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Visitors:

If planning to visit the club, please complete this simple registration form.

Future programs:

See the programs for future meetings and notes from the Vice-President Education.

Minutes:

See the minutes of the last meeting.

Newsletter:

See the current issue of the Club newsletter, the "Parra-Natta".

See archive of older issues.

Assignment Guide:

See our online guide to
the performance of meeting assignments.

Club Blog:

To have an item posted to our Club Blog, send an email to the

Next Meeting

 

See Meeting Dates and Themes for this term.

Mission of our Club

We provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop communication and leadership skills, resulting in greater self-confidence and personal growth.

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

• Introduction to Toastmasters
• Introduction to our club

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 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 some special features

• 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.

• The Australasian Chairman

  The Australasian Chairman is a booklet published by the club for club members and general sale. It covers the principles and rules of meeting procedure as used in Australia and New Zealand. See The Australasian Chairman for details and purchasing information.

• 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 on 2nd December 2021, held on Zoom with 5 contestants.
1st Anu Vijayan, 2nd Vicki Sheehan, 3rd Tom Ware. Anu Vijayan won the Area 13 and Cumberland Division Contests and went on to win the District 90 Final.

Results of our annual Evaluation Contest on 20th January 2022, held on Zoom with 8 contestants.
1st Vicki Sheehan, 2nd David Griffiths, 3rd Christine Hunyh. David Griffiths won the Area 13 Contest on 20th February. with Vicki Sheehan 2nd.

Results of our annual Table Topics Contest on 3rd September 2022.
1st Anu Vijayan, 2nd Tony Gattari 3rd Rebecca Gattari. Anu Vijayan won the Area 13 contest on 26th November with Tony Gattari 2nd.

Results of our annual Humorous Speech Contest on 6th October 2022.
1st Anu Vijayan, 2nd Rob Tibbertsma, 3rd Eoin Gubbins. Anu Vijayan won the Area 13 contest on 26th November

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 Walkington, 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

• Site map

  See the site map for this website.

• Contact Us

  All the ways that you can Contact Us

• 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.

• Toastmasters in New South Wales

  See the Toastmasters NSW website for information on all the clubs in NSW and the ACT.