Objectives of DGI - The Local Association

Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations intend to strengthen the voluntary associations as the framework og sport emphasizing the importance of fellowship, challenge and health in order to promote the educative qualities of the association activities.

In less formal words: Through practising sports in an association members learn how to value other people and how to see themselves as parts of a fellowship, whether this is the association itself or society in general.

The association is a possibility for people to be together, to share experiences, to learn how to assume responsibility for others, and to influence their own lives. Thus, DGI sees the association as the hub or focal point, and as a centre of activities in the local community it therefore acquires an indispensable social and democratic value.

DGI is adamant that the wide range of offers must be directed at all members of the associations. In particular, the associations should have a choice for all their members at all levels of competence.

A typical DGI local association has several activities - sports as well as non-sport activities, the most numerous being gymnastics, football (soccer), badminton, swimming and team handball. Apart from these five, DGI encompasses the following sports/cultural activities on the national level:

Athletics, basketball, budo (martial arts), canine sports ("agility"), children's sports, cultural and educational activities, folk dancing, international activities in general, open-air sports (canoeing etc.), pétanque, sports for the elderly, table-tennis, tennis, theatre, Ultimate and Volleyball.