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WANTED

300 Grateful Alcoholics to join the 300 Club

We are looking for 300 committed members who are prepared to contribute $10 per week to support our General Service Office and so ensure the Fellowship is fully self-supporting rather than having to rely on declining literature sales.

• Your contribution is tax deductible and will be used for our Primary Purpose work, which includes;
• Our 1300 Alcoholics Anonymous Help Line Public Information and advertising
• Our National Website
• Funding our presence at National professional events Your Group’s Insurance
• Maintaining our General Service Office Printing and sales of literature
• Facilitating the General Service Conference (The Group Conscience of Australia)

To join go to https://literature.aa.org.au/pages/donation

Select recurring donation, 300 Club on the drop down menu, select monthly, amount $40 Or Direct Debit

TO: General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Australia
(Note: Can abbreviate to GSO on your bank statements) 

BSB: 012 006
Account: 009750529
Reference 300 Club in the comments

All 300 Club Members will get a numbered Certificate.

CSOSH note: You can make a regularly monthly direct donation to the GSO of a different amount. All donations are important.

For many years the General Service Office (GSO) has been reliant on literature sales to raise revenue to carry out its functions.

With the pandemic, there has been a downturn in literature sales. It is clearly not sustainable to rely on these sales any more for our revenue. It has been shown that our General Service is vulnerable and our prudent reserve needs to be increased from the current 8 months to at least 12 months.

In 1974, The Australian General Service Conference on behalf of all members made this pledge:

“That the Australian Service Conference on behalf of all AA members in Australia pledges that we accept responsibility for the maintenance of a General Service Office and ask the groups in Australia to provide the necessary finance to carry out this task.” 

This responsibility means we are responsible for funding our GSO to ensure that General Service will happen. To be fully self-supporting, this funding should come from members rather than from our declining literature sale profits.

Your contributions pay for

• Our 1300 number
• Literature Printing and sales
• Facilitating the Australian General Conference which is the Group Conscience of Australia
• PI and advertising
• Our National Website
• Funding our presence at National professional events
• Your Group’s Insurance

These are all very important functions and without these the ability to carry out our primary purpose is impacted. The General Service Board is considering a number of strategies.

However in the first instance we ask you to support the 300 Club. A flyer is attached. We ask that you distribute this to your Groups, at Rallies and at Assemblies etc and any recovery related Facebook pages you may belong too. We also ask that you get your Fellowship friends involved. We ask that YOU support us.

Surely with over 20,000 members, there are 300 who will join this Club.
Please make sure you are one.