Update: join us on 21st September 2022!

Hi everyone,

Hope you’re all doing well. Firstly, I apologise for the radio silence. Personally, it’s been a summer which I’ve been delicately balancing between taking all my remaining annual leave and being between jobs, so pretty intense to say the least.

Anyway, at Wimbledon, we’ve been mulling the future of the Club. Since Covid, it’s been tough with membership numbers falling. It’s been a concern but we’re pleased to say we’re not quite down and out.

Jan, Joe and I had been exploring potential change – perhaps a change of tact, change of venue, and so on. But the conclusion is firmly this; there’s no place like Wimbledon Library. After a summer recess, and not hosting a session on the first Wednesday of September, we’re back and taking each week as it comes. 

Our next meeting takes place on Wednesday 21st September. As we’ve done before, we’ll start at 7.15pm and if you plan on coming, it’d be great if you can attend sooner so you can help set up. A reminder to please use the Merton Arts Space (Compton Road) entrance if you arrive after 7pm. Before then, enter via the front.

We really would love as many of you to come as possible. We’ve booked for two sessions at the Library with the hope we continue beyond that point. But we can’t carry on without having enough bums on seats.

As an incentive, the meeting next week will be absolutely free. The 5th October meeting, we’ll charge the usual £6 entry. 

Next week will be hosted by Jan with the usual topics and fun in the first half, and in the second half, Joe will be doing a speech. There will be plenty of opportunities to flex your public speaking muscles. We hope it inspires you to come again, and hopefully again and again.

Please email ascwimbledon@gmail.com if you want to receive future Wimbledon Speakers Club updates.

Over and out for now. Please ask any questions if you have any, and I’ll be happy to answer.

Best regards,

John

John Price
President, Wimbledon Speakers Club

Wimbledon Speakers Club invite you to join them for a special evening

Manage your fear of speaking in public – with help from science

A workshop on how to apply findings from scientific research to help reduce your anxiety and improve your performance when speaking in public.

Presented by:

Dr Alice Herron
Adjunct Professor of Psychology 
Fordham University, London Centre

Dr Herron is an experienced lecturer, workshop leader and speaker. She has extensively reviewed scientific interventions for speaking anxiety and is currently writing a self-help book on the topic. In this workshop she will lead the audience through one of the most effective interventions for fear of speaking.

Wednesday 19th January 2022
7.15 – 9.15 pm (doors open at 7.00pm)
Wimbledon Library
(Enter by side door for Merton Arts Space, Compton Road)

Entry is free to members of the Association of Speakers Clubs
Visitors – £6 (cash only) at door

New entrance

Wimbledon Speakers Club is well and truly back. Our first session took place on 15th September and it was so good to see familiar and new faces.

Since our last meeting, we’ve been informed of a new change – before, we could enter the library via the entrance on the right side of the building opposite the church.

Now, we need to let people on the left side of the building – at Merton Arts Space entrance on Compton Road.

Our next meeting is on Wednesday 6th October, from 7.15pm – look forward to seeing you then.

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