Our ‘Public Speaking’ competitions help members to gain confidence at presenting and talking to large audiences and groups of people. The competitions help members gain debating skills as they voice their opinions and speak confiedently.
Winners from the various competitions have the opportunity of going forward to represent Radnor at a Wales and National level.
The number of public speaking competitions is rather large so here in Radnor we hold 2 days and 1 evening of the competitions. These can include Junior Reading, Junior Public Speaking, Junior & Senior Member of the Year, Situation Vaccant, The Brainstrust competition, Call my Bluff, On the News, Just a Minute, Senior After Dinner Speaking and Senior Debating.
This year Radnor YFC held the Junior Reading Competition, Junior & Senior Member of the Year and Situations Vaccant at the Strand Hall, Builth Wells on the 5th of November. There was a fantastic entry in the Junior Reading where 12 teams competed.
The winners of the Junior Reading were Penybont YFC, Second place went to Cantal YFC and equal Third went to Presteigne YFC and Dolau YFC. The best reader went to Harrison Powell of Llanbadarn Fynydd.
Junior Member of the Year went to Laura Bevan of Cantal YFC and Senior Member of the Year went to James Griffiths of Penybont YFC. To round up the day of competitions, Sally Griffiths of Presteigne YFC took home the Situations Vaccant title!
The next weekend of competitions soon followed and on Friday 11th of November we kicked off with the Senior Brainstrust Competition held at the Lion Royal in Rhayader. Howey YFC came away with the winning shield and Ben Chilman of Presteigne YFC collected the trophy for best individual speaker.
Saturday 12th saw competitiors compete in the Junior Public Speaking and the Intermidiate Call my Bluff. The Junior Public speaking was won by Cantal YFC, with two teams from Dolau YFC picking up second and third place. The Call my Bluff competition was won by Howey YFC, with best individual going to Tori Davies.
The overall winners of The 2022 Public Speaking Competitions went to Howey YFC. Second place went to Penybont YFC and Presteigne YFC came away with Third. The federation and members would like to Thank our Main Sponsors, Milwyn Jenkins & Jenkins and all the Judges, stewards, coaches, parents and supporters for making the weekends of events very successful.
More photos of the weekend can be found in the Gallery.
