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A live count of every recovery meeting listed on 12stepfinder: 21,458 meetings across 30 fellowships, updated October 2026.
12stepfinder lists 21,458 recovery meetings across the UK, drawn from 30 different fellowships. The figures below are counted live from the directory and refreshed daily, so they reflect what is actually listed right now, not a survey or an estimate.
This is a count of what 12stepfinder lists, not a claim to have every recovery meeting in the country. Fellowships publish their meetings in different places and some are not published online at all, so the real national total is higher. We add fellowships and sources as we find them. If something is missing, tell us at info@12stepfinder.co.uk and we will look into adding it.
Permission to cite: the aggregate figures on this page are free to quote or reproduce, including in news articles, research and public-sector information, as long as you credit 12stepfinder and link to this page. That permission covers the totals and breakdowns here. It does not extend to copying or mirroring the underlying meeting listings themselves, which belong to the fellowships that publish them.
The most heavily served areas for in-person meetings. Online meetings are not tied to a place, so they are counted separately above.
| Greater London | 1,345 |
| Greater Manchester | 300 |
| Essex | 242 |
| Kent | 223 |
| Glasgow City | 219 |
| East Sussex | 216 |
| West Midlands | 212 |
| Merseyside | 204 |
| Hampshire | 191 |
| Lancashire | 189 |
| West Yorkshire | 187 |
| Surrey | 186 |
Greater London has more in-person recovery meetings than anywhere else in the UK. These counts are in-person only. Online meetings are listed separately because they can be joined from anywhere.
There are 1,345 in-person recovery meetings listed across Greater London, more than any other part of the UK.
12stepfinder lists 21,458 active recovery meetings across the UK, across 30 fellowships. This is a live count from the directory, refreshed daily.
12,324 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are listed in the UK, of which 7,855 can be joined online. AA is by a wide margin the largest fellowship in the country.
745 in-person Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are listed across Greater London, out of 1,345 in-person recovery meetings in the capital in total. Online meetings are not counted here, because they are not tied to a place, and any of them can be joined from London.
4,798 Narcotics Anonymous meetings are listed in the UK, of which 3,400 can be joined online. 265 of them meet in person across Greater London.
25 twelve-step fellowships hold meetings in the UK and are listed here, from AA and NA to smaller ones like Debtors Anonymous and Crystal Meth Anonymous. There is no worldwide total to quote: each fellowship is independent of the others, so no single body keeps a list. 12stepfinder also lists 5 peer support organisations that are not twelve-step, such as SMART Recovery and Recovery Dharma.
20,537 of the 21,458 meetings listed belong to a twelve-step fellowship. The rest belong to peer support organisations that work in a different way. All of them are free to attend.
13,214 of the 21,458 listed meetings, about 62%, can be joined online. More UK recovery meetings are now online than in person.
Alcoholics Anonymous is by far the largest, with 12,324 listed meetings, followed by Narcotics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous.
Yes. The aggregate figures on this page are free to quote or reproduce in news articles, research and public-sector information, as long as you credit 12stepfinder and link to this page. They are counted from 12stepfinder's own directory of UK recovery meetings. The permission covers these totals and breakdowns, not copying the underlying meeting listings.
You are welcome to quote or reproduce these figures in news articles, research and public-sector information, as long as you credit 12stepfinder and link to this page. The spreadsheet below holds the same totals and breakdowns you see here. It does not contain the meeting listings themselves, which belong to the fellowships that publish them.
12stepfinder. UK recovery meetings: the numbers, by fellowship and format. Counted 10 October 2026. https://12stepfinder.co.uk/uk-recovery-meetings-statistics
Download the figures as a spreadsheet (CSV)
Counted live from the 12stepfinder directory and refreshed daily. Last updated October 2026. How we source and verify meetings: our methodology.