2026 Business Meeting – October
Below are the reports submitted by our trusted servants.
Please review them and share any questions or thoughts you may have.
You can send a message to the Trusted Servant by clicking on the position title.
Trusted Servant Reports
Treasurer April 2026 thru Sept 2026:
Current Balance $757.40, including
7th Tradition donations of $557.40 and
Prudent Reserve of $200.00
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Payments to go out:
Dean Collins $144.00
GSO $330.72
OIAA $82.68
Respectfully submitted,
Cheryl Baughman
GROW Treasurer
Listkeepers
Wendy D Listkeeper position is going well. The Alt Listkeeper has been trained on all aspects of the position. The alternating of service with the Greeters works well. Communication between everyone seems good.
As Alternate Listkeeper, I have enjoyed my one-week-on-one-week-off schedule working with the greeter to admit new members. I periodically have difficulties with our website but having someone to help has worked out. Theresa.
Business Meeting Chair: This position is going well. I face challenges in this position but I know it has lead me to growth which I do my best to embrace. I am glad that I went out of my comfort zone and took this service position.
General Service Rep– No Report – position has not been filled
Secretary No report – position has not been filled
Newcomer Rep
I’m Sophie F, alcoholic and serving as our Newcomer Rep.
I’ve not been nearly as consistent as would be ideal but hopefully things are more settled for me personally and I can be moving forwards.
We had a mini subcommittee after the last Biz Meeting and we began rolling around some ideas about how to ensure we looked after our newcomers and new joiners.
We had some useful feedback around cutting down the initial form letter so it really is more of a “hi, hello” rather than the very long letter it currently stood as.
Currently the amended welcome process is that, as Newcomer Rep, I send a brief welcome/hello and then further form letters if the newcomer /joiner responds and wishes to know more. This way we get to tailor the information available to be specific to what someone is interested in, as it varies so much from person to person.
Hi [name]
I am [newcomer rep name] and I’m an alcoholic, member here in GROW and serving as the Newcomer Rep for GROW.
I see that you joined GROW recently and I’d like to welcome you!
In the past, some members have found our information overwhelming at first, so we created this position (Newcomer Rep) as a helpful resource for anyone new to GROW, new to AA or new to sobriety should you have questions and/or concerns about how our group and/or AA works.
Please let me know if there’s anything I can help with.
[personal sign off eg Big welcome hugs to you! Great to have you here.
[Name]
We also went into quite a lot of discussion over whether we could send a virtual birthday coin either as part of the announcement to the group or individually.
I think we had a volunteer who was going to create a series of j.pegs of images of sobriety chips for this purpose if the group were open to trialling this as an idea.
It has been so good to see a steady flow of ladies joining and even better to see/hear many of those new ladies share regularly on and off topic. It is heartening me to see and feel GROW grow in this way.
I am slightly saddened that my own circumstances mean I’m less connected with the weekly meeting and the group than at any other time in my long GROW membership but I’m still very much participating in AA, and living the 12 step program and Big Book.
My hope is with a more settled schedule I will at least have time to serve more consistently.
I know I have sent out an apology to the group previously and to the new ladies I’ve missed but just to add this again.
Sending those famous GROW {{{{{{{{{{{cyberhugs}}}}}}}}}}}
Sophie F
Somerset U.K.