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To contact your Bournemouth AA Intergroup, please email the IG Secretary at:
[email protected]

On this page:
– The new AA IT Handbook: protect your anonymity, the Principles & Traditions during AA service.
– Dates of Intergroup Meetings 2026
– Intergroup Service Positions: VACANCIES
– Intergroup Service Positons: Descriptions
– How to volunteer for Intergroup Service positions?
– About Intergroup service: The benefits to you.

Download & Print the new AA IT Handbook to help protect your anonymity, the AA Principles & Traditions while using IT during AA service.

Intergroup Meetings 2026

14th May, August and November.
(Starts at 7.30pm. The doors open at 7pm)
At: Boscombe Baptist Church,
26 Palmerston Rd, Boscombe,
Bournemouth BH1 4HS.
(Teas, coffees & biscuits are served)

All members of AA can attend IG Meetings. GSRs & AA members with an IG service are requested to attend. GSRs & AA members with an IG service can vote. 

Intergroup Service Positions: VACANCIES

These IG positions require your service! Please volunteer at the next IG meeting on 1th February 2026. For any questions you may have regarding Intergroup Service, please initially ask your Sponsor.
– Share Magazine Liaison Officer (SMLO)
– 1 x Region Officer

For more information on these vacancies, please email the Secretary at: [email protected]

Intergroup Service Positions: DESCRIPTIONS

Young Persons Liaison Officer (YPLO)
Recommended 2 years sobriety. Ideally the YPLO is someone who came into AA at the age of 30 or younger and so will have experience of getting sober at a young age, and so better to relate to the particular problems faced by young people seeking to live sober. Full details at: The AA Service Handbook (page 106)
Email the YPLO at: [email protected]

Probation Liaison Officer
​Recommended 2 years sobriety. The Probation Liaison Officer offers assistance to the Probation services in respect to offering advice, information and support to probationers who have entered the criminal justice system because of an alcohol problem. The main object of liaising with the Probation Services is to carry the message that AA exists, and that its members are freely available to help those who have got into trouble under the Criminal Justice System because of their drinking. Full details at: The AA Service Handbook (page 84).
Email the Probation LO at: [email protected]

Prisons Liaison Officer (PLO)
​Recommended 2 years sobriety. The Prison Liaison Officer co-ordinates and communicates with prison authorities and prison groups in order to offer information and advice to those professionals that work within the prison system with those who have drinking problems. Full details at:The AA Service Handbook (page 80)

Armed Services Liaison Officer
Recommended 2 years sobriety. The Armed Forces Liaison Officer is responsible for the communication with the Armed Forces. The Armed Forces Liaison Officer is generally an ex service personnel and would be happy to offer any assistance or information that AA can provide in respect to armed service men or women with alcohol problems. Full details at: The AA Service Handbook (page 40)
Email the Armed Services LO at: [email protected]

Share Magazine Liaison Officer (SMLO) VACANT!
The SMLO provides essential contact between members, groups and their region.
The main aim is to inform the Fellowship via the groups that the magazine exists.
This can be accomplished by visiting groups in the intergroup area, providing
subscription forms and helping to set up a subscription. The ISLO is invited to
attend an annual Share workshop. They may also attend conventions or other
AA gatherings to raise awareness, encourage the sale of the magazine and
seek contributions of articles, photos and cartoons from members.

The length of sobriety required for this position is usually two years, and the
officer is expected to serve for two years – up to a maximum of three if no
successor is forthcoming.
Email the SMLO at: [email protected]

Public Information Officer (PILO)
​Recommended 2 years sobriety. The Public Information Officer is responsible for ensuring that information about the Alcoholics Anonymous message and programme of recovery is conveyed to outside organisations to the best possible advantage. Full details at: The AA Service Handbook (page 25)
Email the PILO at: [email protected]

Telephone Service Liaison Officer (TLO)
​Recommended 2 years sobriety. The Telephone Liaison Officer co-ordinates the working of the Telephone Service which operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to offer advice and information to those suffering with alcohol problems and anyone who would like more information about alcoholism. More details at: The AA Service Handbook (page 92)
Email the TLO at: [email protected]

Electronic Communications Liaison Officer (ECLO)
​Recommended 2 years sobriety. The Electronics Liaison Officer is responsible for the Bournemouth and District AA Intergroup website and relevant communications. Duties include keeping meeting details up to date on the website and including any information of interest to members of the fellowship in the Bournemouth and District Area. Full details at: The AA Service Handbook (page 46).  Email the ECLO at: [email protected]

Employment Liaison Officer (ELO)
​​Recommended 2 years sobriety. The Employment Liaison Officer co-ordinates and communicates with employers and their employees in order to offer information and guidance as to how AA can help; not only employers with colleagues who have a drink problem but also employees who have a drink problem. Full details at: The AA Service Handbook (page 61)
Email the ELO at: [email protected]

Health Liaison Officer (HLO)
Please see full details at: The AA Service Handbook (page 68)
Email the HLO at: [email protected]

How to volunteer for Intergroup Service Positions?

In the first instance, please ask to your Sponsor.

About Intergroup service: The benefits to you?

Growing into Service
A quote from our co-founder Bill W on General Service in AA:
“An AA service is anything whatever that helps us reach a fellow sufferer
– ranging all the way from the Twelfth Step itself to a ten-cent phone call
and a cup of coffee, and to AA’s General Service Office for national and
international action. The sum total of all these services is our Third Legacy
of Service.” (Pass It On, page 347)

AA Service
Alcoholics Anonymous is more than a set of principles; it is a Fellowship of
alcoholics in action. Service is at the centre of every AA concept and activity. It is as fundamental to AA as abstinence is to sobriety. Without this giving of oneself to another, there would be no Fellowship. This desire to serve improves recovery.

As newcomers, we see people giving time, energy and love in the service of the
Fellowship, and it is suggested that we too should become involved. Those of us who have done this will tell you of the enormous benefits we have received by willingly stepping into service. A great paradox of AA is that rewards come when we begin to forget ourselves.

What are these rewards?
Simple service tasks have helped to develop confidence, a belief in one’s
own value and opinions, self-respect and self-worth. We have all found that
participating in service activities has helped our recovery.

Everyone in AA has some contribution to make. There are so many ways of
practising our Twelfth Step. Some are talented in hospital or prison work, others
can write to loners or answer telephones and some have abilities which lie in
committee activities or sponsorship. But service is not just for a small number
of experienced people. Each one of us has been surprised at the abilities which
have emerged with a willingness to grow in service.

How do I become involved?
AA’s Twelfth Step “Carrying the Message” is the basic service that our Fellowship gives; it is our principal aim, and the main reason for our existence. We must carry AA’s message otherwise we ourselves may fall into decay and those who have not been given the truth may die.

Carrying AA’s message is therefore the heart of our Third Legacy of Service. Any action which helps AA to function as a whole is service.

Service within Intergroup
• Prison sponsorship
• Twelfth-Stepping in hospitals
• Talks to schools, the professions, and outside agencies Telephone service
• Arranging public meetings Arranging mini-conventions
• Services listed above and also Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Where to Find Officer.

Intergroups may elect up to three Regional Representatives, who attend,
participate and vote in regional assemblies, carrying their intergroup’s conscience forward to the region.

In most of these activities the responsibility will be shared, creating a deeper bond between groups of members all trying to carry AA’s message. Those members who do this work in isolation do not receive the same benefits as those who carry out tasks with one another. Sharing in every activity is the way the Fellowship of AA works best. The more we share our experience, strength and hope with each other, the more we will be able to maintain and deepen our sobriety.

Please also see The Region Chapter, Section 2, “The Regional Assembly” in
the AA Structure Handbook.