May 23rd – A Powerpoint evening.
This is your chance to dazzel the club with an 8-10 minute presentation of your choice.

Friday 27th to Sunday 29th April – The National Conference in Cardiff.
Two and half days in the ASC bubble is more than a little insight, and a fine opportunity to see and hear the Association’s best speakers gather for the Topics, Speech and Evaluation finals. Katherine is represnting Wimbledon for the evaluation final. Do go along and support her.
There are 3 going from Wimbledon so far, and room for plenty more. Katherine can forward any booking forms and details to you if you need. The venue is the Marriott Hotel in Cardiff.

Wednesday 30th May will be the evening for the resurrected ‘London Out Loud’ Contest.
This is an interclub competition where teams of 3 from Wimbledon, Camden, City and Sutton clubs will gather to cast their light on the shared topic: “Win or Lose? Surely it’s the taking part”.
It is on the 5th Wednesday in the month so should not conflict with any other speaking night, and will be lots of fun. The venue will be The Irish Centre in Camden, and further details will be available shortly. If you have any desire or instinct to be a part of the Wimbledon team, and feel inspired by the subject matter, then please do let me know as soon as possible.

Our final meeting before holiday will be on Weds 27th June this year.

End of year celebration on Friday 29th June.
This will be very much along the lines of our fantastic ‘do’ last year, at the Antoinette Hotel, where there will be chance to eat, drink and be merry, and squeeze in some extra speaking too. Final ticket prices £25.00 please contact Katheryn, Craig or Deborah if you require a ticket, partners and friends are welcome also.

Saturday 21st July – The District speaking event is an afternoon of potential anarchy, as we trash all of the usual limitations about sex, politics and religion and debate some very serious (and not so serious) issues of the day. All Clubs in the South Eastern District will be represented, and of course even as an audience member, there will be lots of opportunity to participate. This will be held at The Irish Centre in Camden as this is a fairly central and accessible location for those travelling in from the North and the East. It’s a perfect opportunity to try out some different speaking skills, stimulate and challenge the mind, and meet new speakers from across the District, so do let me know if you are interested in taking part or coming along. We will be fielding our finest team!

So, lots of social fun and speaking options ahead this year; I hope that’s not too much information; naturally there will be more details to come as each occasion approaches.

WSC Annual Speech Contest – Subject is ‘Survival’ and quite a few sign ups so far… so be there or be square!!

A fun and lively evening was had, thanks to the participation of all who attended. Our MC of the evening Craig Nicol invented a spontaneous evening of games to ensure both Speakers members and their guests could get involved. He kept us all on track for the evening and even had time to participate himself in the games..!

Debra Owen Hughes and Celene Lee provided us with the after dinner speeches, which were both very entertaining, particularly the lessons learned while holidaying in Brazil!

Chrissy performed a super job of raffle ticket seller and indeed later Raffle host .. providing record ticket sales and then great descriptions for each prize.

Philippe was the Chair for the Just a minute game fending off / permitting challenges from the floor.

Sally was the resident Time keeper for the evening, ringing the bell vigorously when time was up.

Thanks to all for coming and see you all next year.

Have a look at the photos for the evening to soak up some more of the evening’s sense of fun.

Venue: The Antoinette Hotel, Wimbledon
Date: 17 June 2011
Time 7:30pm
Event: Three course meal, Speeches and Inter Club Competition.
London Club Members and partners welcome to attend.
Tickets £25 per person.
You can email us via the “Contact Us” option if you require more details or wish to book a place.
More details as they become available…

London Clubs end of year dinner

We would like to invite you to a very special summer speaking evening.

Tuesday June 21st, 7.00pm

Bloomsbury House
2-3 Bloomsbury Square,
London WC1A 2RL

Hosted by the College of Public Speaking, the evening has 3 elements:

- Michael Ronayne will perform 3 UK prize-winning speeches and will analyse some of the more advanced and less obvious ingredients that go to making a successful and engaging presentation.

- Members of the audience (if they wish!) will have the opportunity to take part in a scheduled impromptu speaking session

- Paloma Vivanco (who became renowned for her uncompromising style on the TV’s ‘Apprentice’) will be our special guest and will share some of her insights into the value of first rate communication in business.

Full details of the event are on the web-page below.

http://www.collegeofpublicspeaking.co.uk/Midsummer-MR.html

It will be a unique and stimulating occasion, not to mention – a very entertaining evening!

If you are interested in attending we would ask you to indicate your intention by reserving a seat with

vince@collegeofpublicspeaking.co.uk

I hope you can make it

Michael