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South West

Glastonbury and Somerton

5th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
25
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What the data shows

Housing deprivation: bottom 1.7%. Number of housing-focused charities: 111.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission

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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
426/543
health
393/543
income
285/543
housing
11/543
Bottom 10%
education
276/543
employment
293/543
environment
158/543

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

Identified resource gaps

housing HIGH
Rank 11/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
111 housing-focused charities, 6443 employees
environment LOW
Rank 158/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
771 environment-focused charities, 3206 employees

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

2564 registered charities

2,564
Charities
£12,170,017
Grants to HQ'd charities
17,382
Employees
67,788
Volunteers
20.3%
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

THOMAS LANDSEY
MELLS CHURCH LANDS
UNKNOWN DONOR (OTHERWISE POOR'S MONEY)
GIFTS OF DONORS UNKNOWN
HENRY PARSONS
MALTWOOD FUND

1 staff
RICHARD HAYWARD'S CHARITY FOR POOR
SILAS FEAVER
THE KESTEVEN RECREATION GROUND MAINTENANCE FUND
THOMAS PONSFORD

GP and primary care

12
GP practices
53
FQ FTE GPs
1:1,991
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). See methodology.

People working in Glastonbury and Somerton, by sector

Sector Employees
Education 4,000
Construction 1,850
Social Care 1,500
NHS / Healthcare 1,250
Transport 1,050
Environment / Green 225

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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