What Is AASpain.org and How Do You Find English-Speaking AA Meetings in Spain?

AASpain.org is an overview site that points you to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and events across Spain, with links to the group and intergroup sites where the details are actually kept up to date. It is most useful if you are looking for English-speaking meetings, especially in Southern Spain and along the Mediterranean Coast, or if you live somewhere without a local meeting and need to find an online or nearby alternative.

What the site is, and what it is not

AASpain.org is not a central AA service body and does not run the meetings it lists. Its stated purpose is to provide an overview of meetings and events across Spain, with links out to the sites where information is updated by AA groups and intergroups. That distinction matters: if a meeting time or address looks wrong, the group or intergroup page is the place to check, not this overview.

The site is organized around four sections:

• Meetings – the starting point for finding English-speaking meetings.
• Events – AA events happening around Spain.
• Resources – background material, including the AA Preamble and links such as the CER online meeting lists.
• Contact – how to request contact information.

Finding English-speaking meetings in Spain

Meetings listed through the site are primarily located where English-speaking members live, particularly across Southern Spain and along the Mediterranean Coast. If you are in or near those areas, the Meetings section is where you begin.

A practical way to work through it:

1. Open the Meetings section.
2. Identify the region or coastal area you are in or can travel to.
3. Follow the link for that area to the group or intergroup site.
4. Confirm the current day, time, and location there, since those pages are the ones updated by the groups themselves.

Because the overview links out rather than hosting the schedules, treat any listing as a pointer and verify it at the source before travelling.

If there is no in-person meeting near you

Not every part of Spain has a local English-speaking meeting. The site describes two fallbacks for those areas.

AA Loners. Individual members, referred to as "AA Loners," live in areas without in-person meetings. Contact information for them is available upon request through the site's Contact section.

Online meetings. When you are in an area with neither in-person meetings nor AA Loners, lists of online meetings in Europe are available on the CER website, which the site links to under Resources.

What AA itself involves

The site reproduces the AA Preamble, which sets out the basics in AA's own words:

• AA is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other to solve their common problem and help others recover from alcoholism.
• The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
• There are no dues or fees for AA membership; the fellowship is self-supporting through its own contributions.
• AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution, and neither endorses nor opposes any causes.
• Its primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.

Quick reference

The short version: use AASpain.org to orient yourself and find the right link, then rely on the group and intergroup pages for anything you are about to act on.