Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers' ClubNews items
Top speakers from Toastmasters International clubs throughout East Anglia competed for the titles of best speaker, and best evaluator, at the Division G Spring Conference at Great Barton Village Hall, Bury St Edmunds, on 20th April 2024. The winners go forward to the District 71 England, Scotland and Ireland conference at Portlaoise, Ireland, on 10th […]
Toastmasters Contests are one of the most popular aspects of club membership. Members who place first, and second in the International Speech and Evaluation Contest go through to the next round, at area level. The International Speech Contest is arguably the biggest contest in Toastmasters. The winner is decided each year at the Toastmasters International […]
We will be holding a guest night on Thursday, 25th January. If you would like to join us for the evening to get a taste of what happens at a Toastmasters meeting, we would love to see you. Participation is NOT mandatory!
Last night the area-level contest for Table Topics and Humorous Speeches was held in Martlesham. Ipswich Electrfiers did pretty well! The night was excellently hosted by the Martlesham SpeakEasy Toastmasters club. The competitors were speakers who won contests at their ‘home clubs’, including Chelmsford Speakers Club, Martlesham Speakeasy and our very own Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers […]
Last night was one of our annual competition nights and (as usual), the night was very entertaining and a little but educational. There were two flavours to the competitions last night, the first being the humourous speech category, and the second being a table topics competition. Humourous speech contest We started the evening with the […]
We held our AGM on Thursday, and in addition to nominating and voting for our committee members, we also held votes on some other club issues. After a very in-depth discussion about the pros and cons of running our meetings in-person and on Zoom, as a ‘hybrid meeting’ we voted to stop using Zoom for […]
Ipswich Electrifiers members join for a wide variety of reasons, and each member’s Toastmasters journey takes them somewhere new, and often to unexpected places. In a panel discussion during our meeting on the 13th January 2022 Ipswich Electrifiers member Julie Kenny will be hosting a session with guests who have arrived at some very interesting […]
A study has shown that the world’s most popular toy has outperformed other assets including gold, reports The Times. Secondhand Lego sets rose in value by an average of 11% a year between 1987 and 2015. Certainly, guests at Rob Southin’s wedding thought that Rob’s Lego cake outperformed any they’d ever seen. In a speech […]
Joining Toastmasters is a great way of developing our speaking skills and nurturing confidence in many areas of our lives. The friendly, relaxed atmosphere of Ipswich Electrifers also offers members a natural opportunity to make new friends. On Sunday 18th July 2021 we held our summer awards party, which was a chance to combine Toastmasters […]
We like to support our members in whatever they are do, not just in their Toastmasters journey. So congratulations to these Electrifiers who have been lighting up their worlds! Never too old to start afresh Congratulations to long-standing Electrifiers’ member Christopher Brown, who has taken the first step on the Pathways programme by completing his […]
When the club couldn’t meet in person we moved online. Read about our experiences.
The club celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2020
Julie Kenny, of Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers’ Club, has been awarded Toastmasters International’s highest accolade, the Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM).
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Member Cathy Shelbourne wins the Division G Table Topics contest
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Update from the spring contest