About the Wake Forest Alano Club

We are a non-profit organization designed for our members to meet and share their experience, strength, and hope with each other because of our common concern for people trying to achieve and maintain a life free from the use of alcohol or drugs. The WAC is located at 502 S. White Street in Wake Forest  (click here to get directions.)

The Alano Club offers the recovering alcoholic a place to go – to take a break and have a cup of coffee with men and women who understand the program and the process of recovery. We come together to find support and to learn about the many other resources available to the recovering alcoholic in our community.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) does not finance or lend its name to any outside organization. The Wake Forest Alano Club is an outside organization, separate and distinct from AA, Al-Anon, or any treatment facility. Each meeting held at the Club is conducted by an autonomous group, and each group pays rent to the club to help pay expenses. Membership in the Alano Club is independent of membership in any of the various organizations that use the club's facilities for their meetings.

The Wake Forest Alano Club was first conceived in the early part of the year 2005, when a few discouraged AA members were unable to find a meeting place in Wake Forest for a new AA meeting. “We should just open our own club,” one of them said. “We could have a safe place for all those seeking recovery to go,” said another. “Yeah, we should do it, but where would the money come from to rent a building and to open a Club?” the third asked. Nothing much came of this simple exchange at the time, but the idea had been planted in their minds, and that was all that was needed to get things rolling.

Two years later, one in the group had plodded far enough down the happy road of destiny to see that an AA Club could be a reality for the Wake Forest area. With his AA brothers’ and sisters’ encouragement, a plan of action was completed that met the requirements to form the fellowship that would become the Wake Forest Alano Club.

Club membership is open to all. Members include non-alcoholics who support the objectives of the Alano Club, the family and friends of recovering alcoholics, and recovering alcoholics and addicts. Dues are $20.00 a month or a yearly payment of $220.00 per year for Monthly WAC Membership. Additional membership levels* are available for those who wish to play a larger part in supporting Club operations. The Club is governed by a board of volunteer directors elected from the Club’s membership.