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Blackpool South

1st decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
65
Blocked

What the data shows

Health deprivation: bottom 0.5%. Number of health-focused charities: 123.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
Blocked score: 65/100. High need, low resources.
Blocked Britain composite index
1 GP for every 2,289 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.
NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Blackpool South yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

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

crime
10/543
Bottom 10%
health
3/543
Bottom 10%
income
45/543
Bottom 10%
housing
432/543
education
34/543
Bottom 10%
employment
16/543
Bottom 10%
environment
20/543
Bottom 10%

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

Identified resource gaps

crime CRITICAL
Rank 10/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
income HIGH
Rank 45/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
66 income-focused charities, 501 employees
employment HIGH
Rank 16/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
43 employment-focused charities, 678 employees
health HIGH
Rank 3/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
123 health-focused charities, 1628 employees
GP ratio: 1:2289 (above 1:2000 threshold)
education HIGH
Rank 34/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
121 education-focused charities, 1353 employees
environment HIGH
Rank 20/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
56 environment-focused charities, 214 employees

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

261 registered charities

261
Charities
£4,394,471
Grants to HQ'd charities
2,176
Employees
4,811
Volunteers
32.7%
Govt funded
MEDIUM
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

THE ELMSLIE FUND

10 staff
BANGLADESH WELFARE ASSOCIATION BLACKPOOL, WYRE AND FYLDE
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FOR LANCASHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE TRUST

14 staff
THE QUEEN'S LANCASHIRE REGIMENT COTTAGE HOMES CHARITY
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LANCASHIRE TRUST
SPEAK SUICIDE PREVENTION
BLACKPOOLS VOICE
LANCASHIRE EDUCATIONAL ARTS FOUNDATION
BLACKPOOL HERITAGE AND MUSEUM TRUST
GEORGES FUNDAYS

GP and primary care

12
GP practices
57
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,289
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). This constituency is 89 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Blackpool South, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 10,000
Social Care 4,000
Education 3,000
Transport 1,525
Construction 1,325
Environment / Green 350

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

All data on this page is drawn from official public sources. Blocked Britain has no political affiliation. It is funded by no organisation.