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Hawthorn Toastmasters is part of Toastmasters International, a nonprofit educational organisation that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs.

On 3 December, Hawthorn Toastmasters had our final meeting for 2025, and enjoyed the annual Christmas dinner together. T...
21/12/2025

On 3 December, Hawthorn Toastmasters had our final meeting for 2025, and enjoyed the annual Christmas dinner together.

The meeting featured a Christmas theme, with members wearing interesting outfits. The trivia game brought the meeting to a climax when members were divided into six groups and debated specific topics such as “Do you support drones replacing Santa Claus to deliver Christmas gifts?”

At the end of the meeting, we also demonstrated progress towards the newly introduced “Smedley Distinguished Club”. What a fun night!

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Christmas and holiday season. See you in the new year! 🎄🎅🏻🧑🏻‍🎄🎁

It is with great pleasure that Hawthorn Toastmasters announces its receipt of the President’s Distinguished Award again....
30/10/2025

It is with great pleasure that Hawthorn Toastmasters announces its receipt of the President’s Distinguished Award again. Pictured are Immediate Past President Adrian Co***rd and Vice President Education Sara Garvey with the ribbon that will be attached to our honour banner. Congratulations to all members on this outstanding accomplishment.

We’ve just had the second leg of our club contest; Winners of International speech contest are:Philipp Schluter🥇Sandra G...
20/09/2025

We’ve just had the second leg of our club contest; Winners of International speech contest are:
Philipp Schluter🥇
Sandra Glass🥈
Adrian Co***rd 🥉

Evaluation contest winners are:
Philipp Schluter🥇
Isabelle Prentice 🥈
Sandra Glass🥉

The 1st🥇 place getters will compete in the E15 Area Contest on October 25.

Congratulations to all winners and participants, and many thanks to judges and the various supporting roles. We couldn’t have done this without you!

Hawthorn Toastmasters held the first leg of our contests on Wednesday 20 August.The winners of Humorous Speech Contest a...
25/08/2025

Hawthorn Toastmasters held the first leg of our contests on Wednesday 20 August.

The winners of Humorous Speech Contest are:
1. Sandra Glass
2. Lorenzo Huang
3. Adrian Co***rd

The winners of Table Topics Contest are:
1. Adrian Co***rd
2. Sandra Glass
3. Jo Gallagher

The first place getter will represent our club to compete in the E15 Area Contest in 25 October.

Congratulations to all winners and participants! Thanks to everyone who supported the contest !

This weekend, some members of our club attended the District 73 annual conference, held at the Amora Riverwalk hotel. Wh...
18/05/2025

This weekend, some members of our club attended the District 73 annual conference, held at the Amora Riverwalk hotel. What an uplifting and inspiring experience it was! We were treated to workshops with Verity Price (2021 World Champion of Public Speaking) who came all the way from South Africa for the occasion. International Director (Region 12) Monique Tonna was our other keynote speaker. Between the two of them, it made for an unforgettable weekend. Congratulations to all the District contest winners - and to the new leadership team on your appointments! To those who have never been to a conference, or are in two minds about whether to go - it is highly recommended!

Tonight we elected the new committee for our club - congratulations to everyone on your new roles (two new members were ...
07/05/2025

Tonight we elected the new committee for our club - congratulations to everyone on your new roles (two new members were absent from this picture); you’re sure to take Hawthorn Toastmasters to greater heights in 2025-26!

Once again, Hawthorn Toastmasters had the honour of receiving a Presidents Distinguished Award. Pictured here are Immedi...
19/03/2025

Once again, Hawthorn Toastmasters had the honour of receiving a Presidents Distinguished Award. Pictured here are Immediate Past President (Phil Wilkes) and Vice President Education (Hailey Zhang) with the ribbon, to be attached to our banner of honour! Congratulations to all of you - what another fantastic achievement for our club!

Tonight Hawthorn Toastmasters celebrated its 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th meeting! In its 42-year history (yes, it has taken THAT long...
05/02/2025

Tonight Hawthorn Toastmasters celebrated its 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th meeting! In its 42-year history (yes, it has taken THAT long to get to this point!), it has seen many members come and go. Tonight was a gathering of the troops, old and new, for an evening of food, fun and frivolity. After a delicious dinner of pizza and other delights, we heard speeches from Miriam and Colin, the two longest-standing members of the club (37 and 35-year veterans respectively). We were also treated to video montages and a scrumptious cake. All the past presidents made a joint effort of blowing out the candles! It was such a special and memorable evening, thanks in no small part to Laura’s efforts (with a little help from her organising committee!) A giant thank you to all guests and everyone involved in making this happen, and for your fellowship. Bring on the next 1000!

🎉🎉🎉Who will be joining us on this momentous occasion? Come one, come all and earn a place in the history books. After al...
21/01/2025

🎉🎉🎉Who will be joining us on this momentous occasion? Come one, come all and earn a place in the history books. After all, it’s not very often that we notch up a new millennium (of meetings) - it has taken our club over 40 years to get to this point! Hope to see you there! 🎉🎉🎉

And so it begins…another year, kicked off with another joint meeting with Kew Toastmasters! It is customary to begin the...
21/01/2025

And so it begins…another year, kicked off with another joint meeting with Kew Toastmasters! It is customary to begin the new (calendar) year with a meeting of the minds - two great clubs coming together for fun and fellowship. Furthermore, we got back the Travel Gavel (how long it will be in our possession is another question). This is presented to the club, who has the most members visit another club’s meeting. Here is our president Adrian receiving it from Margaret, the Kew TM president, with D73 Program Quality Director looking on - and here’s to another fantastic year!

Tonight, Hawthorn Toastmasters had our final meeting for 2024, combined with our annual Christmas dinner. It was a fun n...
04/12/2024

Tonight, Hawthorn Toastmasters had our final meeting for 2024, combined with our annual Christmas dinner. It was a fun night, with members wearing interesting Christmas-themed outfits (reindeer impersonations, anyone?) and enjoying delicious food. The trivia game was a hoot; who knew that “Jingle Bells” was the first Christmas Carol to be played in space?
Wishing everyone a safe and happy Christmas and holiday season and see you in the new year!🎄🎅🏻🧑🏻‍🎄🎁🌟

Some of our club members competed in the E16 Area contest yesterday. Rosalie Wallen participated in Humorous (placing 3r...
13/10/2024

Some of our club members competed in the E16 Area contest yesterday. Rosalie Wallen participated in Humorous (placing 3rd🥉) and Table Topics contests; Hailey Zhang participated in International and Evaluation contests (placing 3rd🥉 International), and our current president Adrian Co***rd was in the International and Table topics contest. Adrian came 1st 🥇 in Table Topics, so now he is off to the Eastern Division contest in February. Congratulations Adrian, Hailey, Rosalie and all the other contestants!

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