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Devon & Exeter

Welcome to the Devon and Exeter branch

The Branch has a thriving membership and contributes to the aims of the parent organisation in a number of ways. The focal point of our activities is a monthly social gathering for lunch or supper in the pleasant surroundings of the Exeter Golf & Country Club. Talks by eminent speakers accompany these fundraising events, and the profits subsidise local ESU programmes for young people. Details of recent and forthcoming events are listed below.

Schools in the district compete in the UK Public Speaking Competition, Performing Shakespeare and we have recently become involved in the Discover Your Voice programme, aimed at improving the communication skills of schoolchildren.

New members are always welcome and membership confers privileged use of facilities at the ESUs imposing HQ, Dartmouth House in London’s Mayfair.

For further details of upcoming events and dates for your diary – please contact our dining secretary- Sue Maunder – suemaunderesu@gmail.com – 07760888179

I look forward to welcoming you at your first event!

 

Upcoming events in Devon & Exeter

ESU Devon & Exeter Branch - October Luncheon Lecture Meeting

ESU Social
Devon & Exeter

‘Inn Signia’ – John Ericson, an erudite and entertaining speaker will be lecturing on the artwork and stories behind peculiar pub names. For tickets, please contact the Dining Secretary, Sue Maunder, on suemaunderesu@gmail.com.

Exeter branch event speakers

The Exeter branch prides itself on the quality of the speakers that we are able to attract to present at our events.

During the past few years, we have had a succession of well-known and outstanding speakers including: Sir Anthony Acland, Kate Adie, Kirstie Allsopp, Lord Paddy Ashdown, Lord (Robin) Butler, Baroness Butler-Sloss, Ben Bradshaw, Martin Bell, The Countess of Carnarvon, Dr Jung Chang, The Countess of Devon, David Crystal, Sir Richard Dearlove, Jonathan Dimbleby, Jonathan Fenby, Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Richard Holmes, Sir Bernard Ingham, Stanley Johnson, Satish Kumar, Sue Lawley, Fiona MacCarthy, Hilary Mantell, Sue MacGregor, Sir Christopher Meyer, Bel Mooney, Michael Morpurgo, Ian Mortimer, John Nettles, Matthew Parris, Baroness Butler-Sloss, Vicky Price, Helen Rappaport, Angela Rippon, David Starkey, Sir Tim Smit, Professor Sir Steve Smith, Alice Thomson, Hugo Vickers, Alexander Waugh, Ann Widdecombe.

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Young pupils posing at the finals of ESU-Churchhill Public Speaking Competition

Devon & Exeter Branch final of the ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Competition

Devon & Exeter Branch final of the ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Competition.
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Devon & Exeter educational programmes: Public speaking & Discover Your Voice

The Devon & Exeter branch held the 2017 Public Speaking Competition and and Discover Your Voice workshops.
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Expanding into the south-west

Devon and Exeter branch make huge strides with their oracy work.
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Tales from Thailand

Gap-year student sponsored by the Devon & Exeter branch reports on her year teaching English to primary age children.
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Exeter centenary dinner

Exeter’s black-tie dinner celebration of the ESU’s centenary focused heavily on the educational aims and transformational potential of the ESU’s core programmes.
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Exeter lunch with James Levelle

The guest speaker at the Exeter branch April Meeting was James Levelle, adventurer and filmmaker. His talk was entitled “Free Ride to South America".  The Times said of James that “He’s nice but mad”.

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