About Us

Sounds Good Media is a voluntary service staffed by members of 12 Step fellowships who give their time voluntarily to help themselves stay sober and help others to recover from alcoholism.

Sounds Good Media was set up by a small group of AA members involved in service who detected a great inconsistency in the quality of Public Address systens used at various AA conventions. Having detected this problem they decided to solve it by supplying AA with a reliable P.A. system. The next problem was how to fund th P.A. system. The solution for this was already at hand, record the meetings and sell the tapes. This also helped to solve another problem which was widespread (that of bad quality tapes or no taping of conventions at all - which left no archival record of previous members). So the idea was simply, supply P.A. system, record the meetings, sell the tapes and any excess money goes back into AA.

To comply with traditions a letter was sent to the World General Service Office in New York explaining the concept. The W.G.S.O. replied that AA could not accept money from outside organisations even though they are run by AA members. So Sounds Good couldn't give money to AA, but they could stop convention committes spending money on P.A's by supplying theirs free of charge. The only stipulation for this was that Sounds Good could sell tapes to fund the P.A. system. Due to public demand it was decided to expand the selection of tapes to include popular speakers from America etc. Again there was the problem of quality, so equipment was needed to 'clean' these tapes up. It soon became clear an office would be needed, so from humble beginnings our expansion had developed. This led to more volunteers joining, who used it as an aid to their recovery and went on to other things.

Sounds Good Media today is still run by 12 step fellowship volunteers, we now service AA, Al-Anon, NA & CA Conventions, Step Studies and Special Speaker Meetings. We have supplied tapes free of charge to prisons in Scotland & England. We have also supplied tapes free of charge to fellowships in Poland, Russia, India, Ghanna, Peru, Nepal, etc. We also supplies a free tape monthly to housebound member who couldn't make meetings. However due to a shortage of personnel, a change of premisies this service has been temporarily suspended, with the hope of starting it ip once again. We are always looking for new volunteers to join us and be part of the team and to inject new ideas. So please fell free to join us.

 

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