InclusiNews · Macro Brief 03

Reverse the receipts.

Most charity-sector storytelling reads bottom-up: one £1 donation becomes something. We're reading it the other way. £138 billion sitting at the top. Who controls each step it has to travel down.

Step 1 — top of the ladder

£138bn

Liquid wealth held by the UK's top 1%. Cash. Shares. Doesn't move on its own. Controlled by family offices, HNWs, pension funds. Most CIC founders will never speak to anyone in this layer.

Step 2 — what it costs to fix it

£4.2bn

Annual UK small-charity funding shortfall. The number is 3% of the £138bn ceiling. Filling it doesn't require a revolution — it requires plumbing.

Step 3 — what's actually moving

£482K

What InclusiFund moved into grassroots hands this year — across CICs, charities, partnership pots. 9,000× short of the gap. One organisation, one year. Now multiply.

Step 4 — what it looks like at ground

£16,500

A real grant. Earth Village CIC submitted to the National Lottery last week — a full year of community programming in Nottingham. Concrete. Specific. Already moving.

Step 5 — at human scale

£500

A UK family of four's monthly food shop. Roughly. One pound became five hundred, in the receipts ladder. The same path the £138bn would have to take, gate by gate, to land here.

Step 6 — the start

£1

One pound, dropped into one bucket, by one person. Every fund in the country starts this way. Including yours.

The picture, complete

£138bn → £1.
Same chain. Both directions.

Most founders only see step 6 and step 4. They're applying to grants without ever looking at where those grants came from. InclusiNews shows you the whole chain — every morning.

Read the receipts

Seven numbers.
One ledger.

The receipts page is the static version. Take 90 seconds. Scroll through it. Then read today's macro brief — and see where the chain is moving this week.