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Barrow and Furness

5th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
28
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What the data shows

Environment deprivation: bottom 8.2%. Number of environment-focused charities: 635.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission

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Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime
349/543
health
127/543
income
305/543
housing
392/543
education
275/543
employment
246/543
environment
53/543
Bottom 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Identified resource gaps

environment HIGH
Rank 53/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
635 environment-focused charities, 1407 employees
employment LOW
Rank 246/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
293 employment-focused charities, 1195 employees
health LOW
Rank 127/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
826 health-focused charities, 3510 employees

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

2139 registered charities

2,139
Charities
£203,157,963
Grants to HQ'd charities
6,091
Employees
37,568
Volunteers
20.7%
Govt funded
LOW
Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

NEVILLE HALL CHARITY
THE JAMES CROSS FUND
YOUDALL AND WILKINSON'S DOLE
THOMAS THOMPSON
WESTMORLAND SOCIETY FOR MENTAL HANDICAP CLUB TRUST FUND
JANE RAMSEY'S CHARITY
ANN LANGTON
WILLIAM WALKER
GILES MOORE GIFT
SARAH AGNES ALBRIGHT

GP and primary care

13
GP practices
51
FQ FTE GPs
1:1,927
Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). See methodology.

People working in Barrow and Furness, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 3,500
Education 3,000
Social Care 2,500
Construction 1,450
Transport 1,150
Environment / Green 380

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance
360Giving GrantNav [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
Charity Commission Register [source]
Accessed 2026-03-31
English Indices of Deprivation [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]
Accessed 2026-04-04
Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08

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