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In 2010, the New Order of Druids introduced the NOD Nature Donation Funds. For each paid upgraded membership, we would donate € 5 to the Nature Conservancy. 

Due to circumstances, it has been decided that as of this year we will no longer endorse the Nature Conservancy. Instead, the donations for the upgraded memberships will go to the planting of trees through the organisation Trees For All, which is located in the Netherlands and has forestation projects in various parts of the world. This means that, for each paid upgraded membership, one tree will be planted. This will already apply for all upgraded membership starting January 1, 2025.

Trees For All is a Public Benefit Organisation based in the Netherlands (Europe) with a CBFcertificate. For more than 25 years, Trees For All has been devoted to creating more forests in the world, not only in Europe but also in many other parts of the world. It is their intention to contribute in this way to a better climate, more biodiversity and healthier living conditions.

When you pay for an upgraded membership, you don't need to do anything for this donation to plant a tree - we will do it automatically for you. The donation to plant the trees at Trees For All will be made once a year, usually in January, where we add all the amounts based on the upgraded memberships together. When we make our yearly payment, we will choose one of the various projects in the world Trees For All is working on, and we will alternate between the various projects each year to contribute to all of them in turn.After having made the donation to Trees For All, we will receive a digital certificate in name of New Order of Druids, to certifiy that the donation has been made and the amount of trees have been planted.

Read more about this: 
https://www.druidcircle.org/nod/index.php/en/home/plant-a-tree

Read more about how to upgrade your membership: 
https://www.druidcircle.org/nod/index.php/en/membership-options

Read more about the Trees for All organisation: https://treesforall.nl/ 

Due to vacation, the webmaster and membership administration departments will not be available until July 14. Any questions sent to these departments will be handled afterwards.Thank you for your understanding and have a great Summer!

We are pleased to announce that, as of today, we are providing many new payment options for the payment of upgraded memberships. 

Today we have implemented the Stripe platform, which provides a large number of common and international payment options. These payment options are:

Most common credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express and more), Payments Canada, Affirm, BECS Direct Debit, BACS Direct Debit, Bancontact (Belgium), Blik, Boleto, EPS, FPX, GrabPay, iDeal (Netherlands), Klarna, Konbini, Link, OXXO, Przelewy24, Pix, PayNow, PromptPay and ACH Direct Debit.

In addition to these new payment options, it is of course also still possible to use Paypal for making payments. You can use your Paypal account, or if you don't have an account, you can still pay with most common credit cards there also.

If none of the payment options above are possible for you, then the option of Offline Payment naturally remains available too, although this will not immediately activate your upgrade and may take some time as it needs to be processed manually.

Learn more about upgrades here:

https://www.druidcircle.org/nod/index.php/nl/membership-options