Improve your speaking — and your confidence
Onehunga Toastmasters is a chance to get better at speaking, and at handling the situations where speaking matters.
You learn to speak in public in a supportive room, at your own pace, with people who want you to do well.
Where you will notice the difference
At work
Clearer communication with your manager, your team and your colleagues. You will learn to run a meeting properly and to listen well.
As a leader
Real opportunities to practise leadership, planning and organising — by running meetings and taking on club roles.
At home
Conversations with family and friends become easier, more enjoyable and more rewarding.
In your community
You get better at getting things said, planned and done.
What you will actually get to do
- Practise the techniques of effective public speaking.
- Prepare and deliver speeches on subjects you choose.
- Give impromptu talks on the spot — the skill most people want most.
- Build speaking experience aimed at your own career needs.
- Sharpen your listening and evaluation skills.
- Learn proper meeting and parliamentary procedure.
- Chair a meeting.
- Build genuine leadership and management experience.
- Develop the confidence to speak to one person or one thousand.
What does it cost?
$180
per six-month term
that is $30 a month
$50
joining fee
once, ever
So your first six months is $230, and every six months after that is $180.
The $180 is all-inclusive. It covers your Toastmasters International dues, your access to the Pathways learning programme, and the club’s own running costs — room hire, refreshments, printing and administration. There is nothing else to pay during the term. Onehunga Toastmasters is a non-profit and nobody here is paid.
Our terms run 1 October – 31 March, and 1 April – 30 September.
You do not have to wait for a new term to start. If you join partway through one, we pro-rate it — you pay only for the months you actually get, then pick up the full term from the next start date.
Why not just do a short course?
A quick search will turn up plenty of short courses in public speaking, confidence or presentation skills — usually for far more money. The difference is that a course ends. Toastmasters keeps going, so the learning is continuous and it actually sticks. That is what produces real change: growing self-awareness, and confidence that holds up under pressure.
What do I get for my membership fee?
- Full access to Pathways, the Toastmasters education programme — you pick a path that matches what you want to improve, and work through its five levels at your own pace.
- Support from the whole club. Members will help you plan a speech, talk through Pathways, or answer anything you are unsure of — you only have to ask.
- Every meeting included. There is no extra charge to turn up, speak, or take a role.
- Toastmaster magazine, the official publication of Toastmasters International.
- Lifetime registration with Toastmasters International.
Your first speech is the Ice Breaker — a short talk about yourself, and the first speech of Level 1. After that you set your own pace, and the club supports you along the way: members are happy to help you prepare, and every speech you give gets structured feedback.
Come along to a meeting and see for yourself. Nothing to prepare, nothing to pay, no need to book.