Join us for the 2026 SENSE Professional Development Day
on Saturday 31 October 2026 in Ede, Netherlands.



Need an English-language professional to help with a project?

Find someone to write, edit, proofread, index, interpret, report, subtitle, train, transcribe, translate, or teach English.



Browse our events calendar for upcoming webinars, workshops, professional development days and informal get-togethers.



Living in the Netherlands? Doing language work? Working in English?

Join the society for English-language professionals in the Netherlands!

What is SENSE, and what does SENSE do?

SENSE is a society for English-language professionals based in the Netherlands. We are a community of language workers who work from or into English, with a connection to the Netherlands.

Attend informal get-togethers

SENSE regularly hosts meetings (SIGs) for members based on region or special interest. These meetings can be in person or online.

Forum for members only

SENSE's web forum is where members can post questions, give answers, and chat with other members. There is also a jobs category where jobs are posted from potential clients who visited the SENSE website.

Get a mentor to guide you

SENSE has a mentoring programme whereby experienced SENSE members can help inexperienced members for a small fee (subsidized by SENSE).

Event calendar / agenda

Never miss an event! Discover upcoming webinars, workshops and social events on the SENSE Calender, or browse through the ones that you have missed.

Contact other members easily

SENSE members are encouraged to make contact with other members. That is what being in a society is all about. All SENSE members can search for or browse the list of current SENSE members.

Read our regular blog

SENSE members and guest authors post meeting reports and interesting articles on the SENSE Blog. It also represents an opportunity to budding copywriters to get their name on screen.

Guidelines for student texts

SENSE has prepared its own "Guidelines for Proofreading Student Texts" and a "Form to Confirm Proofreading Services". Download them free of charge.

Best practices

The Dutch Convenant explains what freelance translators and translation agencies in the Netherlands typically consider good practice in their dealings with each other. Visit sense-online.nl/dutch-covenant.

PEG’s 30th anniversary conference

PEG's 30th anniversary conference 

Online via Zoom

Wednesday 31 May to Thursday 1 June 2023

The Professional Editors' Guild is delighted to announce that as a celebration of 30 years of excellence in editing, they will be staging an online conference next year.

This stellar event in the world of publishing, editing, writing and proofreading will be headlined with the principal theme ‘Professional Editing in the Digital Age’. The online programme will run from the afternoon of Wednesday, 31 May and throughout the day on Thursday, 1 June 2023. It will include many virtual networking and social opportunities, including post-conference activities in the evenings.

From a small informal group of editors intent on exchanging ideas about matters editorial, PEG has gone from strength to strength, with many achievements to celebrate, all in the service of its members. Please diarise these dates. Registration will open early in 2023.

Please consider presenting at the conference. The many challenges inherent in editing and proofreading in a digital age have given rise to a plethora of practical and imaginative solutions. If you’re a language practitioner who has developed and refined your craft in one way or another, or developed solutions, PEG would welcome an opportunity to learn from your experience or expertise in areas such as:

  • Editing, proofreading, revising and related language practice
  • Linguistic issues
  • Tech-related experience
  • Digital marketing and social media
  • Specialist niche editing, such as archaeology, humanities, law, medicine, social sciences, viniculture, zoology
  • Digital nomadism, professional writing, publishing.

If you have any questions about the conference, or want to discuss your proposed talk, please write directly to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

To submit a proposal for a presentation at the conference, please complete the proposal template and email it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Friday, 28 October 2022.

31st May 2023 - 1st Jun 2023
Online via Zoom