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LATEST WTF 2025 Q4 Edition

The Newcomers Public Edition

Both  editions of  the WTF  (Where To Find an AA meeting) were sent to the printers in time for  the Q4 2025 Intergroup Meeting on Sunday 16th of November at:

Park Life Centre,
Whipton Lane, Heavitree, Exeter EX1 3DN

https://parklifeheavitree.org.uk

The current revision date is now 4/12/25  The public edition is available now, as a pdf download: On This Link.  Please Note that the revision date of the download may be later than the print run date.

The revision date above indicates that all meetings changes received in the EComm email (ecomm.devonc@aamail.org) by that date have been applied to the online WTF.  These may not all be reflected in the printed WTF as each print run is confirmed in advance of the quarterly DCIG meetings.

The Members  Edition PDF

The Members (Confidential) PDF Edition is also kept up to date and available on request by email.  Just email your request to the EComm email:  (ecomm.devonc@aamail.org)

Continuous Updates

These PDF copies are continuously updated as changes are sent to the EComm email. So, downloading the Public Copy from the website or requesting the Members Copy and printing it or keeping it on your phone will give you the latest WTF meeting details.

Meeting Summary

In both WTF editions, there is a separate section for Zooms. This Online section  list both Zoom meetings and the Zoom details for any Hybrid meetings. Currently, we have 7 Online Meetings (2 Hybrids and 5 Zooms). There are 37 traditional meetings. So, we have a total of 37 (Trads and Hybrids) plus 5 Zoom only, for a total of 42 meetings.

Print Your Own Copy or Keep it on your Mobile

The downloadable pdf is a colour edition but will print very well in black and white. If you have a printer which can print on both sides, you can make a very decent WTF either in colour or B&W.  This PDF can also be kept on a mobile and use the mobile ‘zoom in’ to read it.

See Link for ‘How-To’.

 

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.

The Online Big Book

View on your Phone, Tablet or PC

If you are new to AA or are  searching for the answers to a ‘drinking problem’,  the link below is to an online version of our AA ‘Big Book’ which has all the answers we need and you can carry it around in your pocket. Read it anywhere you have a spare moment.  Great for long journeys on trains, planes, boats and waiting rooms. If you have headphones,  you can listen to  or watch it being read.

https://www.aa.org/the-big-book

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.

Print your own WTF (meeting finder)

The up-to-date anonymous version of the WTF (Where-To-Find a meeting) is available now as a pdf download.  The latest revision date is given underneath the Quarter Months. Besides printing in colour it also looks very nice in Black and White.  So, if you have double sided printer, you can print off small batches of foldable WTFs on a single A4 page. Don’t worry if your printer does not do double sided printing.  You can still print the WTF on two pages. 

How to Print

  1. Select Print – then:
  2. Select double sided if you plan to do this.
  3. Try Black and White. (It’s very decent and useable and won’t eat up your colour cartridge.)
  4. And select Flip on Short Edge (so you have the front and back pages running across the print page)
  5. Select number of copies and Print

 

AND if you don’t have a printer

Just download the PDF to your phone.  The file is in zoomable directly on your phone and in colour.  It’s what I do, and it works well.

Our Website

News

About the site

As many will know, the old site was launched in May 2011 and after 10 years plus, it was much in need of a refresh both in ‘look and feel’ and technically.  Consequently, on March 10, 2022  we launched an all-new site which addresses both issues.  The new site is  much  newer technology which improves the  adding  and managing of content as well as keeping the site up to date and secure. We believe that most pages will be familiar but also updated with current links and up to date information wherever necessary. All of this ‘slow changing information’ is held in pages, accessed from the menu at the top of each page.  This also gives easy discovery for new visitors and new members. More frequent visitors, primarily engaged AA members, should find navigation, using the Tag Blocks, will give quicker and easier access to fast changing information on meetings and local AA news.

TAGS and Tag Blocks

This is a newer and highly effective way to navigate the site. Most pages will have a Tags Block  as you can see on the right (or below if you are using a phone or tablet).  All the meetings are accessible from the Days Tags at the start of the Tag Block.  These run form ‘1 Sun’ to ‘7 Sat’ and give you complete and fast access to all our meetings on any given day. The tags and categories which they hold will allow  you to find Meetings and News items with ease. So if you are looking for a traditional ( F2F) meeting you just click on the ‘Traditional’  tag and  wherever you are, you will end up on the Meetings and News page with a list of Traditional Meetings (including,  currently 2 Hybrids).  Now entering November 2023 most meetings have reverted to our traditional F2F meeting  but we still have 5 Zooms and 2 Hybrids.  The ‘online’ tag will find the 5 Zooms plus the 2 Hybrids. If you need the latest WTF just click the ‘help’ Tag and then click the link on the WTF post. The same approach will work for Questions for Conference ( QfC) etc. There are tags for the days of the week Sunday to Saturday. These will give you all the meetings for the respective day.  Just have a play and see what you can find and one last thing: for visitors checking for wheelchair access, please use the ‘access tag’ in the Tags Block on the right or at the bottom if using a phone.

Categories

If you wanted to see all News Posts then select ‘News’  from Categories dropdown.  The categories will also tell you how many Meetings, News item etc that we currently have. If you want all the Intergroup news click the ‘dcig’ Category.

Tags and Categories help us to find information which changes more frequently to that on pages.

News Ticker

Latest news and meetings changes will appear on the Latest News ‘Ticker’ on the Welcome  and the Resources pages.

And Don’t Forget to try the Search – Its awesome.

The NHS have some interesting data on the impact of Alcoholism. Just type ‘NHS’ and see where you end up!

Feedback and Fault Reporting

Any questions, suggestions or if you find something that is broken or not working please use the Contact US link either here or above on the main menu.

Devon Central Intergroup March 2022

 

Creating a New Group (GSR) Email

At the DCIG  meeting (12th Feb 2023), we had a discussion on the GSR email account transfers which accompany the change to a new GSR and the many stressful situations that often ensue. If the new GSR cannot take over the email then the only way forward is to create a new Gmail account. There was a strong argument to keep what we had from one group. However it is worth saying at the outset that if a group has not had any problems using the existing email then they simply carry on doing so but if they have problems now or in the future and cannot use the existing email then a new Group Email can be set up as discussed below. And as ever  what follows is a suggestion on a reasonable way to proceed.

Directly after intergroup, the Tiverton GSR  had the problem and  arrived at a nice  idea for a new email address which with some additional consideration  became town.day.am/pm.yymm(@gmail.com). The last bit YYMM is the year and month of the new GSR being appointed and setting up the new email.

 By way of example, have a look these emails for three Sunday Meetings in the suggested format: exe.sun.am.2201, exm.sun.pm.2108, sea.sun.pm.2004. (GSR example changes Jan 22, Aug 21 and Apr 20). And to be crystal clear the three preceding emails are examples and not real emails.

This new format allows us all to see from the email address:

    • Where the Meeting is running.
    • What day it runs on.
    • Is it in the Morning or Evening.
    • When did the GSR take on the role?

 

The combo will give us an easy unique email address. And all that has to change is the new GSR date – yymm which was the heart of  the Tiverton GSR’s design.

When the new mail account is created the recovery email and the mobile should be those of the new GSR.  When that GSR steps down the succeeding GSR will repeat the process of setting up the new email by changing the YYMM at the end of the group email (town.day.am/pm). When the email change is in place please forward the new email address to the DCIG Secretary and ECLO.

To create a new  gmail account please use the this link:

 https://accounts.google.com/signup/v2/webcreateaccount?flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=SignUp

Need Help Using Our Website ?

How to use devonaa.org.uk.  An ECLO  Guided tour

For those new to the DCIG Website or the Internet in general, the Devon Central ECLO offers a 30 minute workshop on Zoom to help introduce you to the site – both content and function. Please email dcigeclo@gmail.com for a date and time.

 

 

Running a Hybrid Meeting

First, let us define a Hybrid meeting.  This a traditional AA meeting in a room with members present and a secretary running the meeting – all very familiar.   Now, if the meeting room has a strong WiFi connected to a good Internet Connection[1] then on the secretaries’ desk we can have two laptops or one laptop and one tablet both with good cameras and microphones [2]and an external large monitor or video projector for laptop 2 so that room can see and hear the Zoom. Via the first camera and microphone the Zoom can see and hear the room. And so we have one (hybrid) meeting.

You can download a fuller note on Organising and Running a Hybrid Meeting by clicking on the link. This note was first published Sept 2020 and feed back to the eclo email would be helpful.

[1] The internet connection should be at least 8mbps down and 2mbps up

[2] It may be necessary to add a good quality external mic and room camera to the second laptop and if the
room is large a good external monitor or projector as well.