Toastmaster Paul Deacon 2.92

In Toastmaster terms, Paul Deacon is unique. In a career lasting 25 years, no other Toastmaster has travelled so far and dealt with such a variety of work for so many dignitaries and celebrities or visited so many prestigious venues and used as many languages as him. He has officiated at many events for British and international clients ranging from English, Jewish and Asian weddings to dinners and awards ceremonies from Los Angeles to Hong Kong and Singapore.

In Britain a red-coated Toastmaster is more an event organiser than a speech maker. Essentially, their job is to be an event’s organisational heartbeat. They are hired to make things run like clockwork and they must appear to do this effortlessly. Their duties can vary a lot from event to event; at times their priority will be ensuring that the flowers, cake and chefs are ready at a wedding reception, at other times their primary duty will be introducing guest speakers and every now and then they might have to do a bit of crisis management.

One of Paul’s first jobs was a fund raising dinner at Brooklands museum in Weybridge with HRH Prince Michael of Kent, several lords and 600 guests in attendance. He also co-ordinated the millennium night celebrations in Monaco in the presence of HSH Prince Albert of Monaco and has attended other dinners in Monaco with HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. He has worked with members of the Royal Family at events and yet, he still looks after every client in the same calm and efficient way as if they too were royalty.

He is a highly experienced Toastmaster and is regularly seen at weddings of all faiths both at civil ceremonies and after marriages in churches, temples and synagogues. His schedule of events continues to involve him with weddings of many faiths, dinners, Masonic Ladies Festivals and bar mitzvahs. He has helped to raise thousands of pounds at charity events for HEART UK, the National Society for Epilepsy, UNICEF, and Children in Crisis. He deals with celebrities and dignitaries in the West End, and the Guildhall, Mansion House and Livery Halls in the City of London as well as locally. In the UK, his work can take him from town halls to stately homes and Park Lane hotels and from school gyms or marquees to the House of Commons. He is the only British MC to have worked in British, French, German, Japanese and Singaporean embassies and consulates both here and abroad and he is ready to guide guests in European and Asian languages.

Paul, 56, started his career as a Toastmaster as it let him combine previous hobbies of acting and running a Youth Drama Group and a solo chorister. In 2013 he was President of the National Association of Toastmasters. The NAT, founded in 1954, upholds and develops the standards of the profession. It is managed by an annually elected Executive Committee. Membership includes toastmasters throughout the United Kingdom. Their services are available for any occasion from weddings, receptions and dinner dances to opening ceremonies, conferences and charity balls.

If you need the services of a qualified, experienced and reliable Toastmaster please call Paul on 07590 913444