The UK Evaluation Society is committed to encouraging and supporting the growth and development of national/regional evaluation networks in the UK for a number of reasons:
- As a potential way of increasing the UKES membership base
- As an effective way of delivering a year-round programme of regional workshops, seminars and training events
- As a way of engaging and involving its members and other evaluators in defining and meeting their needs and exchanging information about regional evaluation opportunities
Active networks now exist in Scotland, Wales, the North West, the North East, Yorkshire and Humber, the Midlands, London and the South West. Each of the networks have a key contact person with whom a member of the UKES Council can liaise (currently Bea Jefferson) and a core group (3-5 members of the network) of members who are active in organising network activities and communications.