Elvet Speakers Toastmasters Durham UK

04/12/2025

Guests and members please join us on December 15th for a meeting with a festive theme. Discover your voice and practice public speaking skills in a friendly festive atmosphere. We look forward to seeing you there! 18:30 start.

04/04/2024

Meeting dates for April and May 2024:

Monday 15th April
Monday 29th April
Monday 20th May

6:35PM for a 6:45PM start at the Dunelm Club, New Elvet, Durham as usual.

See you there!

30/03/2024

Following the area 15 contest, the winners go onto the Division N contest.
There are spots still available! You can book to attend this contest next Saturday 6th April - https://www.bradfordspeaks.co.uk/divnisec24/

18/03/2024

What a wonderful day we had. Thank you all for attending and taking part in the Area 15 contest on Saturday. We were inspired with the speeches and speakers. Congratulations to our winners who go through to the next round! 👏

Our regular meetings resume tonight at 6:45pm. Hope to see you there!

26/02/2024

Our next meeting will be on Monday 4th March, 6:40PM for a 6:45PM start as usual. See you there!

29/12/2023

I hope you've all had a wonderfully festive Christmas.

Our next meeting resumes in the new year on Monday 15th January 2024 at 6:40pm for a 6:45pm start.

All are welcome!

22/11/2023

What a fantastic meeting we had on Monday. A jam packed full house. We may need a new venue at this rate!

Brilliant prepared speeches and impromptu table topics.

The next meeting will be held on Monday 4th December 2023, starting from 6:30pm as usual.

All are welcome!

07/11/2023

Bulletin - 6th November 2023.

Another full house tonight.

Veteran CHRIS led us through as Toastmaster, beginning with a warm up where we had to tell a lie about ourselves - A fantastic way to break the ice and bring humour to our meeting.

Aaron was tonight's Grammarian, providing us with our Word of the Day - Gaffe ('A social blunder') which was used 4 times through the meeting.

Timekeeper Carl, our recent humorous contestant kept us all on track with a humour-oriented spin.

We had the pleasure of hearing three fantastic speeches (two of which were outstanding Icebreakers).

Our evening's Table Topics (Impromptu speaking) was led by Avinash, testing us all with challenging philosophical questions.

Thank you all for great evening. Already looking forward to the next meet.

17/10/2023

CONGRATULATIONS - To all members at Elvet Speakers, for organising and hosting a fantastic contest.

Contests are a great way to push our boundaries in public speaking and last night's contest was a perfect example of this.

Thank you to our Contest Chair - BAILEY NG for organising such an enjoyable, successful night.

Thank you to ALL members who contributed in various roles, ensuring a smooth-running contest.

Congratulations to all members who participated;

Avinash Agarwal, Kevin Baggs, Aaron Day, Michael Harkness, Carl Pourreza and Craig Sagar. - WELL DONE EVERYONE!

Humorous Speech:

3rd Place to Avinash :)
2nd place to AARON :)
1st place to CARL :)

Table Topics:

3rd place to MICHAEL :)
2nd place to AARON :)
1st place to CRAIG:)

Huge achievements everyone. Best of luck to Carl and Craig in the next round at Areas. :)

03/10/2023

Our first meeting of October had much to celebrate with TWO Icebreakers. It's fantastic to see more new members venturing out on their toastmaster journey.

For Table Topics - Jason Webb set some great topics for everyone, to spark our imaginations.

Congratulations to Aaron for winning with the topic -
'Caulk Dispenser Salesmen'

Next week is Contest Time. Any paid member can enter the Humorous or / and Table Topics. A great way to push those boundaries.

19/09/2023

What a fantastic full house last night - with the theme;
'Back to School'

We had a mix of memories and emotions of going back to school, during our warm up.

Three excellent speeches
Three supportive and constructive evaluations and
'Back to school' Table Topics.

Awards;
Best speaker Award to Arron with the title 'The Edge'

14/09/2023