Twenty-One Years of the Club Programme

Toastmasters scores every club against ten goals a year. Here is how this one did for twenty-one years running, including the two years it did not.

Toastmasters runs the same scorecard for every club in the world. Ten goals a year, counted from July to June, and an award at the end depending on how many you met.

The club has met at least seven of the ten in nineteen of the twenty-one years on record. That is the boring part. The interesting part is the two years it did not, and what the membership column does either side of them.

2011–12. Six goals met, no award, and membership at the end of the year down to ten. That is the lowest figure in the whole record, and the year before it the club had twenty-one members. Whatever happened, the recovery was immediate: nine goals the following year and back to sixteen members.

2019–20. One goal met out of ten. The club kept meeting, and membership actually finished the year higher than it started, but almost nothing else could be counted.

2015 to 2018 is the other end of it. Membership went 28, 55, 59, then fell back to 37, while the club hit all ten goals four years running. Growing that fast and keeping the score perfect at the same time is unusual.

Every year on record
YearGoals met, out of tenMembers
2004-05 6 Select Distinguished 20
2005-06 6 Select Distinguished 25
2006-07 6 Select Distinguished 21
2007-08 9 President's Distinguished 20
2008-09 9 President's Distinguished 23
2009-10 7 Select Distinguished 20
2010-11 8 Select Distinguished 21
2011-12 6 no award 10
2012-13 9 President's Distinguished 16
2013-14 9 President's Distinguished 22
2014-15 8 Select Distinguished 28
2015-16 10 President's Distinguished 55
2016-17 10 President's Distinguished 59
2017-18 10 President's Distinguished 37
2018-19 10 President's Distinguished 32
2019-20 1 no award 38
2020-21 9 President's Distinguished 51
2021-22 7 Select Distinguished 39
2022-23 10 President's Distinguished 32
2023-24 10 President's Distinguished 28
2024-25 10 President's Distinguished 32
President's Distinguished · 12 years Select Distinguished · 7 years No award · 2 years Peak membership 59 in 2016-17; low of 10 in 2011-12.