• About Wimbledon Speakers Club


    Formed in 1998 Wimbledon has established itself as a leading force both locally and nationally amongst Speakers Clubs.

    Our aim is to help members develop both confidence and skills in a variety of forms of verbal communication and public speaking.

    A typical Programme covers; Improvised Speaking; Prepared Speeches & Evaluation of Speeches. Occasionally there may be other word games, debates or lighter-hearted entertainment included.

    Our meetings are held on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month at the William Morris Rooms (see venue) - 7.30pm start.

    We welcome visitors who just want to drop in and see how they can best benefit.

    Wimbledon Speakers is not affiliated with any political or religious organisation. Our membership reflects a complete range of age gender and ability. To get in contact with us, click on Contact page above...

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    July Meetings

    Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

    Breaking with tradition (slightly) we will be having 2 meetings in July, 9 and 23 to maximise speaking opportunities for all our new speakers. After a break in August, the next meeting will be September 10.

    Wimbledon 2008 Dinner

    Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

    The Annual Dinner will be held on June 27th at the Antoinnette Hotel, Wimbledon.
    Guest speakers will be Suzanne OBrien and Sean Birch and a great turnout is expected. This is the premier networking event and celebration in the South East and is always eagerly anticipated. See you there!

    Area Speech Contest

    Saturday, February 16th, 2008

    On Saturday 23rd February at 2pm.
    Everybody is invited to the annual celebration of the very best of London area public speaking.
    There will be 3 competitions, prepared speeches, impromptu speaking, and speech evaluation featuring some of the best speakers in the whole of London.
    Entry is free and this is a wonderful opportunity to learn from the […]

    Next Meetings

    Thursday, February 14th, 2008

    Our next  meetings will be….
    Saturday 23rd February, William Morris House, Area AGM and Speech Contest 2pm.
    Wednesday 27th February, William Morris House, Club Evening, 7.30pm.
    Wednesday 12th March, William Morris House, Club Evening, 7.30pm.
    Wednesday 26th March, William Morris House, Club Evening, 7.30pm. 

    Next Meetings

    Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

    Our next Meetings will be on Wednesday January 9th and Wednesday January 23rd.

    Not Wimbledon again!?!

    Monday, November 5th, 2007

    Unfortunately, not according to the judges this time - West Kent took the honours in the South Eastern area ASC team speaking competition - despite a brilliant performance by the Wimbledon team.

    Your Most Friendly Committee

    Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

    After a successful first meeting, the new committee met at a local hostelry near to the William Morris Meeting Rooms in South Wimbledon.
    From left to right, we have Richard Burgess, Treasurer, Dominic Beecheno, Secretary, Chrissy Facon, Vice President and David Langworthy, President. The man behind the camera was Tim Watt, the Media and Publicity Guru […]

    We have a winner!

    Sunday, April 29th, 2007

    Michael Ronayne came first in the National Speech Competition, in a field of eight highly experienced and highly competent speakers.
    A superb performance even by Michael's standards.
    Well done Michael and at least there was one Chelsea supporter who was reasonably happy on Saturday evening…
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    Wimbledon's success in competition continues.

    Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

    Our three representatives at the London Area Finals on February 17th each won their respective contest and went on to represent London in the South East District Finals on March 11th in Maidstone.
    Well done to David Langworthy who won the London Area Topics; Katherine Inglis who won the London Area Evaluation contest and especially Michael […]

    Contest Winners

    Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

    The winners of the two competitions at the WSC meeting of the 24th January were:

    Evaluation winner - Katherine
    Topics - David Langworthy

    Judge - Richard Johnson (South Area President) 

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