Date of the next Assembly
South East Region Assembly (214) Sunday 26th January 2026
Morning: Workshops
Afternoon: Assembly
AGENDA
South East Region Assembly 214 – Workshops and Assembly
Sunday 25th January 2026
Kings Weald Community Centre, Wyvern Way, Burgess Hill RH15 0XY
The wi-fi password is – kings.weald
Arrival from 9:15am. Please sign the Attendance List when you arrive.
Please bring your own lunch. Tea and coffee will be available.
Please bring your own mug if you can.
Breaks will be scheduled.
10:00 start
Prior apologies have been received from the SER Chair
Introduction from the Vice Chair
For each Workshop: Please could someone be nominated to provide a written report (within one week after Assembly, to be emailed to secretary.se@aamail.org).
WORKSHOPS
10:00 – 10:20
Discussion about holding future Workshops online
10:21 – 10:45
12 Traditions Checklist
10:46 – 12:00
Workshops for all service disciplines
Aim: to enable everyone to focus on their roles and to brainstorm strategies for improving collaboration, to improve ways of reaching the still suffering alcoholic, to foster ways of fulfilling the service role as required.
Lunch break: 12:00 to 12:45
ASSEMBLY
1. Welcome
Preamble
Two of the Twelve Concepts for World Service (short form)
Declaration of Unity
This we owe to AA’s future: to place our common welfare first; to keep our fellowship united. For on AA unity depend our lives and the lives of those to come.
Housekeeping: please put your hand up and not speak unless invited by the Chair.
2. Introductions
Apologies
Welcome new Regional Reps and confirm vacancies
3. Confirm quoracy for the meeting
4. Approval of the Minutes of previous Assemblies
Assembly No. 212 (28th September 2025) Assembly and Workshops
Assembly No. 213 (23rd November 2025) AGM and Conscience Assembly
5. Matters arising (Assembly 212 and Assembly 213)
• CONFIRM Liz W as SER Vice Chair absent from the November 2025 AGM
CONFIRM Sim B as SER Share Liaison Officer absent from the November 2025 AGM
CONFIRM Anthony S as a SER Rep for the Southern National Convention
absent from the November 2025 AGM
ELECTION of Liz W as an Alternate Conference Delegate
absent from the November 2025 AGM
• SER Vacancies Board for Conventions
• Card Readers: Feedback from Intergroups – How Region can support our member
Intergroups
• Reminder that Regional Reps have agreed to use the standard reporting template
6. South East Region Aims and Structure Document
January 2026 Version (Draft) shared with the Agenda
7. Approval of the Annual Accounts 2024/25 and the Annual Budget 2025/26
Quarter 1 2025/26 report from the Treasurer
8. Reports from Regional Reps
Reports received: ESIG, EKIG, HRIG, MSIG, WKIG, WSIG
Questions
9. Reports from Regional Liaison Officers and the Archivist
Reports received: Armed Services, Electronic Communications, Share; Archives
Questions
10. Visits to member Intergroups by the SER Chair and the SER Treasurer
11. Report from the Trustee
12. Report from the Southern National Convention
13. Confirm current vacancies at SER
Note: No nominations have been received at the date this Agenda was issued
– Employment Liaison Officer
– Health Liaison Officer
– Young Persons Liaison Officer
– Alternate Conference Delegates (four vacancies)
14. Date of the next Assembly (215):
Sunday 31st May 2026: Post Conference Assembly
• Deadlines:
Liaison Officer Reports and report from the Archivist to be emailed to the SER Secretary
4 weeks prior to Assembly: by Sunday 3rd May 2026
• Regional Rep Reports, to be emailed to the SER Secretary 3 weeks prior to Assembly: by Sunday 10th May 2026
• Agenda and papers to be distributed by the SER Secretary 2 weeks prior to Assembly: by Sunday 17th May 2026
15. Close
Serenity Prayer
Please could everyone help to clear and tidy the room
Dates for the rest of 2025/26
Sunday 18th January 2026 is the SNCC AGM
Assembly 215 Sunday 31st May 2026
Post Conference Assembly
Kings Weald – booked
Conference is 17th – 19th April 2026 in York
Assembly 216 Sunday 27th September 2026
Workshops & Assembly
Kings Weald – booked
Assembly 217 Sunday 29th November 2026
Workshops & Assembly
Kings Weald – booked
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