Category Archives: GSO

Officer Changes, Meeting Updates & The Pink Form

For the Website and WTF

Meeting Secretaries or GSRs have an obligation to keep DCIG and GSO up to date with any changes to their meeting times, venue , access, chits and zoom details, where this latter is applicable and don’t forget contact names and phone numbers.  Thankfully,  this generally happens but occasional communication breaks down and this is captured when someone rolls up to a meeting that has changed its time or venue or login or has no wheelchair access etc.  The consequence  for the visitor is plain for all to see – no meeting that day. So please, please keep those meeting updates coming: ecomm.devonc@aamail.org

For the National Website – The Pink Form

Now when you supply the updates to DCIG please please use the National Website Pink Form which will ensure that your meeting details are correct on alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk. The link gets you to the online form and  it takes 10 minutes to enter the update.  You will need all the group information from the Members (Confidential) WTF. Plus names and phones for Secretary, Treasure and GSR plus a postal address for mail.  Only the groups have all of this and it is their responsibility to provide it via the Pink Form.

Intergroup Officer Changes and Registartion

For Intergroup Office changes and Registration please us the Officer Registration Form available on this link . Please forward the form as directed.

Latest AA Service News

Service News Autumn Edition 2025

GSO York produce a quarterly Service News which is packed full of great stuff that they do in conjunction with AA groups and other organisations to carry the message and support the work of recovery from alcohol addiction.  Here is the latest Edition:

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GSO Reports, Service News, Flyers & Literature Order Form

Annual Report

For the 2024 Annual Report of the General Service Board please click here:

Latest Service News

AA Service News, Autumn 2025, please click here:
PI Newsletter, Autumn 2025, please click here:
YP Newsletter, Autumn 2025, please click here:

Handbooks

AA Service Handbook 2024, please click here:  

AA Structure Handbook 2024, please click here:  

Flyers

Young Persons Online Workshops 2025, please click here:  

Literature Order Form

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85 Years of Helping Alcoholics

How it all began and AA.ORG

AA is a world wide movement of many tens of thousands of local groups of recovering alcoholics which began 85 years ago. In the intervening years the AA program has saved millions of alcoholic lives and prevented great damage to the lives of their families and the wider community. AA has its origins in a meeting between two old friends in New York towards the end of 1934. One was Bill W and the other was Ebby T. They both lived in New York and had been friends from school days in Vermont. They were also long time drinking partners. At that time, Bill had all but given up hope of freeing himself from alcohol when Ebby came to visit with a self evident message of hope and a sober life. Bill was amazed by his friend’s recovery story and his new sober state. Within days Bill had his last drink which was nothing short of a miracle, after years of fruitless attempts to stop. Six months later, in May of 1935 Bill was in Akron where, in order to save his hard won new sober state, he was asked to meet a fellow sufferer Dr Bob S. Thus, with that same message of hope and the prospect of a sober life, in early June of 1935 AA, got under way. The first AA group was in Akron, started by both men in 1935 . Bill W returned to New York to carry on his work in that city which is where AA’s world headquarters is based.

AA in the UK

Here in the UK our General Service Office (GSO) in York has a much fuller history of early AA and
the establishment of AA in the UK

The General Service Office and Website in New York

Today aa.org is the official website for the organisation in the US and provides a rich resource for the rest of AA around the world. For more history, information and help, just click the link: aa.org.

 

SHARE Magazine

SHARE Monthly Magazine for Alcoholics Anonymous

SHARE is the monthly magazine for Alcoholics Anonymous in England and Wales. It is fondly known as our “Meeting between Meetings”.
SHARE has held its issue price at £2 per copy (including postage). It is available for group or individual subscription
You can subscribe to SHARE from the AA GB General Service Office, PO Box 1. 10 Toft Green, York 7NJ (send a cheque payable to GSO), or email AAShare@gsogb.org.uk

To pay by bank transfer, contact carolinedavy@gsogb.org.uk, or buy SHARE from a group that subscribes.

Contribute
Just like membership of our wonderful Fellowship, you need not be a special type of alcoholic to write for share. No one can keep you out; you’re a member if you say you are. And if you are a member, newcomer or oldtimer, we need to hear your experience, strength and hope just like at any other meeting.

Spelling and grammar will all be amended if necessary. You can write just a few lines or more, up to about 1000 words max, but we cannot publish poetry or obituaries. Each issue of share will always feature that month’s corresponding Step and Tradition. In addition, we need your words on whatever is important in your sobriety! To help you, we have the following list of upcoming themes. But, as always, write from the heart.
Send your article at least two months before the relevant topic is due to appear. For example, Step or Tradition 10 (October) needs to be in by August 15th and so on. So put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard – help yourself and us. Send your contribution to:

The Editor,SHARE,General Service Office, PO BOX 1, 10 Toft Green, York,YO1 7NJ

You can also email articles to us at AAShare@gsogb.org.uk

If there are any members in the Devon Central Intergroup Area who require any assistance with ordering copies of SHARE Magazine, please let Share Magazine Officer (Lucy) know:  share.devonc@aamail.org