No UK public-interest hosting backbone (Framasoft equivalent)

France has Framasoft and the CHATONS hosting collective, and Germany procures openDesk and Nextcloud for its public sector. The UK equivalents are micro-scale: Webarchitects Co-operative in Sheffield and Autonomic, whose Co-op Cloud platform was built precisely to let small hosts offer federated services, loosely networked through CoTech. No funder backs a UK alliance offering CryptPad, Nextcloud, Matrix and mailing lists at charity-affordable prices with credible service levels, so UK charities default to discounted Google and Microsoft nonprofit licences, deepening the dependence the sovereignty stack is meant to reduce.

The coordination layer is the easiest to fix: the software exists, UK operators exist, and demand exists. What is missing is modest institutional capital and aggregation. Every charity moved off Big Tech suites is an immediate, measurable sovereignty gain.

A philanthropically seeded UK community-hosting alliance built on Co-op Cloud and Webarchitects-type members, with a shared security baseline, service levels and nonprofit pricing, plus eligibility for it in charity digital-funding schemes.

// Build now: First artefact: alliance charter with shared security baseline, SLA and member directory across existing co-op hosts; philanthropically seeded.

Software, UK operators and charity demand all exist and the fix is cheap aggregation nobody funds, and no dated trigger makes this year decisive.