Please use this form.

Usually your meeting will appear on the website after a few days. You will then receive an email from our Meetings Administrator letting you know this, with a link to the new meeting page, and additional important information. Please check your spam folder if you haven’t received this, or email meeting@adultchildrenofalcoholics.co.uk if you can’t find it.

Whilst not a requirement, we encourage you to find other ACAs to start an in-person meeting with, rather than doing so on your own. You could attend online meetings and make a call out for locals interested in doing this during the meeting’s announcements time, other fellowship meetings might be willing for you to let their attendees know, or there are often opportunities at conventions to find ACAs local to you.

The Big Red Book has a guide to setting up a meeting, starting on page 559 (although some of it doesn’t apply to the UK), and there’s a short version of that here.

We encourage all meetings to read the insights into the Traditions, starting on page 489 of the BRB, and to establish a healthy and respectful group conscience process. 

We ask meetings to be mindful of safeguarding and you can find a range of resources for meetings here.

No – there’s a space on the new meeting registration form to put the date that your meeting starts – we will put it on the website with a notice at the top stating the first meeting date. This helps give people more time to be aware of your meeting on the website.

No – Tradition 7 states that all meetings are self-supporting, so your room hire and other costs will need to be paid for by your members’ 7th Tradition contributions. We’ve published some advice for meetings with financial difficulties here.

Please use this form.

Please use this form.

Yes – please see our Safeguarding Committee’s page here for the resources they’ve created to help meetings. You can also contact them directly on safeguard@adultchildrenofalcoholics.co.uk

The safeguarding advisory policy that was voted in by the fellowship in September 2024 is described here. We ask everyone who opens a meeting to acknowledge this information, but it is advice, not a requirement. Just as it is your meeting’s choice to write a meeting script that suits you, you can choose to alter or shorten the safeguarding statement, have it displayed in written form, only read it when newcomers are present, etc. It is ACA UK’s responsibility to let meetings know that they have a duty of care for their attendees.

There isn’t any formal way of registering as an Intergroup Rep or GSR. Any ACA can attend an Intergroup meeting and you can sign up to receive Intergroup’s minutes and agenda on the same page. If you want to change your meeting’s contact email to your own, or add it as an additional one, please use this form.

ACA UK holds Public Liability insurance which covers all meetings listed on this website. Please see this page for further information and the documents to download and send to your venue.

For a few reasons:

1) When it notifies us that it has closed, via this form.

2) ACA UK needs to conduct meetings audits annually, to ensure our meeting information is still accurate, and to remove any non-active meetings. If a meeting doesn’t respond to the audit emails, they will be removed from the website until contact is made. When we’re in an audit period this will be publicised via our website, Intergroup minutes, and WhatsApp Channel. 

3) At any time, ACA UK Intergroup and Meetings Admin needs to be able to contact  meetings, and receive a response. When meetings register with the website we ask that, as contact person for that meeting, they acknowledge the responsibility to respond to our emails. If we make reasonable efforts to contact a meeting and this is not responded to, ACA UK may remove your meeting from the website 14 days after our last email to the meeting. We will notify the meeting of this action if removal occurs. 

4) Meetings may be removed for safeguarding reasons – you can read about this policy and the procedure here.

No. Many meeting only have a private contact email, which means that it is NOT published on the website and only Intergroup Serving Officers will use it to contact you about the meeting, when necessary. 

If you currently only have a private contact email for the meeting but would like one published on the website for ACAs to contact you on then please complete the update meeting form and select the option to change ‘A Meeting Contact Email’, then select ‘Add or change a PUBLIC contact email’. Please consider whether you’re comfortable for your personal email to be shared, or if you want to create one specifically for this purpose.

Whilst the fellowship voted in May 2025 to reverse the requirement to use non-personal emails (excluded by vote in September 2023 for administrative purposes) as public contacts on meeting pages, we currently still do not allow phone numbers on your meeting page. If you enter one into the update form the Meeting Administrator won’t include it. You are free to set up an auto-reply on your public contact email which includes a personal phone number, if you wish to.

All meetings can print their own copies of the ACA leaflets (tri-folds) – you can find them here. ACA UK Intergroup have also created a Newcomer’s Leaflet – Staying Safe in ACA.

If you are hosting an online meeting you can share ACA literature in the following ways:

1. You can screen share from a Kindle app

2. You can buy an ebook and the Tech Host can screen share this

3. You can copy and paste no more than 5 pages of an ACA book into a document such as Power Point and screen share the document.

Sharing literature at a face-to-face meeting:

1. The easiest way to ensure we don’t breach copyright is to read from book(s). However, if this is not possible, for some meetings you can share literature in the following way, without breaching copyright:

2. You can photocopy and share up to 5 pages of an ACA book at a meeting. It’s really important that the copied pages are removed from the meeting venue each week and destroyed. Leaving the copied pages at the venue or giving them away can be a breach of copyright.

It is important that no more than 5 pages at a time are copied for each meeting. The ACA World Service Organisation has found that at times books have been copied and turned into a PDF: this is a big breach of copyright.

Yes they can, but groups need to be mindful of the Traditions. Please read the section ‘Non-Conference Approved Literature’ in this Literature Policy leaflet.