ABSTRACT
The above is a briefing for a role play exercise we have used during training workshops for neighbourhood workers. In addition to testing the ability of workers to articulate what it is they do in neighbourhood work, the role play also forces workers to examine the question of how a community group relates to other groups and organisations in the community. The material focuses on the issue of the planning, tactics and techniques that a group can practise and adopt in order to achieve its objectives; in this example it has to know what the meeting is about, find out who is on the trust committee, send them papers in advance, decide who in the delegation is to speak on particular issues and how best to present the argument. It also has to know what role the neighbourhood worker will play in the meeting.
