Date of Meeting: 26th July 2026 

 

 

Meeting Agenda for 26th July 2026 

1. OPEN – 1pm

– Chairperson’s welcome 

– Moment of Silence 

– Service Prayer 

God, grant us the knowledge that we may act accordingly to your Divine precepts. Instil in us a sense of Your purpose. Make us servants of your will and grant us a bond of selflessness that this may truly be Your work, not ours -in order that no addict, anywhere, need die from the horrors of addiction. 

– Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners 

This group would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet, the Wadjuk Noongar people.  It is upon their ancestral lands that we meet.  We pay respect to their Elder’s past and present.  

– New GSR information sheet being handed around 

Please complete your name, email address, group you are representing and phone number.  Email address information and phone number is required to be able to add you to the WhatsApp chat and the email distribution list. 

Could GSR’s please also add any outstanding action items to be brought up later in this meeting. 

2. READING OF TRADITIONS & CONCEPTS

Full reading of Concept of the month, this month is Concept 8, followed by a 10-minute educational discussion.  This is to discuss, reflect and clarify so that trusted servants have a better understanding of the NA Concepts. 

Traditions and Concept 8 read by group members. 

3. ID OF MEMBERS

– Welcome to Newcomers and Observers 

A simple welcome and ask for introductions. 

 

– Apologies and Absent members 

Request any apologies or note any absent members. 

 

 

 

– Roll Call 

Chair calls out each group name from the table below to Establish Quorum. Each member briefly identifies themselves (Name, Position).  Then remaining members at ASC identify themselves.  **Note changes as needed 

 

– Establish Quorum 

 

Attendee Table 

Quorum = 50% + 1 (of active groups) are present 

Strikethrough = Inactive group (struck off active list on the 3rd x)  

P = present    x = Absent 

 

	Group	Name	May	Jun	Jul
1	North Perth Lunchies	Shannon	P	P	P
2	Monday & Saturday Merriwa	Cassie	X	X	P
3	Monday Carramar Mens	Lance	A	P	P
4	Monday Northbridge	Naomi	P	A	P
5	Monday Fremantle Steps		X	X	X
6	Monday Geraldton Steps and Traditions		X	X	X
7	Monday Bunbury		X	X	X
8	Port Hedland Just For Today	Joel	P	X	X
9	Tuesday East Victoria Park		X	X	X
10	Women’s Spiritual Principles	Ash/Erica	P	P	P
11	Tuesday Success-ful Recovery	Kahla	X	P	P
12	Ellenbrook Tuesday NA				X
13	Tuesday Whitfords United Recovery	Bec/Alicia	P	A	P
14	Tuesday Women’s Bunbury		X	X	X
15	Tuesday Mandurah Living Clean	Cris	X	X	X
16	Wednesday North Beach	Dylan	X	X	X
17	Wednesday Southside Lunchie	Matt	X	X	X
18	Wednesday Bassenclean	Jason	X	A	X
19	Wednesday Spiritual Awakening			X	X
20	Wednesday Young Adults	Harrison	X	X	P
21	Wednesday Willagee Just for Today	Brett	P	A	P
22	Wednesday Carramar Steps and Traditions	Cynthia	P	P	P
23	Monday Northam Meeting	Catherine	P	P	P
24	Wheelie Early Thursdays			X	X
25	Thursday Womens Midland	Kim	X	X	X
26	Thursday Gosnells Recovery		X	X	X
27	Thursday Joondanna Men’s	Josh	P	P	P
28	Thursday Eaton	Jason	X	X	X
29	Thursday speaker and Meditation Fremantle	Rob	X	X	X
30	Thursday Night Mandurah Back to basics	Clint	X	P	X
31	Friday Leederville Steps	Toby	P	P	P
32	Friday Night Live Rockingham	Paul	P	A	X
33	Friday night Newcomers Currumbine	Kamil	X	X	X
34	Saturday Subiaco Living Clean	Josh	X	P	P
36	Saturday Bayswater ID	Tevie	P	A	P
37	Saturday Whitfords Strength & Hope	Julie	X	X	X
38	Saturday Night Women’s		X	X	X
39	Sunday Ellenbrook Unity	John	X	X	X
40	Sunday Margaret River Support Group		X	X	X
41	Sunday Bassenclean	Jess	X	X	X
42	Sunday Leederville Newcomers	Jacob	A	X	X
43	Rainbow Recovery (Wed & Sun)	Colleen	P	P	P
44	Scarborough Lunchie	Sam	X	P	X
45	Sunday Mandurah Men At Work	Stu	X	X	X
46	Sunday Mandurah Empowering Women	Paula	X	P	P
47	Sunday Albany	Luka	X	X	X
48	Sunday Gosnells	Lester	X	A	X
	Total Groups =  48
	Total Active Groups = 24				17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ASC Representatives	Members Name	May	Jun	Jul
Chair	Lee	P	P	P
Vice Chair	Vacant
Secretary	Nikita	A	P	P
Treasurer	Adam	A	P	P
Alt Treasurer	Bek	P	P	A
Tea and Coffee	Finn	P	A	P
Subcommittees
Activities	Paul/Dani representing	P	A	P
Phone Line	Erica	P	P	P
Hospitals and Institutions	Clint	A	P	A
Convention	Cynthia	P	P	P
Indigenous Chair	Ryan	X	A	P
IT Chair	Claire	X	P	A

 

10 minute Break 

 

4. ACCEPTANCE OF PREVIOUS MINUTES

Members who were present at the last meeting (and have read the minutes) proposes to move, GSR (who was present & has read them) seconds minutes.  Amendments are discussed, if accepted they are noted in the current minutes. 

Accepted by Erica, seconded by Cynthia 

 

 

5. ACTION ITEMS

– Rollover Items (Items from previous ASC Meeting): 

• Increase Convention budget request – Discussion following review of final ledger. Total final profit $8318.01, including $2000 bond return. Members contributed donations as 7th due to current budget – amounts donated are not recorded. Original suggestion for budget was $12,000 – recorded outgoings for conventions is $14,529.21. Suggestion to change Convention from ad-hoc subcommittee to allow members to pass on previous experience and support new members. Final decision to wait for new Convention Chair, allow new Chair to propose budget increase. Convention Chair is now open, to be advertised from August ASC. 

 

 

 

 

– Elections & Vacancies 

Vacancies: 

Anyone wanting information on position descriptions, email secretary.wa@na.org.au. 

• Vice Chair – 1 year clean time – nil 

• Alt-Treasurer – 2 year clean time – nil 

• Alt Secretary – 6 months clean time – nil 

• Phoneline Chair – 18 months clean time – nil 

• PR Chair – 18 months clean time – nil 

• Alt RCM – 2 years clean time – nil 

• Fellowship Development Chair – 18 months clean time – nil 

• Policy chair – 18 months clean time – nil 

 

 

– Discussion Items: 

• WANA – 50th Anniversary (2028) – Discussion around how we would like to celebrate as a fellowship. Possibility of ad-hoc committee to organise event. VIC Celebration 21st August 2026, available on Zoom for all members to attend. 

 

 

 

 

 

• Northam Meeting – Discussion around member in attendance at Northam meeting. Member in attendance who is not allowed to have contact with children. Did not have contact during meeting but did have contact at fellowship. Group members contacted police. Discussion around different types of meetings Northam can hold to ensure safety of all members whilst allowing member in question to access meeting at times. Member continuing to interact with children. Homegroup members unsure of how to approach member in question. Members have been sent information regarding disruptive, violent and predatory behaviour, and have been offered support in the form of members volunteering to attend next meeting. 

• Language changes for literature – Literature changes from FSO – supporting gender neutral language.  

• Zoom availability for Wednesday – Carramar – Directed to email IT Chair to determine if account is free, then contact Area for approval. 

• Authorisations for bank account – can subcommittee treasurer authorise – Outgoing Treasurer has requested another signatory. Chair has agreed. Activities Treasurer to be given permission to authorise payments for other subcommittees. 

• Acknowledgement of Country – Question around Acknowledgement of Country being included in preamble. Groups are autonomous and not affiliated with any outside groups or organisations. 

 

 

ACTION ITEMS – accouncing vacant admin roles 

• Niki to complete flyers for roles sent in GSR chat 

• Prior convention chair to supply cups for ASC 

 

 

Close of meeting with Serenity Prayer 

Next meeting – 30th August 2026.