Category: Speakeasy

Speaking at Reeds Reeds has been working along with Epsom Speakers Toastmasters club. They have been empowering students with public speaking skills. The way Epsom Speakers helps is by providing educational presentations and feedback. I was fortunate enough to be accompanied by Leo Gadson and Amanda Zwarts. Reeds has about 50 students that take part… Continue reading Toastmasters at Reeds – 22nd March 2019

18th March The room was buzzing with excitement this Monday for our annual club International Speech and Evaluation Contests. Eminent Toastmasters from other local clubs joined us, plus a good number of curious new guests. The meeting was opened by our Sergeant at Arms, John Drinkwater, who welcomed attendees. Many thanks to John for all… Continue reading Epsom Speakers Club Contests 2019

ESC Meeting 21st January 2019  ‘Blue Monday’ – but the atmosphere was fun-filled for our second meeting of the year. Costa, our temporary Sergeant at Arms, introduced the meeting and also presented the ‘Warm-up’, encouraging us to tell the meeting ‘What are you proud of?’. A really positive start! Dave Goodman was our Toastmaster, full… Continue reading How to have fun on a Blue Monday

ESC Club meeting 18th February 2019  It was a full house on Monday, we were pleased to welcome many guests and it was great to have them participating so fully in the meeting. Penny Williams was our able and experienced Toastmaster for the evening, leading a team of:  John Drinkwater as our lively new Sergeant… Continue reading Learn to share your ideas at Epsom Speakers

ESC Meeting Monday 4th February 2018 We had another lively meeting on Monday 4th. Mark Peacock was our Toastmaster for the evening and did a brilliant job, in charge of the proceedings. First of all we had a piece of club business – the election of our new job-sharing Sergeant at Arms, John Drinkwater. John… Continue reading Become confident at public speaking

Dear Epsom Speakers, For our first meeting of the year, former Area Director Ian Upton was Toastmaster of the evening, introducing a line-up of stars – with an excellent supporting cast. Costa Nicolaou, our hard-working VPE, doubled as Timekeeper and as temporary Sergeant at Arms to start the meeting. John Drinkwater was videographer and Elizabeth… Continue reading New Year, new presentation skills

Once again a lovely warm welcome from the team at Reeds. We enjoyed a delightful meal where I was able to chat with Adam Shaffer, the chairman of the evening, and Sally Briggs, one of the maths teachers. Mr Ha had done a great job on organising the event. As guest Toastmaster I was asked… Continue reading Reeds – 16th November

ESC Meeting 15th October (EGM, Variety and change!) Dear Epsom Speakers It was good to be back among you again, and it was an important meeting this week. Firstly we had an EGM to decide on our support of two new Toastmasters clubs in the area, Sutton Speakeasy and Reigate Rhetoric. The meeting was ably… Continue reading Change your life with public speaking

Dear Epsom Speakers, As always, the room was all set up and ready for what turned out to be most enjoyable evening. Well done to the Sergeant at Arms for this meeting, Chris Terry. Bang on time he brought us all to order so the meeting could begin. As Gillian was unwell,  I was the… Continue reading Epsom Speakers Meeting 1st of October 2018

Dear Epsom Speakers What a great show-case of talents we had last Monday! Our annual Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests brought out a galaxy of stars. Introduced by (VPE and contest organiser), Costa, our stand-in Sergeant-at Arms, Matthijs Houweling did a great job as chair of the Humorous speech Contest. We had four excellent… Continue reading Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests 2018