Steve Campion 
The semi-finals and finals of our District speech contests were held in Liverpool at the Come Together 2023 conference. We would like to congratulate all our competitors and celebrate the success of our winners!
District 71 Parliamentarian, Larry Lyons, recently created a training course about Parliamentary Procedure that was well attended and received great praise. A number of participants have created videos about their experience. In addition, Toastmasters International Director, Jean Gamester DTM, was the guest of honour at the final session of the Parliamentary Procedure training on 6th December. International Director Jean was fulsome … Read more
Congratulations to Tina Stynes on completing Presentation Mastery Level 5
On 8th December 2022, Matt Kinsey, the President of Toastmasters International announced an exciting partnership with the Yoodli system. Here is the announcement: As you know, practice and feedback are at the heart of the Toastmasters learning experience. Building on that foundation, I am excited to share that Toastmasters Yoodli is now live! Alongside your … Read more
District 71 two contestants ruling for Autumn 2021 contests District 71 will run 4 contests this year: Humorous Speech Contest Table Topics Contest International Speech Contest Evaluation Speech Contest The Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests will run through to Division finals up to 30 November 2021. All contests will be run online. Speech Contest … Read more
On May 8th & 9th, speech contest winners from all of our Divisions competed to find out who would be our finalists at the District Conference. The standard of competition was extremely high, and sadly only the top three from each semi-final can go through to the final. Well done to all the participants and … Read more
Today is a day to celebrate! We are launching the new D71 website – Phase 1. The decision to build a new website was a strategic move, approved by the DLT, to meet the needs expressed by members. The team that delivered the project:Joan McGuire – External ConsultantGed ByrneSteve CampionElizabeth Jordan With input from the … Read more