• Keep up to date

    A newsletter from SENSE drops into members’ e-mailboxes once a month. Each newsletter brims with news about the society, training opportunities from sister societies, and notices of various kinds. There are also handy links to upcoming SENSE events and links to the latest blog posts. And if you haven’t been on social media for a while, the newsletter provides an insight into that as well.

    About three times a month, SENSE sends out notices about upcoming events, society business, and important news from the industry.

    SENSE members who use Facebook and LinkedIn can join SENSE’s members-only Facebook and LinkedIn pages. Around 100 members are on the Facebook group and around 150 members are on the LinkedIn group. SENSE also has a public presence on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, where our social media manager very regularly posts news about SENSE events, events from sister societies, and various other interesting posts related to our industry. These pages are accessible to the public.

  • Get-togethers

    SENSE regularly hosts meetings for members based on region or special interest. These meetings can be in person or online. There are several SIGs (special interest groups), such as one for educators, for medical translators and editors, for academic editors, for starters, etc.

    The society hosts workshops about 3-6 times a year that are open to both members and the public. Some of these are in person, while others are in the form of webinars. Some workshops are interactive, while others feature a guest speaker.

    An established tradition in SENSE is our annual summer social and our annual winter dinner. At these two events, members may bring their partners or a guest. The summer social is usually some kind of touristy outing. The winter dinner may be a formal sit-down or an informal buffet dinner.

  • Reaching out

    Potential clients can use the SENSE freelance register to find suitable freelance translators, editors, interpreters, copywriters, etc. etc. from among SENSE members. The register is right there on SENSE’s public website. Any member of SENSE may join the freelance register for no extra charge.

    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. As a member, you can edit your own profile page via our website and ensure that only the information that you wish to reveal, are visible to other members.

    The society has had a monthly newsletter pretty much since the beginning in 1992. Most of these newsletters have been preserved and can be viewed by members via the website. This is a very interesting way of getting to know the society and its members, or to get new ideas from past events and activities.

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Workshop: Investing for Freelancers

From 23 May 2025 14:30 CEST until 23 May 2025 16:00 CEST
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‘Workshop: Investing for freelancers’
– with Silvie van der Zee and Marianne van Amersfoort-Gerritsen

As freelancers, we have to make our own retirement plan. Just saving money can take a long time because of low interest rates, and you might even lose money because of inflation.

So why not invest some of it? In this presentation, we'll share our personal journey and strategies for investing as a freelancer. We'll explore various investment options, the importance of diversifying, and how to get started with investing.

Join us to discover what we are doing to take control of our financial future as fabulous freelancers.

Date: Friday, 23 May 2025
Time: 14:30 – 16:00, including Q&A
Location: Zoom (we’ll send you the link beforehand)
Cost: SENSE members pay just €25 (make sure you’re logged in first!)

Tickets for non-members are €40. Tickets for SENSE’s sister societies are €30 – please enter the discount code when you register for this event.

Please note: this meeting will not be recorded.


If you are a SENSE member, please log in before registering for this event.

About the speakers

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The Traveling Translator (Utrecht)

Silvie is a passionate traveler! She loves exploring new cultures and marveling at all the beauty that this wide world has to offer. From Croatia to China, from Cuba to Cairns: she’s been there! Over the past years, she’s spent several stretches of time living as a digital nomad all over the Canary Islands. Silvie has even lived in Canada and Spain, which gave her a chance to see the Dutch culture from an outsider’s perspective.

Silvie is specialized in English marketing and e-commerce texts in the travel and tourism sector, with specific expertise in translating ads, direct e-mails, newsletters, website texts, product descriptions for online stores, and promotional texts for holiday accommodations and destinations from English into Dutch.

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Marianne van Amersfoort-Gerritsen
Hanse Translations (Warnsveld)

Marianne is an English to Dutch translator with a Bachelor degree in Translation. She lives in Warnsveld, next to the Hanseatic city of Zutphen, hence her business name Hanse Translations. She has been translating since 2021, after a long career in customer service.

As a foodie and wife of a former chef, Marianne's passion for food reflects her work. She translates marketing texts, culinary recipes and cook books. Because she loves food, she also needs to work out, so running and bodypump are a much needed part of her life.

About four years ago, Marianne started to look into the world of investing. When she became a fabulous freelancer, the need to secure her own financial future grew. After reading a lot about the subject, she has made a plan, and so far, it's going well. By sharing her and Silvie's journey, Marianne hopes to help other fabulous freelancers in creating their own future financial freedom.