then challenged to a debit style topics session. This worked really well and everyone enjoyed the session. The evening was rounded off down the pub!

My thanks to those who came that evening and a very big thank you to the chairman!

The last meeting of the decade and it was my first attempt at chairing! Well there some improvement required there! However a very enjoyable evening with two great icebreakers and a very useful tutorial. A great evening had by all I think which was finished off in the pub for a festive drink!

Happy Christmas everyone.

Sometimes you are just amazed! We knew that many of our regular members were unable to attend, and I thought we might be a little short on numbers. Not so! We were delighted to welcome at least four people for the first time, as well as a couple of people returning to us. We had a terrific meeting. Confident speaking, ice-breakers, and everything working perfectly in terms of encouraging both new and experienced members to enjoy our art. It all goes to show that sometimes you just never know. We have a strong core membership that can give so much to newcomers, and they in turn encourage the whole club to develop and grow. It really is an uplifting experience to spend an evening at Croydon Speakers club. Already I am looking forward to our next meeting.

Unfortunately I missed the first meeting of October but I hear it was a small affair. What happened? I am not sure but what i do know was that the meeting continued and we hit back last night!

We enjoyed two ice breakers which were a great success and we all look forward to more speeches from our newcomers. We also had an impromptu speech from one of our seasoned members. Always a very difficult task and it was a expertly tackled.

Our topics session challenged us all and was hugely enjoyable and created lots of laughs and was brilliantly delivered by Frank.

All in all a very enjoyable and successful evening.

And did we have fun? oh yes!

This meeting treated us to a tutorial session on constructing a speech from a very experienced and professional speaker. A member took up the challenge to demonstrate how to deliver the speech we all contributed to create. We then all enjoyed a humor speech which was cleverly constructed speech in response to one of the speeches from the last meeting!

We also welcomed 3 more new members to the club and they all did a great job in delivering their first topic. The meeting in my mind was a great success and great start to the new speaking year. Roll on October!