Wimbledon Speakers Club

Wimbledon puts its best foot forward once again. On St Patrick’s Day, Michael (the man in green!) wins the South Eastern District Topics contest and will therefore go on to represent the District at the National Finals over the weekend of April 26th – 28th at Castle Donington near Birmingham. Wimbledon’s other London representative Alice took part in the Speech contest and shared a strong message on the lure of diets in a speech entitled ‘Hope springs eternal’. She came third in a strong field of eight speakers.

On Saturday February 23rd Wimbledon hosted the finals of the London Area contests.
With a long club tradition behind them and great expectations on them, neither Alice nor Michael disappointed.
In a packed room, Alice (pictured with SE President Ian Price) won the speech contest for the second time in 3 years and Michael came out on top in the Topics contest.
Each will go on to represent London in the SE District Final in Maidstone on March 17th.

Congratulations to Alice on a very successful speaking month. Following on from her 3rd place in the Corporate Challenge Speaking Contest hosted at the English Speaking Union earlier in December, she has now been crowned this year’s Wimbledon Speech Champion, beating Alan Keegan narrowly into 2nd place at this year’s annual club contest. Chief Judge was former ASC National President, Gwyn Redgers, pictured here with Alice proudly receiving the trophy.
We wish Alice well as she moves on the the London Area Contest in the New Year. Wimbledon Speakers has a proud history of national champions and we hope that Alice can go one or even 2 steps better than her National Contest 3rd place 2 years ago.