Drawing on his own professional experience, Alan Twelvetrees addresses the needs of students, field-level community workers and managers. Both theory and practice are described in a highly readable and honest way and the updated fourth edition of this 
bestseller includes placing community work at the centre of neighbourhood renewal.

What is Community Work?
Planning for Effective Community Work
Helping Set up and Run Community Groups
Dealing with Practical issues in Community Groups
Survival, Personal Development and Reflective Practice
Social Planning Approaches to Community Work
Community Work, Social Change and Broad Based Organising
Advanced Practice
Specialist Community Work
Community Work and Public Policy
Conclusions

ALAN TWELVETREES has been a community worker, a community work lecturer, a manager of community workers, and a children and young people strategy manger. He has published widely in the fields of community work, community organizations and community economic development.