No UK public-interest hosting backbone (Framasoft equivalent)

France has Framasoft and the CHATONS hosting collective; Germany procures openDesk/Nextcloud for its public sector. The UK equivalents are micro-scale: Webarchitects Co-operative (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 SLAs, so UK charities default to discounted Google/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, 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/Webarchitects-type members, with a shared security baseline, SLA 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, yet no dated trigger makes acting this year decisive over next.