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East Midlands

Gainsborough

5th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
26
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What the data shows

Housing deprivation: bottom 6.8%. Number of housing-focused charities: 126.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
1 GP for every 2,280 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
471/543
health
297/543
income
363/543
housing
44/543
Bottom 10%
education
341/543
employment
274/543
environment
302/543

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

Identified resource gaps

housing HIGH
Rank 44/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
126 housing-focused charities, 1789 employees

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

2429 registered charities

2,429
Charities
£13,223,587
Grants to HQ'd charities
7,895
Employees
46,889
Volunteers
21.6%
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

LINCOLN FREEMENS CHARITY (1915) FUND
THOMAS KETTLEBOROUGH
IDA BOWEN BEQUEST
LAND NEAR ROMAN BANK (ALGARKIRK SHARE)
JOHNSON CENTENARY TRUST
SIR RICHARD CUST
POOR'S MONEY
SALT MARSH ALLOTMENT
MARY ANN ANDERSON HILL
THE BISHOP'S ALMSHOUSES ENDOWMENT FUND

GP and primary care

10
GP practices
37
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,280
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 80 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Gainsborough, by sector

Sector Employees
Construction 3,100
Education 3,000
Social Care 1,950
NHS / Healthcare 1,500
Transport 875
Environment / Green 285

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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