[this page will be updated shortly, in the meantime, here are some of the temperance associations and societies, some of which are linked to suffrage, education and politics, some male or female run, or mixed]

• National British Women’s Temperance Association (NBWTA)
• Women’s Total Abstinence Union (WTAU)
• United Kingdom Alliance (UKA)
• The Temperance Society
• Band of Hope & Band of Hope Union
• Birmingham Ladies Temperance Union (and other regions)
• British Temperance League
• British Temperance Association
• The Church of England Temperance Society (CETS)
• Independent (later International) Order of Good Templars
• National British Women’s Total Abstinence Union (NBWTAU)
• National Temperance League (NTL)
• National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
• The Scottish Temperance League
• Worlds Women’s Christian Temperance Association (WWCTU)
• Women in Local Government Society
• Women’s Social and Political Union – founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester (WSPU)
• “Y’s” often referred to when working with children – many of the above associations & societies had youth departments
• The Friendly Societies (including but not limited to): The Independent Order of Rechabites, Independent (later International) Order of Good Templars, and many more…