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West Midlands

Coventry East

2nd decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
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What the data shows

Education deprivation: bottom 6.0%. Number of education-focused charities: 542.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
1 GP for every 2,574 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)

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Your councillors

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Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

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

crime
71/543
Bottom 20%
health
58/543
Bottom 20%
income
49/543
Bottom 10%
housing
214/543
education
39/543
Bottom 10%
employment
51/543
Bottom 10%
environment
169/543

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

Identified resource gaps

income HIGH
Rank 49/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
257 income-focused charities, 1727 employees
employment HIGH
Rank 51/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
172 employment-focused charities, 1267 employees
education HIGH
Rank 39/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
542 education-focused charities, 4450 employees
crime HIGH
Rank 71/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
health MODERATE
Rank 58/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
394 health-focused charities, 5350 employees
GP ratio: 1:2574 (above 1:2000 threshold)
housing LOW
Rank 214/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
74 housing-focused charities, 1602 employees
environment LOW
Rank 169/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
254 environment-focused charities, 1105 employees

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

993 registered charities

993
Charities
£18,393,396
Grants to HQ'd charities
8,349
Employees
38,240
Volunteers
21.9%
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

WESTWOOD CHARITY FOR THE NEEDY SICK
REVEREND JOHN WILLIAM KIDDLE
ST JAMES THE LESS CHURCH FUND

356 staff
PERSEHOUSE PENSIONS FUND
MYTON HAMLET HOSPICE TRUST

308 staff
RING AND RIDE WEST MIDLANDS LIMITED

921 staff
CHRIST THE KING PLAYSCHOOL COVENTRY
TRUST PROPERTY ADMINISTERED ICW BEARWOOD GOSPEL HALL
THE GEORGE ELIOT NHS TRUST (EXPENDABLE FUNDS) COMMON INVESTMENT FUND
MUSLIM KHALIFA SUNNAT JAMAT (WOLVERHAMPTON AND BILSTON)

GP and primary care

23
GP practices
76
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,574
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 374 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Coventry East, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 13,000
Transport 3,505
Education 3,500
Social Care 3,000
Construction 1,545
Environment / Green 480

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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