Toastmasters Club

Harrovians Speakers' Club, we help you find your voice and your self-confidence.

Harrovians Speakers' Club is a local branch of Toastmasters International. We gives members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking, listening and evaluation skills.

Whether you're speaking to your customers, your co-workers or your children, or you are preparing for a job interview, 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 are—to become better communicators, listeners and leaders.

We meet on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Monday at 7.15pm for a prompt 7.30pm start. Our venue is the upstairs function room of The Wealdstone Inn, 328 High Road, Harrow Weald, HA3 6HF. See the "Directions" link for full details.

We start with around 6 "table topics" i.e. unprepared speeches of ~90 seconds. After a short break, we enjoy 4 prepared speeches (typically 6 mins per talk), with evaluations and conclude with a "General Evaluation" of the evaluators and the meeting itself. We start at 7:30pm and finish around 9:45pm. Most people stay behind to chat afterwards.

We meet on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Monday evening of the month, bank holidays excluded.
Our next meetings are on July 6th and 20th. We also have a Sunday early evening picnic on 19 July in a park in Harrow.

If you are a member of Harrovians and would like a speech or evaluator role, please login to Duty Roster or contact our VPE.

For general information, please contact webmaster Warren Sheng, wenterprise AT gmail.com/ 020-8202 9584 evenings & weekends.

Guests are ALWAYS VERY welcome and there is no charge. In fact, guests are very welcome to bring a guest! You will find Harrovians very encouraging and supportive, so please do come along and see what it's all about. If you then join the club, it will really make a difference to your life and to your ability to speak confidently in public.

The new club committee now taking over comprises:

President: Tony Dryer

VPE: Apollo Kabuye Kawoya, assisted by David Wilkins

VPM: Lorna Burns

Treasurer: Amit Mohanlal

VPPR: Ruth Vishnick

Secretary: Hakeem Otulana

SAA: Hakeem Otulana and Silas Mante

Mentoring Co-ordinator: Warren Sheng

Webmaster: Warren Sheng/ Silas Mante (now undergoing rigorous training)

Beloved Highly Esteemed Immediate Past President: Alan McMahon

Please support them in their hard work behind the scenes. (That means helping them from time to time.)

This page was last updated on 29 Jun 09 at 11:52pm.

This photo was taken in Dec08 in our pub meeting room. Please excuse the coats hanging on the backs of chairs.

The photo, taken in the summer of 2007, shows:
From left to right, John Cyriac (ex-President), Anthony McGuigan (a former President), Indra Sikdar (ex-VPE, ex-Area Governor), Bal Garcha (ex-VPE), Kayode Olatuyi (co-founder of club), Naran Patel (ex-SAA), Alex Bustamante (SAA), Mandip Sohal (Treasurer AND VPE!), Alan McMahon (new President), Angela Lansbury (Secretary), Tony Lazar (ex President), Saley Ahmed. Photo taken by Warren Sheng (ex-VPE, Webmaster, in charge of dry humour). See the other group photo in Main Menu, Contact Us.
Note: Warren: The photos never show everyone. It's just too hard to do the shot indoors, where we meet, unless I invest in an expensive dSLR with a prime wide angle... Typically, our meeting has 15 - 25 attendees including a lot more women than appear in this shot!