Preston Bartle Beginners

Preston Bartle Beginners is a Saturday-morning Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with a newcomer's focus, meeting at 10.30am at St John the Evangelist Church Hall on Church Lane in Clifton, between Preston and Kirkham. Despite the 'beginners' name it is a closed meeting — for anyone with a desire to stop drinking — and long-sober members attend to help those in their first days. The meeting runs for an hour and a half, the hall is wheelchair accessible, and a chit system is in operation for anyone needing attendance evidenced. If your drinking has you frightened and you do not know where to start, a beginners meeting is precisely where.