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Bolton South and Walkden

1st decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
60
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The numbers

What the data shows

Crime deprivation: bottom 2.0%. Number of crime-focused charities: 0.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
Blocked score: 60/100. High need, low resources.
Blocked Britain composite index
1 GP for every 2,218 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)
Blocked Britain episodes

Stories from Bolton South and Walkden

Episode 275 · NHS / Healthcare

Roisin's Story

Meet Roisin, 26, from Bolton South and Walkden in the North West. She wanted to train as a nurse to serve her community's healthcare needs, …
Episode 17 · NHS / Healthcare

Tanya's Story

Tanya, 31, from Bolton South and Walkden in the North West, wanted to train as a nurse to serve her community's healthcare needs. But Health …
Local representatives

Your councillors

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

Deprivation profile

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

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

crime
13/543
Bottom 10%
health
43/543
Bottom 10%
income
22/543
Bottom 10%
housing
250/543
education
30/543
Bottom 10%
employment
25/543
Bottom 10%
environment
93/543
Bottom 20%

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

Resource analysis

Identified resource gaps

crime CRITICAL
Rank 13/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
income HIGH
Rank 22/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
446 income-focused charities, 2771 employees
employment HIGH
Rank 25/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
193 employment-focused charities, 1920 employees
health HIGH
Rank 43/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
571 health-focused charities, 6015 employees
GP ratio: 1:2218 (above 1:2000 threshold)
education HIGH
Rank 30/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
745 education-focused charities, 7291 employees
environment MODERATE
Rank 93/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
258 environment-focused charities, 2142 employees
housing LOW
Rank 250/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
64 housing-focused charities, 2582 employees

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

Charity landscape

1356 registered charities

1,356
Charities
£23,568,145
Grants to HQ'd charities
10,894
Employees
40,624
Volunteers
25.8%
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

NON-ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITY OF DAME DOROTHY LEGH
HUMPHREY BOOTH THE ELDER

8 staff
GEORGE POOLE GASS MEMORIAL FUND
CRAWSHAWBOOTH MEETING HOUSE AND BURIAL GROUND
THE REVEREND J.N. MITCHELL M.A. B.D. AWARD
HELEN MARY HOGG BEQUEST

56 staff
BOOTHSTOWN PROJECT COMMITTEE
WESTWOOD FORUM
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST STAFF AMENITIES FUND
THE COTTAGE HOMES MOORES FAMILY FUND

127 staff
Healthcare capacity

GP and primary care

25
GP practices
71
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,218
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 18 patients above that. See methodology.

Labour market

People working in Bolton South and Walkden, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 8,000
Education 6,000
Construction 1,950
Social Care 1,800
Transport 1,350
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

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