Business Focus Toastmasters Club - Toowoomba

13/10/2026

Fabulous meeting last night. From Welcoming guest Larry, celebrating Steve Whitehouse birthday this month to great evaluations and speeches.

Our ribbon winners were:
Most Improved Namal Nimalasena
Best Prepared Julia Hassal who presented her reflection on Engaging humour pathway
Best and passionately presented Evaluation Lily
Best Table Topic Warren King

Namal presented very thought provoking and interesting table topics and Warren and Ryaan evaluated our evaluators which goes a long way to helping us all improve.

Love to see you join us next meeting on 27 October at 6pm.

10/10/2026

What an amazing conference today where 4 of our members represented our club. 3 came out with places.

Please help us congratulate
Clinton Payton who placed 1st in the Evaluation contest
Warren King who placed 2nd in the International contest.
Dee Homan who placed 2nd in the Humourous contest
Julia Hassell who whilst didn't place today provided a great table topic in response to "what is your most valued possession and why".

Well done and huge congratulations to them all. Great examples of what can be achieved when breaking out of one's comfort zone.

10/10/2026

And the cream of the crop of speech contests, the International speech where the winner will represent Area 1 at Western Division in February 2027, was amazing.

We are very proud of BFT member Warren King who represented us today.

And the winners are:
1st - Brendan Bernier from Toowoomba Toastmasters club
2nd - Warren King - from Business Focus
3rd - Lynda Blackstock

Congratulations to all competitors. Very well done delivering amazing speeches

10/10/2026

Evaluation contest results at Area 1 conference are below.

BFT is very proud of our President Clinton Payton who competed in this contest.

The winners are:
1st - Clinton Payton
2nd - John Bushell
3rd - Larry Arnold

Congratulations to all competitors and to thr place getters

10/10/2026

Congratulations to all who competed in Table Topics at Area 1 conference today.

We are proud of our member Julia Hassall who competed. It was a tricky topic - most valuable possession and why.

The winners are
1st - Bob Goodwin from Compass Toastmasters
2nd - Julian's Caines from Darling Downs Toastmasters
3rd - Brendan Bernier from Toowoomba City Toastmasters

10/10/2026

Area 1 Conference today. Enjoying some fabulous speeches.

Business Focus is extremely proud of one of our newest members Dee Homan who placed 2nd in the Humourous contest. Congratulations Dee

1st place - Mark Windley from Darling Downs Toastmasters
2nd place - Dee Homan our very own BFT member
3rd place - Samita Thapa from TRC Toastmasters

Congratulations to all.

08/09/2026

We had a great contest night last night. 7 people competed in Table Topics and 5 in Humorous contest. And so amazing that some of our new members had a go with 1 winning the humorous contest.

We also celebrated our September birthdays with cake. Happy Birthday to Warren and Daniel.

And the winners are:
Table Topics
1st Julia Hassall
2nd Clinton Payton
3rd John Clarke

Humourous
1st Dee Homan
2nd Ron Hawkins
3rd Marcus Landers

A huge thankyou to club members that worked hard behind the scenes to judge, time, ballot count and take on sergearnt at Arms and Contest Chair. Thankyou to our guests Adam and Gary from Compass and Sharon from Darling Downs and Mardi Payton for support.

08/09/2026

Tonight we see some courageous members battle it out in the Table Topics and Humorous contests. Looking forward to a fun night.

Contests helps us challenge ourselves using our practised skills we learn at each meeting

See you at 6pm

09/08/2026

If you are looking for a supportive organisation to help boost your confidence, improve meeting procedure, reduce filler words from your speaking - a club meeting or joining a club is for you.

You are welcome to join us at our next meeting 11 August at 6pm for a 6:15pm start

26/06/2026