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East Thanet

2nd decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
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The numbers

What the data shows

Crime deprivation: bottom 3.1%. Number of crime-focused charities: 0.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
1 GP for every 2,411 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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Local representatives

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for East Thanet 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
20/543
Bottom 10%
health
126/543
income
99/543
Bottom 20%
housing
185/543
education
108/543
Bottom 20%
employment
65/543
Bottom 20%
environment
180/543

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

Resource analysis

Identified resource gaps

crime CRITICAL
Rank 20/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
income MODERATE
Rank 99/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
661 income-focused charities, 4025 employees
employment MODERATE
Rank 65/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
489 employment-focused charities, 1821 employees
education MODERATE
Rank 108/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
2211 education-focused charities, 17533 employees
health LOW
Rank 126/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
1465 health-focused charities, 10392 employees
GP ratio: 1:2411 (above 1:2000 threshold)
housing LOW
Rank 185/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
219 housing-focused charities, 4026 employees
environment LOW
Rank 180/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
1139 environment-focused charities, 2671 employees

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

Charity landscape

4605 registered charities

4,605
Charities
£39,847,144
Grants to HQ'd charities
25,603
Employees
112,479
Volunteers
14.5%
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

MARY MASTERS
ELIZABETH ANN FORREST
UNKNOWN DONOR
GEORGE SMEED FOR COAL AND BREAD
THOMAS STANLEY
BETENSONS ALMSHOUSES MAINTENANCE FUND
SARA GODFREY
THE SHORNE CHARITY OF SIR THOMAS SMYTHE FOR THE POOR
FORDWICH TOWN TRUST
SIDNEY AND LILIAN HOWLAND TRUST (C.H.) N0 2 ACCOUNT
Healthcare capacity

GP and primary care

11
GP practices
51
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,411
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 211 patients above that. See methodology.

Labour market

People working in East Thanet, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 4,500
Education 3,500
Social Care 2,500
Construction 1,550
Transport 1,425
Environment / Green 60

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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