For not-for-profits who don’t have time for consultants who talk in circles.

Most small not-for-profits are doing big work—with limited time, tiny budgets, and a rotating cast of volunteer board members. Governance gets messy. Policies get lost. Strategic plans gather dust. And everyone’s just trying to get through the next grant acquittal without falling over.

That’s where I come in.

I started Plain Sense because I got tired of watching everyday organisations get buried in admin, acronyms, and advice that didn’t make sense.

I’ve spent years in the arts, education leadership, community engagement, and public service roles across regional Australia. I’ve chaired meetings, rewritten constitutions, untangled policies, written strategic plans that actually got used—and I’ve worked with the kind of people who keep the local footy club, gallery, or family support centre running while juggling a million other things.

I know how hard it is to run an organisation when:

• No one’s quite sure what the secretary’s supposed to do

• The constitution was written in 1988

• The board’s full of good people but no one’s been trained

• Someone just said “we’ll lose our funding if we don’t fix this”.

Plain Sense exists to help you fix it—without drama, without condescension, and without costing the earth.