Non-Negotiables and Open Choices

What could this idea change?

The work is designed to produce a completed delivery and evidence pack supporting a continue, adapt or stop decision; the central local boundary is that consultation must show who contributes and who decides, and no unconfirmed outcome, partnership or resource may be promised.

A simple way to start

1. Write the decision brief for Non-Negotiables and Open Choices: define which purpose, priorities and trade-offs will guide the next twelve months, the starting evidence, people affected, local authority, resource limit, success signals and stop conditions. Who could lead it: Club board sponsor and renewal lead
2. Invite members with varied experiences and affected community partners where appropriate, show what is open or fixed, make access practical and record trade-offs and minority views. Apply this specifically to Non-Negotiables and Open Choices and record which relevant experiences or users are still missing. Who could lead it: Club board sponsor and renewal lead with the access and privacy contacts
3. Build and test a bounded 90-day initiative with a clear outcome, participant choices, safeguards and decision date for Non-Negotiables and Open Choices; complete the Non-Negotiables and Open Choices Initiative Delivery Blueprint, rehearse the boundary wording and confirm who may decide, refer, pause, recover or close the work. Who could lead it: Facilitator and workstream owner
4. Use a time-bounded change with named authority, capacity and stop conditions; compare evidence with the starting point and make unfinished work, unintended effects and resource pressure visible. Capture only the evidence needed to judge whether Non-Negotiables and Open Choices advances a shared practical direction. Who could lead it: Facilitator and workstream owner
5. Compare the evidence with the starting point, validate meaning with affected participants or users, record gaps and unintended effects and prepare a completed delivery and evidence pack supporting a continue, adapt or stop decision without overstating what the trial proves. Who could lead it: Facilitator and workstream owner with an independent reviewer

What should we look for?

• Review Non-Negotiables and Open Choices after 90 days. Look for whether members can explain the chosen direction, understand the trade-offs and see their own part in it, and write down one decision the evidence supports.
• Non-Negotiables and Open Choices produces a completed delivery and evidence pack supporting a continue, adapt or stop decision by the promised decision date, with evidence limitations, participation gaps and unintended effects stated.
• People affected can explain the purpose, their choices, the boundary and how to raise an access, privacy, safety or governance concern.
• The trial shows whether a shared practical direction improved from the recorded starting point without shifting hidden workload, risk or exclusion elsewhere.
• Every accepted action has an owner, due date and completion evidence, and the club records a reasoned continue, adapt, refer, scale or stop decision.

Before we say yes

• Does it fit a real local need?
• Can people take part safely and fairly?
• Are the facts, permissions and Rotary branding right?
• Who will lead it, and when will we review it?