This day workshop has been developed out of work carried out in London and the South East where groups came together and co-designed a functioning regional network. This network developed through using a series of exercises to come up with ideas and plans and it is these exercises that form the basis of the workshop. London now has a really thriving network that meets regularly, shares information and has arranged events together. We want to help other networks to develop based on the great stuff that has happened there to create thriving networks throughout England.

Facilitators Mike Thomas (Transition Network) and Richard Couldrey (Transition Town Tooting) helped to develop the London and SE hub. They believe that Transition groups in a region will know how best to define what their regional network does and how it functions. This workshop explores whether there is energy for a regional network, what its function should be and how to develop it.