Charity Night Begins at Grove House

West Herts Speakers Club first charity night was a huge success, with five Table Topics on the subject of giving,  or not,  to charity, and a well-researched and inspiring speech about Grove House Hospice and Iain Rennie Hospice Care.

We continue to welcome new members, with Audree Fletcher signing up. Audree had visited the club before as a guest, and after she filled in her application form she jokingly said she’d decide whether or not to join if the evening was good enough. Thankfully, the evening got her seal of approval and she was welcomed into the Club.  

We also celebrated  a Best Speaker of the Night winner with recent new member Shola Ayeni, whose hilarious Icebreaker about her Nigerian culture had us all in stitches.

Meanwhile, fellow newcomer Jenny Bullen made her ‘stage debut’ with an accomplished impromptu Table Topic. We look forward to Jenny’s Icebreaker very soon.

Thanks to the generosity of the members we raised a fantastic £155.10 for Grove House Hospice and Iain Rennie Hospice Care. We were joined by Doreen Beattie, an ambassador and volunteer from the charity, who said “It was a real pleasure to meet the West Herts Speakers Club members and I very much enjoyed their empathetic and inspiring talk on Grove House. It was good to be able to talk to so many people in the interval and to tell them more about the work of Grove House. We extend our thanks to all the members for their generosity and hospitality, and for helping to ‘fly the flag’ for Grove House.”

Best Evaluator of the night was Colin Donald and Best Table Topics Speaker was Tom Milliken.

Come and join us at our last meeting of the year on December 14th and help us to make it a very Festive occasion.