There is no sign-up, no fee and no catch. Below is everything you might want to know before walking in.
When and where
Every Tuesday, 19:15 to 21:15. Registration opens at 19:00.
New Oriental, 3rd floor, Huarong Building, No. 178 Mintian Road, Futian District, Shenzhen (福田区华融大厦 3 楼新东方).
Take the metro to Futian Station and leave by Exit 3A. The building is a short walk from there.
What happens when you arrive
Someone from the officer team will be at the registration desk. Say you are a guest and they will find you a seat and explain the evening.
The meeting runs in English and follows a printed agenda. You will see prepared speeches, an impromptu speaking round called Table Topics, and evaluations of everything that happened.
About two thirds of the way through there is a guest sharing slot: each guest gets thirty seconds to say what they thought. You can take it or pass. Most people take it.
Joining, if you want to
There is no pressure to join, and no one will chase you. When you are ready, the club follows a simple path:
- Attend 3 meetings
- Speak 2 times, which can be Table Topics or a meeting role
- Submit 1 application
Membership costs ¥600 as a one-off registration fee, then ¥750 per half year. Most of that goes to Toastmasters International as your international membership.
Toastmasters International raised its own dues from US$60 to US$72 for each six-month period (its membership FAQ, read on 9 October 2026). That is US$12 more, about ¥85 at ¥7.1 to the dollar. The club's dues went up by ¥50; the club covers the rest itself.
Getting in touch
The simplest way is to turn up on a Tuesday and tell anyone in the room that it is your first time. Everyone here was a first-timer once, and someone will find you a seat and walk you through the evening. We have been doing this since 2003 and we will be there.
If you would like to ask something before you come, use the “Message/visit club” button on our club page at toastmasters.org.
If you would rather read first
The club has spent eleven years explaining itself on its own account: what every job in the room does, what a Timer actually watches for, and ten reasons not to join with an answer to each.
Guides the club wrote for itself →Seventeen pieces: what Toastmasters is, every job in the room, and whether to join.
Sense of Order
13 members ran the evening between them: Meeting Manager, Toastmaster of the Evening, General Evaluator, Table Topics Master, Table Topics Evaluator, Speech Evaluator (Rebecca), Speech Evaluator (Tommy), Timer, and more. None of it is anybody's permanent job.
