Why Register Your Group With GSO? Is Your Group Linked to A.A. As a Whole?

Here is what the AA Service Manual says about registering your group or meeting with GSO

In the spirit of our Twelve Concepts of World Service, each group linked to the local general service structure has the opportunity to participate via District meetings and Area Assemblies in the collective conscience of A.A. in the U.S. and Canada. Each G.S.R. communicates their group’s “conscience” on important matters of policy considered by the District and Area Assembly. By attending Area Assemblies and District meetings, they are expressing their group’s thinking on local matters and those of the entire U.S. and Canada General Service Conference structure. This in turn helps the Area delegate at the Annual General Service Conference meeting to represent the Area’s groups and take part in decisions that affect A.A. as a whole. 

The following forms should be used to update your group information or register a new group with Area 28 General Service. Send the forms to our Area 28 Registrar. We will register your group with the General Service Office allowing both records to be updated with one form, saving us both time.   Send the form to Area 28 Registrar, 499 Broadway #225, Bangor, ME 04401.  

• Use this form to change your meeting location, time, or GSR contact or additional contact information – Group change form
• Use this form to register a new group or register a group that has been in existence but never received a group id number from GSO – New group registration form
• This form is used to update the DCM and is here for convenience only; it has a very limited audience – DCM Change Form