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East Midlands

Leicester West

1st decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
48
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What the data shows

Crime deprivation: bottom 0.9%. Number of crime-focused charities: 0.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
1 GP for every 2,472 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
6/543
Bottom 10%
health
102/543
Bottom 20%
income
79/543
Bottom 20%
housing
61/543
Bottom 20%
education
37/543
Bottom 10%
employment
119/543
environment
171/543

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

Identified resource gaps

crime CRITICAL
Rank 6/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
education HIGH
Rank 37/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
336 education-focused charities, 2921 employees
income MODERATE
Rank 79/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
183 income-focused charities, 873 employees
health MODERATE
Rank 102/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
272 health-focused charities, 1812 employees
GP ratio: 1:2472 (above 1:2000 threshold)
housing MODERATE
Rank 61/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
46 housing-focused charities, 503 employees
employment LOW
Rank 119/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
103 employment-focused charities, 694 employees
environment LOW
Rank 171/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
132 environment-focused charities, 604 employees

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

625 registered charities

625
Charities
£11,411,733
Grants to HQ'd charities
3,754
Employees
23,321
Volunteers
16.2%
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

ELDERLY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES CHARITY

3 staff
EAST MIDLAND BAPTIST CAPITAL PROJECT FUND
LEICESTERSHIRE MIXED HERITAGE FORUM
AL MARKAZ AL ISLAAMI WOOD GREEN
HUMAN KIND
MARANATHA COMMUNITY CHURCH OF JESUS
WOODLEIGH COMMUNITY LIFELINE
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PHILIP LEICESTER
BE BOLD BE YOU FOUNDATION
THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD - REHOBOTH

GP and primary care

17
GP practices
53
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,472
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 272 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Leicester West, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 7,000
Education 4,000
Transport 2,300
Social Care 2,250
Construction 1,635
Environment / Green 650

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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