Our work is not only about political struggle and about advocacy work. We also have fun together, enjoying the company of others in our local groups in an environment free from alcohol and other drugs. There is travelling, concerts and other cultural events. It can be organising of fundraising activities for our fellow members in Eastern Africa or Sri Lanka. The important thing is that the local work is based on what the members in the local group want to do.

IOGT-NTO organises around 40.000 members. Together with our youth- and children’s organisations, we have more than 60.000 members, in some 1.500 local clubs. Many of them are owners of houses for their work.
All over the country, the IOGT-NTO movement has around 200 employees.

Networking
Networking with others gives us the strength to be more successful in our work. One example is co-operation with the sports movement in Sweden in a project raising the awareness about the risks for young people to access alcohol in connection to their sports activities. We also work together with schools and the police authorities with a Swedish version of the peer-supporting model called Dare (Say no to drugs).

Global vision – local action
We are flexible in the way we work. Always the needs of the people we meet decide how we organise ourselves. We are a part of the global IOGT-movement, which exists all over the world. The different organisations work in different ways, in order to adjust to different cultural contexts and social conditions.