Report on the meeting of the 24th Sept

Sometimes there is something special in the air. This was the case at this meeting. We had half a dozen new people, many established speakers and a terrific evening! Croydon club has developed and led the way with the use of PowerPoint. We had a tutorial covering the new PowerPoint levels. We had a speech that was also a tutorial on the art of putting together a speech, and finally we had a good example of a pure speech. That was only the first half!
After a full business session, the topics gave everyone the chance to speak and every single new member took the opportunity and not only spoke, but did so with confidence, humour and interest. Well done to each and every one of them. The evening was expertly chaired, the evaluations were specific and helpful and the evening a total success. Well done to everyone for making the evening special.
Next meeting on the 8th October will feature a 5 minute guide for new members, followed by an evening of level two speeches - the say what you mean, and say it with passion and in a convincing style. See the side-box for more details. Come along and learn, enjoy and participate.

The first meeting of the new season

This was a great start to the new season, it was a well attended meeting despite a number of the regulars being missing. The meeting was chaired by Frank and we had 4 excellent speeches, with Sana giving her Ice Breaker, Stan doing a Level 5, Use of Voice, Ray a Level 8, Humour, and Garard a level 9, Rapport. We welcomed two new people Lucy and Dylan and we all look forward to seeing them at the next meeting.