What are the Costs?

Cost of Membership to Blackburn Castle SC

The cost varies from club to club. However it is usually less than the price of a meal for two in a restaurant. The annual subscription to Blackburn Castle SC is £30.00  A Speakers Guidel with useful information and training materials stretching to over 150 pages is available, at a cost of £12.00. There are 17 meetings a year, with the last meeting being the Annual General meeting.

You can get experience of competing at club, district, area and national levels.

Lastly, you will find it hard to get better fun and entertainment.

Timescale

To get to masterpiece level you should assume that you will take about two seasons.

However you will become an accomplished speaker earlier than this. You are the main determinant of the rate of your progress.

The Blackburn Castle Speakers Club Season

The club starts off the years programme on the 1st September 2008 and goes through until 11th May 2009. There is no better time to join except now. You start your own programme and you dictate the speed of your development. You work to the programme laid out in the Speakers Guidel. There is no club curriculum timescale, only your own personal one. Come along to the first or subsequent meetings for a trial period. You will always be made most welcome.

This system of development works well as it means that many members are at different levels within the education programme, making evenings more interesting and allowing newer members to get a glimpse at what is to come.