Welcome to Parramatta Toastmasters Club
Parramatta Toastmasters Club is one of the largest and most successful Toastmasters Clubs in the world. The club meets in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia to provide training in public speaking and communication and leadership skills.
Parramatta Toastmasters Club has a membership of over 50 and meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month in Parramatta. To find out more about us, see
Where and when we meet
See all the details of where and when we meet and how to get there.
Short Courses
Parramatta Toastmasters Club runs four 6 week Speechcraft programs each year. These are confidence building introductions to public speaking. The club has a long tradition with Speechcraft which is used
- Firstly as a way to introduce people to Toastmasters
- Then, by having them help run courses, as a way of having newer members learn our culture of "Helping people, help themselves develop the skills to help other people."
In this way we have established a long term culture of developing leaders from those who join us, leaders who have gone on to serve Toastmasters and the community. Read all about Speechcraft
Special Features
This website is famous in the Toastmasters world for two special features
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Our online Guide to Assignments
These are a great help to newer members in learning how to present assignments both with the standard of excellence we expect and within the culture of our club meetings. See the index to our Guide to Assignments.
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Our Speech Writing Resources and Library
Put together for over a decade, our index of speech writing resources harnesses the resources of the internet to help people research and develop speeches and to add the right humour or quotation. See our index of Speech Writing Resources
Latest News
Results of our annual International Speech Contest with 8 entrants
on 6th December.
1st Vicki Sheehan, 2nd Matt Tonkiss, 3rd Anu Vijayan. Pictures on
our Facebook page.
Results of our annual Evaluation Contest with 12 entrants on
24th January.
1st Vicki Sheehan, 2nd Ron Marriott 3rd Michael Fong. Pictures on
our Facebook page.
Vicki Sheehan won the Area 13 International Speech Contest on 23rd February and, was 2nd in the Western Division Contest on Saturday 30th March.
Our 50th anniversary meeting was held on Thursday, 15th September 2016 and it was a magnificent occasion with over 130 present. We had 2 special guests come to Sydney for the event, being Mike Storkey DTM, the President of Toastmasters International and Russ Walkington DTM, the founder of our club when TCA President. Below is a photo of the members present. There are many more photos on our Facebook page.
You can also see videos of the Parade of Past Presidents at the function and of keynote speeches by Russ Walkiington, Michael Said, Gary Wilson and Mike Storkey on our YouTube channel.
Toastmasters brand photo
Some of our members demonstrated the club's commitment to the new Toastmasters branding by taking a photo as part of the Toastmasters International brand competition. With the photo below Parramatta Toastmasters Club became the June 2014 and final winner of the "Toastmasters Clubs: Show Off Your Brand!" contest!
Also note
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Site map
See the site map for this website.
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Contact Us
All the ways that you can Contact Us
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Other Toastmasters Clubs in Parramatta
Note that there are many other Toastmasters clubs meeting in Parramatta. Details of these clubs can be seen here. You can click on Search Options in that page to narrow the search by meeting day of the week and meeting time (AM or PM).
One of these clubs is one for experienced Toastmasters that is closely associated with Parramatta Toastmasters Club. This is Western Gourmet Toastmasters Club which holds monthly themed dinner meetings. For more details, see the Western Gourmet Toastmasters Club website.
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Toastmasters in New South Wales
See the Toastmasters NSW website for information on all the clubs in NSW and the ACT.