Are you curious about what SENSE is and does?
Sign up for the next SENSE Orientation session on Thursday 5 March via Zoom.


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.

SENSE Orientation

OrietationAre you new to SENSE and looking to learn more about what the Society has to offer? Or are you a long-standing member looking for a refresher of what’s available and how to get the most out of SENSE? Either way, we invite you to join this SENSE Orientation session!

Date: 7 February 2024
Time: 19:30 - 21:00 CET
Location: Zoom

During this session, we’ll provide a brief history of SENSE and introduce you to some of the volunteers who help run the Society, before moving on to the many benefits of membership, including Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and the Mentoring Programme. We’ll then spend some time taking you through the various pages of the members’ section of the website, including the ever-popular Forum, the Events calendar and the Library.

Feel free to join us even if you are not yet a member of SENSE. The Zoom link will be provided to all registered attendees the day of the event, so be sure to register using the button at the top of the page.

We’re currently holding these sessions twice a year, so if you can’t attend this one, you’ll have another chance later this year. And for a review of a previous session, see Tomas Brogan’s blog post ‘Four things I learnt about SENSE as a new member’.