Toastmasters Cambridge New Zealand

21/09/2026

Monday 21st September 2026. Our meeting was a hybrid one held in the Raceway building. Toastmaster Trish ran a very tight ship and the meeting actually finished 5 minutes early, the first time I've known that to happen.

The theme of the meeting was. "Country Calendar" and the speeches reflected that.

Here are some of the Table Topics speeches. They're short, only about a minute long.

29/08/2026

Monday's meeting, 31st August 2026, is on Zoom only. Just to be different this time, it will be in 2 parts- a Table Topics session with everyone taking part, and then a continuous story, where one person starts a story and others continue it, adding to it and varying it as the mood strikes them. It will be a good night.

20/08/2026

Here's a selection of Table Topics from last Monday's meeting, 17th August 2026. We enjoy this part of our meetings immensely.

13/08/2026

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06/08/2026

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21/07/2026

Monday night, 20th July 2026, was a meeting in person, apart from Julie who lives some distance away and uses Zoom regularly.

The Raceway makes a good venue, and last night's meeting let those of us who need an in-person audience have a great time. The jokes as one comment led to another came thick and fast.

07/07/2026

Monday, July 6th. Our meeting was held at the Cambridge Raceway and on Zoom. We're a hybrid club after the Covid years and we get guests and members from here to Britain and Spain.

The theme for the night was Diverse Thinking, and since we are a diverse club it suited us.

There was only one speech, in which Paul surprised himself by finding that his leadership style wasn't what he thought it was.

Erik's Inspiration address was fascinating, contrasting Poland of 1975 with Cambridge. It gave him a strong punchline to finish with.

We had 3 visitors tonight. Despite the high fees caused by currency problems, our membership is growing and we may have to find another venue. A good problem to have.

09/06/2026

Monday 8th June. We had our usual hybrid meeting tonight. We're having two of them a month now to keep costs down. The other two meetings will be on Zoom only.

The theme was "The Power of Gratitude" and the word of the night was "Attention."

We had two speeches, from Justin on his footballing career, from his start as a schoolboy, and from Julie on banned books. She had samples of books which had once been banned, like Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Both were good speeches and Julie's was something of an eye-opener.

Paul gave us some very good questions in Table Topics, centred on history, mostly recent, ie 20th century. Table Topics is always good fun.

All in all, an excellent meeting, as usual. The Raceway's room is a good venue though it's getting a bit small since we get visitors who like us and join up.

02/06/2026

A quick update: at our committee meeting last night, we decided to defer our open meeting until the 15th of this month. The venue is still the Cambridge Raceway.