This is the story of a King's Fund project and of the attempts of Haringey health authority to improve the services it offers to its multi-racial community. Haringey approached the challenge by appointing an ethnic minorities development officer whose job it was to help develop an equal opportunities policy. The report describes what the development worker was able to accomplish; outlining some of the tasks undertaken, the obstacles overcome, and some of the wider issues involved. It is hoped that Haringey's experiences will prove useful to other health authorities seeking to meet 'the management challenge of ethnic minority health'.