Membership Changes October 2025
Dear members,
As notified in Desmo 281... In case you missed it, after 19 years - 2006 to be exact, when petrol was 96p a litre, and 1st Class stamps were 32p (now £1.65!) - we will be increasing membership fees to the following amounts:
Single Membership £30
Joint Membership £32
Single Standing Order Membership £28
Joint Standing Order Membership £30
Single Overseas Membership Desmo by Post £40 (£38 Standing Order)
Single Overseas Desmo by email £30 (£28 Standing Order)
Joint Overseas Membership Desmo by Post £42 (£40 Standing Order)
Joint Overseas Desmo by email £32 (£30 Standing Order)
This increase will happen on the 1st October 2025.
Unfortunately, to enable this increase to be become active for all, we will need to cancel all recurring PayPal and Card payments as otherwise the fees will not increase. Therefore, members who want to continue to pay by recurring payment method can then set this up again when their renewal is due after 1st October; we’re sorry for this inconvenience, but it is unavoidable.
Regarding the other form of recurring payment, which is STANDING ORDER, we kindly ask that members please modify these payments if your renewal is AFTER 1st October 2025, as we have no access to these payments to perform the increase.
And finally, we will be removing the PayPal payment option from the membership system, PayPal costs us twice the amount of fees that our card payment provider charges us. Also, PayPal’s systems cause us (mainly me) no end of problems with duplicated payments, delayed responses causing members to make multiple payments, in other words they are costing us money and time with no benefit. Our card payment provider Stripe has been very reliable and has been our only payment method in the store since its inception 8 years ago.
Kevin Baker - DOC GB Membership Secretary