Edinburgh Speakers Club

Member of the Association of Speakers Clubs (ASC)

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The Edinburgh SC is part of the Association of Speakers Clubs, a national organisation which has clubs across Britain. The club is part of the Edinburgh Area and the Central District. Members of the Edinburgh SC receive benefits from the ASC including:

A copy of the Speakers Guide
Quarterly "The Speaker" magazine
National competitions
Seminars and other materials provided by National Training Officer
Speaker of the Year
National Conference
and lots more

The Speakers Guide

The Speakers Guide (also known as the Speakers Manual) lays out the ASC method of learning to speak with confidence it sets out the ten assignments members must complete satisfactorily in order to gain the ASC Certificate of Achievement:

B1: Making a Start
B2: Mean What You Say
B3: Speech Construction
B4: Use of Gestures
B5: Use of Voice
B6: Vocabulary and Word Pictures
B7: The Use of Notes
B8: Use of Humour
B9: Audience Rapport
B10: The Masterpiece

After completing these assignments members may if they wish go on to ten advanced assignements which include the used of visual aids, lecturing, business presentations and after dinner speaking. The guide also gives advice on topics (impromptu speaking), chairmanship and the conduct of meetings. It is the basis of the work of the club and gives members advice on the full range of speaking activities both within the club and outwith.

National Competitions

Each year the ASC organises national competitions in speaking, evaluation and topics (imprompu speaking). Details on the formats of these competitions can be found here.

Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Final
Club	Area	District	National
Edinburgh SC	Edinburgh Area	Central District

Speaker of the Year 2010

Each year the ASC awards the Speaker of the Year and hosts a formal dinner to raise money for the winner's chosen charity. This years Speaker of the Year is Nick Owen.
Nick Owen is currently the main presenter on the regional news programme BBC Midlands Today. Nick has worked in regional and national TV since the late Seventies. He came to national prominence in 1983 as one of the first faces to appear on breakfast television in Britain.Nick moved to BBC One to co-present the popular Good Morning with Anne and Nick from 1992 until May 1996 – a total of 600 programmes.In 2006, he was awarded the Baird Medal by the Royal Television Society.

ASC SOY 2010 presentation to be made to Nick in Birmingham:-
Date: Saturday 6th November @ 7.00 for 7.30pm
Venue: Thistle Hotel, Birmingham Dinner tickets: £30
Bed & full English breakfast: £69 per double room

Nick’s chosen charity for 2010 is Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice in Selly Oak
The hospice cares for over 1,000 people each year suffering from life-limiting illnesses such as Cancer, Motor Neurone Disease and Multiple Sclerosis and aims to give people the best possible quality of life for whatever time remains to them.

Further details available from Hilary - hilary.davis@tesco.net

National Conference 2011

Meeting Dates

Wednesday 19th January 2011 -
Club Competitions

Wednesday 2nd February 2011 - Normal Meeting

Wednesday 16th February 2011 - Normal Meeting

Wednesday 2nd March 2011 -
Normal Meeting

Wednesday 16th March 2011 -
Normal Meeting

Wednesday 30th March 2011 -
Normal Meeting

Wednesday 13th April 2011 -
Annual General Meeting

Wednesday 27th April 2011 -
Normal Meeting

Wednesday 11th May 2011 -
Normal Meeting

Wednesday 25th May 2011 -
Normal Meeting