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How YOU could benefit from Toastmasters
Whether you're used to standing up to speak to an audience, or whether you think you could never overcome your nerves to speak out, Toastmasters can help you.
You will benefit from our practical, face-to-face learning programme to build both your confidence in public speaking and leadership skills.
No matter if you're speaking to the board of directors, your customers, your co-workers or your kids, Toastmasters can help you do it better.
You'll learn and practice in a friendly, comfortable environment with people who are there for the same reason you areto become better communicators.
What is Toastmasters International?
Toastmasters International is a non-profit organization which gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking abilities through local club meetings, training seminars and speech contests.
Toastmasters International includes more than 199,000 men and women in more than 9,300 clubs in more than 70 countries.
At Toastmasters, members learn by speaking to groups and working with others in a supportive environment. A typical Toastmasters club is made up of 20 to 30 people who meet once every two weeks for about an hour and a half. Each meeting gives everyone an opportunity to practice conducting meetings, giving impromptu speeches, presenting prepared speeches, and offering constructive evaluation.
Who are we?
While working in the USA, our founder, John Cox, was so impressed by the potential of Toastmasters for leadership and management training that he resolved to promote Toastmasters on his return to UK.
Finding that the nearest clubs were over 60 miles distant, he set up East Midlands Speakers Club as a local chapter of Toastmasters International. We chartered in June 2008. Here we are at our Charter Dinner, 'dressing to impress!'
Currently, we are the only Toastmasters club in the East Midlands, serving Nottingham, Leicester and Derby.
East Midlands Speakers achieved President's Distinguished Club status in its first year of chartership and also the Smedley Award for signing up five new members between August 1st and September 30th 2009.
Photos, videos, news and more.
View this video for a taste of what an international toastmasters' meeting is like.
Where do we meet?
We meet upstairs in a pub by the canal at Shardlow, just off the A50 and what was once the old London Road to Derby.
The Clock Warehouse
Canal Bank
Shardlow
Derbyshire, DE72 2GL Please view
Directions to find out how to reach us.
When do we meet?
7.30pm on the first and third Monday of the month.
Please view the Club Calendar.
Club number: 1200787
Download an application form, fill it in, and bring it with you to a meeting.
