Become a Trees for All donor

There are various ways you can support us. You can plant trees, you can offset carbon emissions or you can support us through a general donation. You can choose whether to do so as a regular contribution or a one-off gesture. Whatever the case, you’ll help us achieve our mission: a green and healthy world for everyone.

Trees for All has ANBI status, which means we’ve been designated a Public Benefit Organisation by the Dutch tax authorities. This gives tax advantages for private or corporate donors.

A private donation may be tax-deductible within the applicable regulations. For these gifts, there’s a ‘threshold’. In one year, you must have donated a certain amount – depending on your income – before you’re eligible for tax deduction. And a maximum amount also applies to this deduction. How much deduction applies to you?

For a one-man business, limited partnership or general partnership, the regulations for private gifts are applicable. If you have a private limited company, the gifts can be deducted from the corporation tax, providing the deductible gifts total no more than 50% of profits, with a maximum of €100,000.
If you’d like to know more about donating to Trees for All with a tax advantage, please contact your accountant and/or the Dutch tax authorities. You can also calculate whether it’s more advantageous to make a corporate or a private donation here.

You certainly can and that would help us enormously! On our website, you can choose whether to donate on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis. You can also opt to give a periodic gift on the basis of an agreement, whereby the same amount is given for at least 5 years, which is set out in the agreement. If these conditions are met, then the whole amount of the gift is tax-deductible.

Ordinary periodic donations (monthly, quarterly or annual) are not set out in an agreement, whereas periodic gifts are set out in a gift agreement. A periodic gift is always tax-deductible. Other donations may be also tax-deductible providing you meet the conditions (a threshold amount and a maximum amount).  Find out more

We work as efficiently and effectively as possible and pride ourselves on the fact that we achieve such wonderful results with a relatively small team. In our annual report, we communicate each year how the donations entrusted to us have been spent.

Exactly because so much forest is disappearing worldwide, it is important to plant new forests and protect existing ones. At the same time, we understand that the news about global deforestation and the increase in forest fires can be discouraging. But doing nothing is not an option as far as we are concerned.

Positivity is one of our core values. We believe that change is possible if we plant more trees together and raise awareness about the importance of trees. The more people who join us, the greater our impact. Every tree counts!

Besides planting trees, you can also contribute to a green and healthy world in other ways. Eating plant-based food more often, avoiding the plane and the car or buying fewer new things: it all contributes to reducing deforestation and environmental pollution. It also helps to consciously choose which organisations you support with your money: from banks, insurers and investors to the (online) shops where you buy your groceries and other items.

Our projects contribute to various Sustainable Development Goals, such as climate, biodiversity, clean water, food security and the fight against poverty. In the Netherlands, the focus is on carbon sequestration, biodiversity and health. The impact of our projects abroad is even wider. Our projects in developing countries also ensure more job opportunities, income and food, and better living conditions. Climate change doesn’t recognise borders, and it is precisely the poorer countries that are hit hardest, whereas they cause the least pollution. Take tropical storms, for instance, or desertification, extreme drought and flooding. This is why we help people to protect themselves better against the effects of climate change.

Trees for All plants half of all trees in the Netherlands and the other half abroad. We do this consciously. Climate change, deforestation and nature loss are global problems. So we aim to tackle them both close to home and on the other side of the world.

If we truly want to make significant progress, it is very important that we also facilitate projects abroad. First of all, there is much more space available to plant trees on a large scale. Moreover, trees in tropical countries grow much faster, which means they absorb more CO2 more quickly. This in turn helps combat further global warming.

Furthermore, people in low-income countries are hit hardest by the effects of climate change and deforestation. Droughts, heatwaves, floods, or hurricanes, for example, cause crop failures or shortages of food and water. This is precisely why it is so important to restore and preserve forests. Our international forest projects contribute to this. Moreover, these projects ensure better living conditions for the people, who benefit from (more) employment, income, food, or better access to water thanks to the project.

In short, by supporting Trees for All you contribute to several sustainable development goals at the same time: climate action, restoration of nature and biodiversity, poverty alleviation and food security.

Trees for All sees sustainability as an important value. We believe in sustainability in everything we do. This applies to the projects and partners we support, but also to the organisation where we work together. We do all we can to plant and manage ‘our’ forests sustainably, so that future generations can also benefit from them. We aim for impactful projects and choose quality over quantity. Of course we aim to plant as many trees as possible, but we want to do so in a responsible way. We build up lasting partnerships, and thus guarantee our long-term involvement.

For more than 25 years, Trees for All has been devoted to creating more forests in the world. Our mission is to plant new forests worldwide and to restore existing forests. We plant trees in the Netherlands and abroad and raise people’s awareness of the importance of trees. In doing so, we aim for a broad impact. Not only do our sustainable forestry projects contribute to a better climate, but they also ensure more biodiversity and healthier living conditions. In this way, along with our donors and partners, we invest in a green and healthy planet for everyone.