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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:

Download AA Service News

Online Meeting List for UK and Europe

The national Website Meeting Finder maintains a list of almost 400 online meetings  which are independent of any intergroup or region.  About half in the UK and the rest in  most West European Countries.  To access the list use this link BUT before clicking the link read the note below:

https://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/AA-Meetings/Find-a-Meeting/

When you get to the webpage you have select the ‘Online’ Intergroup from the drop down list – and its right at the end on the long list.  Then click the search button above.   If you add a Day of the Week , you will get a sub list of all online meetings for the selected day (Sunday to Saturday).  Be aware if your meeting is tagged for an intergroup it will not appear on this Online List which is specifically for meetings with no intergroup or regional affiliations. Play with the selections –  it is worth the effort but don’t use the Town or Postcode.

 

Finding Your Meeting Registration Number (UID)

The DCIG Website List UIDs for Most Meetings

Use the Tag Box and select your meeting day and check for the UID after the Postcode or Zoom link.

You can then check your UID against the current GSO information via this  PDF link:  aa-meetings-all-2025-10-25

Using the link  ‘Download Meeting List. You will have a table 7 rows by 3 columns with the UID at the foot of the meeting block.  UIDs are 3 or 4 digits except for Online Meetings which begin with ‘ON’ then 3 digits.

Please note that the meeting list is in alphabetic order so not in the WTF Day-of-the-Week order. There are presently 40 meetings on this list.  The Exeter Saturday evening meeting closed on 26th July 2025 and the Thursday Polish Meeting is on a separate Intergroup for Polish speaking meetings, making a total of 39 meetings.

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

AA Literature Order Form:  

75 Years Of AA in Great Britain Video

For the 75th anniversary of AA in the UK, our General Service Office in York has produced a wonderful History of AA in the UK. The video opens with these words:

“For 75 Years AA GB has been working in these islands. Right from the start, they have been committed to supporting people in every walk of life, in every environment, in every place because the disease of alcoholism knows no frontiers, it knows no boundaries.  And over those 75 years AA GB has demonstrated time and time again that wherever it is needed it will go.”

Video Link

It can be accessed via the attached link:  75 Years of AA GB

 

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.