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2010 Winner of the Dale Hartle Award for Best New Zealand Club Website

Welcome to Rangiora Toastmasters

Thank you for visiting our site.

Come and join us, we meet every Tuesday evening from 7:30pm to 9:00pm at:
McAlpines Pavilion, Mainpower Oval, Upstairs Meeting Room, Coldstream Road, Rangiora, Canterbury.

As Toastmasters we are dedicated to providing a mutually supportive environment in which people feel safe to take the steps needed to improve their communication and leadership skills.

Recent Posts

14 June Meeting Cancelled

Unfortunately we've had another round of aftershocks today - the biggest being magnitude 6.0.  Some were keen to continue with a meeting but a large enough number wanted time out to recover from these latest setbacks.  The meeting is therefore off...

7 June Meeting

A couple of people away for this meeting but that didn't dampen the enthusiasm.  Jodi was her usual bright and sparkly self as she opened the meeting and Michelle did a great job as toastmaster. Mark gave his 5th speech from the competent com...

31 May Meeting

Something a bit different this week - a joint meeting with Kaiapoi club.  It's always great to see how another club operates.  Speaking in front of some new faces is also a really valuable exercice. We were well represented by Daniel, B'Ethel...

24 May Meeting

A warm welcome to our newest member Brian . . and what an exceptional job he did as the timer for the night.  Well done Brian.  Welcome also to Rob who attended as a guest. Jodi was our toastmaster and kept good control of the meeting with in...

17 May Meeting

What a great meeting - 4 new members!  Sadly this was tempered by Debs announcement before the meeting that she is taking indefinite time away.  However we were also delighted to welcome Brian as a further guest and look forward to seeing him agai...

Joint Meeting with Kaiapoi Toastmasters on 31 May

On 31 May our meeting will be held jointly with Kaiapoi Toastmasters at 7.30pm in their venue http://www.ktm.org.nz/detailed_where3.htm  Our members will be required to fill some of the meeting roles but these are yet to be advised.

Different venue for 17th of May

*17th of May Venue change*  Due to our venue being previously booked out we will be meeting at Robbies Bar and Bistro on the main street of Rangiora. *17th May Venue Change*

10th May AGM minutes

Rangiora Toastmasters Club 9337 - Area G2 - District 72  Annual General Meeting minutes Tuesday 10 May 2011    Introduction and Welcome   -  B’Ethel opened the AGM and read through the evenings agenda      2...

26th April

 Jodi did an SAA welcome and then stepped up for her second time as Toastmaster and looked awfully comfortable in that position...again!  Paul did a quick, little impromptu introduction for B'Ethel's speech. Followed of course by B'Ethel's sp...

19th April

 This week we had a club brainstorming session!  Our special guest and brainstorming helper was Nigel Powell the District 72 Public Relations Officer. Nigel had our brains ticking over and blowing off dust within seconds. We now feel lik...

Results of the Area Contest - 24 March 2011

The Area G2 Contest for the International and Evaluation was held on Thursday 24 March in Christchurch. The standard was extremely high. Unfortunately B'Ethel Williams didn't place for the International Contest but gave a great and compelling spee...

International and Evaluation Contest held on 22 March 2011

Our contest was postponed due to the earthquake on 22 February, but not to be deterred the contest was held on 22 March with two contestants for the International contest, B'Ethel Williams and Debs Taylor-Hayhurst. B'Ethel won and will go on to re...

Weekly Report Meeting No 836 - 29 March 2011

The meeting kicked off to a fine start with Debs talking about daylight saving. Jodi ran the evening as Toastmaster, the first time she has undertaken this role and did really well. Debs was the grammarian with the word of the evening being anomal...

Meetings Postponed due to Canterbury Quake

Due to the Canterbury Quake of February 22nd the meeting was cancelled. Owing to the severity of this tragic disaster there will not be a meeting next Tuesday 28th. Meetings will resume from 1 March 2011.

Club Evaluation and International Speech Contests 2011

Rangiora Toastmasters are holding their Evaluation and International Speech Contests on Tuesday 22 February - judges are being sought so if anyone fancies being a judge all volunteers are welcome. Guests are still welcome to come along and watch s...

Weekly Report - Meeting No 829 - 8 February 2011

Debs opened the meeting by telling us about all the strange weather we had been having which has been caused by the cyclones hitting Australia. B’Ethel led the evening as Toastmaster introducing the Party Theme for the evening. Members wore party ...

Weekly Report – Tuesday 1 February – Meeting 828

B’Ethel opened the evening as SAA telling us about a number of ‘What Ifs’ which got us all thinking and made us laugh. Debs was Toastmaster and informed members the ‘theme’ for the evening was to tell everyone about the roles that were being perfo...

Tuesday 25 January 2011 - Meeting 827

The meeting started a little late due to access to the building but that didn’t deter everyone. The meeting kicked off with Debs opening the evening as Sergeant at Arms talking about the small earthquake in Scotland in the west highland where ther...

Tuesday 18 January 2011

The first evening in our new premises and the first evening for 2011 was ‘kicked off’ by Debs as Sergeant at Arms talking about ‘What Are Grandparents’. This was followed by Stuart leading the evening as Toastmaster welcoming Beryl our guest for t...

New Year and New Premises - 18 January 2011

Happy New Year to all our members and members to be. Our first meeting for 2011 will be held on 18 January at the new premises at the usual time of 7.30 pm. Look forward to seeing you all there then.