South East Region Assembly 210 – Pre-Conference Assembly
Sunday 6th April 2025

Kings Weald Community Centre, Wyvern Way, Burgess Hill RH15 0GB
The wi-fi password is – kings.weald

Arrival from 9:15am. Please sign the Attendance List when you arrive.
Please bring your own lunch. Lunch break at about 12 o’clock.
Tea and coffee will be available. Breaks will be scheduled.

Please bring your own mug if you can.

10:00 start
Prior apologies received from the Chair
Introduction from the Vice Chair

PRE-CONFERENCE REPORTS FROM CONFERENCE DELEGATES
Questions for Conference 2025
Reports (six Committees)

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
Reminders:
WhatsApp Group (‘South East Region Announcements’). Please contact the Secretary for a link
SER Confidential Directory. Please contact the Secretary to add/change details, or to access a copy
2. Introductions
Apologies
Welcome new Regional Reps and confirm vacancies
3. Confirm quoracy for the meeting
4. Reports from Regional Reps
Reports received: ESIG, HRIG
Please provide electronic copies of Convention flyers
Feedback: Standard reporting template
5. Approval of the Minutes of the previous Assembly
Assembly No. 209 (23rd February 2025) Assembly and Workshops
Note: Workshop Reports were distributed with the Minutes.

Our Intergroups

Brighton Area  East Kent  East Sussex  Hastings & Rother  Mid Surrey  North East Surrey

Northdown  Solent  Southdown  West Kent  West Sussex

6. Matters arising (Assembly 209)
• SER Safeguarding Liaison Officer role
• SER Aims and Structure document
• GSO Forum booked: 23rd November 2025, with the AGM and Group Conscience being
held in the afternoon

7. Confirm current vacancies at SER
• Alternate Conference Delegates FOUR
• Regional Health Liaison Officer
• Regional Public Information Liaison Officer
• Southern National Convention Regional Rep
– Conference Delegates
Will any SER Conference Delegates be rotating out before the next AGM (November 2025)?
8. Report from the Trustee
9. Report from the Treasurer
Report (to follow): from Steve P
Contribution to GSO to be proposed
10. Report from the RECLO
Report: from Richard DP
11. Reports from SER Liaison Officers
Feedback: bulletin format (collated Liaison Officers’ reports)
Received: Electronic Communications, Prisons and Probation, Share, Telephones, Young
Persons
Archives (Nick H)
Alternate Archivist; CV for Barbara M has been distributed.
12. Southern National Convention
Report from the SNC Regional Rep
13. Date of the next AssemblyPost-Conference Assembly, Sunday 29th June 2025
14. Proposed deadlines

• Agenda and papers to be distributed by the SER Secretary 2 weeks prior to Assembly: by
Sunday 15th June 2025

• Regional Rep Reports to be emailed to the SER Secretary 3 weeks prior to Assembly: by
Sunday 8th June 2025

• Liaison Officer Reports to be emailed to the SER Secretary 4 weeks prior to Assembly: by
Sunday 1st June 2025

15. Close (Aim: to close the Assembly by 15:30)
Serenity Prayer

Dates for the rest of 2025: 

Sunday 29th June 2025
Post-Conference Assembly

Kings Weald
Booked

Sunday 28th September 2025
Workshops & Assembly

Kings Weald
Booked

Sunday 23rd November 2025
This has been changed to the GSO Forum
(no longer the AGM & Conscience Assembly

Kings Weald
Booked

AGM & Conscience Assembly
The AGM & Conscience Assembly will
need to be scheduled in
November/December 2025

Kings Weald has advised
they have availability on all
Sundays in Nov and Dec
2025
Closed on 28th December 2025