ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the problems to be encountered by the professional worker who intervenes from the position of a personal or institutional mandate. The hybrid model will be used to demonstrate how the professional role can be shaped by the 'client' constituency in a more purposeful manner. The original model for British community action was taken up from the left- ideological starting point of working class community power. All communities have their special political and social histories and contain within themselves many conflicts, unresolved tensions and competing systems. The responsibility for the organisation's leadership, and for the organiser, is to consolidate the power base, to develop an appropriate public image, and to underpin the organisation with sound financial base. The financial embarrassment faced by the Church of England over disastrous property deals at the end of the UK property boom have obviously been a setback for large scale philanthropy.
