A huge thank you to all the volunteers who generously gave up their time on Saturday, 14th September, to greet visitors at our stall in Hitchin Town Centre. This was our second time running a Speakers event in the square and I am pleased to say that it was as successful as the first one.
Our President, Bradley Peters opening the event and Salman Lone manning the stall
The event was opened by our President, Bradley Peters, pictured, while Salman Lone continued to set up the stall with the flyers that he had kindly designed for us previously.
Salman giving technical assistance with the mic for Olli
Oliver Schlenker (Olli) took a turn at the mic informing the people in the square of all the many advantages that joining North Herts Speakers can bring. These include becoming a better speaker, developing skills and confidence to express yourself effectively and opportunities to build leadership skills – all in a supportive and friendly environment.
There were several debuts and demonstrations of bravery in overcoming resistance to using the mic. After Sophie Brown successfully gave it go, she encouraged and assisted Christine Evans-Pughe to do likewise. And Maria Iredale gave her first speech using the mic in the square. Well done all of you! More pictures are available on our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/northhertsspeakers
Dan improvising with the mic and Dorothy, Andrea and Trevor on the stall
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Dan Winterbourne is pictured above creatively engaging passers-by and supported by volunteers Dorothy Molloy, Andrea Lee and Trevor Fisher. Thanks again everyone for all your help on the day.
We are looking forward to welcoming some of our visitors to the stall to our meetings at the Sun Hotel in Hitchin on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month. Your can try us out for free for the first two visits with no pressure to speak if you don’t want to and plenty of opportunities if you do.
We had a very lively meeting on Wednesday, 4th September, with over 20 people joining in the fun. There were two Pathways Icebreaker speeches. Christine kicked off the evening with her first speech on Machines that Think? and treated us to an interesting experiment involving the sense of smell. Judith gave her first speech, entitled What do you See? and won best speech of the evening.
Charlie brought music to our ears with his second speech entitled Beats, Rhymes and Life, for the Presentation Mastery Pathway. Oliver gave us ‘food for thought’ with his speech about The Delight of a Chewy Meal. And Dan was presented with the best Evaluator award for the evening.
We then had five excellent table topics from Andrea with speeches from Maria, Sophia, Sam, Sharan and Enroy. Well done to the guests and new members. Maria won best Table Topics speech and is pictured below with Sharan who presented her with the certificate, and Bradley, our President.
Sharan, Maria and Bradley
Dorothy received her Competent Leadership award and badge and was thanked by the club President for all her hard work as Vice President for Public Relations over the last two years and for setting up and organising club events. She is going to be a tough act to follow!
Dorothy receiving her Competent Leadership Award
Come and join us for our next event on Saturday 14th September in Hitchin Market Square between 9am and 2pm. We will be running another Speakers in the Square where you can visit our stall and have a go in public with the mic.
Our next meeting is on Wednesday, 18th September, 7.30pm at the Sun Hotel and will be a contest night. Be great to see you there!
Our meeting on 7th August was well attended with over 20 people enjoying speeches and tabletopics. Oliver, one of our newest members, pictured below, won best speech of the evening for his first Icebreaker speech called Quest for Knowledge. Well done!
Well done Oliver – great first speech!
Our President, Bradley, gave an interesting speech called “Can you run at 200 mph?” Rose told a story about “Little Johnny” and Andrea introduced some excellent Table Topics. These are where members of the audience get the chance to give an impromptu talk for one to two minutes on a selected topic.
Dan, another new member, won best evaluator for the evening with his first ever evaluation. And our guest, Peter, won the best table topics speech on his first night.
Another first for the evening was for Karl who presided as Toastmaster of the evening and did a great job keeping us all in order.
Dan, Bradley and Peter – Great work guys!
Come and join us next week upstairs at The Sun Hotel in Hitchin. The meeting starts at 7.30pm and runs till around 9.45 or 10pm, depending on the number of speakers. It’s great fun and you can try it out for free.
Our meeting on 3rd July 2019 at the Sun Hotel treated us to three great speeches. The first one was How does it Feel by our new President, Bradley Peters. Then we had Sunbeam by Rose Saliba who won best speaker award for the night and the third was an informative speech on the Purpose of Business by Salmon Lone.
Congratulations Lynne!
The best Evaluator Award for the evening went to Lynne Wilkins and the best Table Topics speaker was Maria, one of our many new visitors.
