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Manchester Central

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

Crime deprivation: bottom 0.6%. Number of crime-focused charities: 0.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
1 GP for every 2,816 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)

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Manchester Central yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

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

crime
4/543
Bottom 10%
health
23/543
Bottom 10%
income
91/543
Bottom 20%
housing
111/543
education
85/543
Bottom 20%
employment
69/543
Bottom 20%
environment
97/543
Bottom 20%

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

Identified resource gaps

crime CRITICAL
Rank 4/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
health HIGH
Rank 23/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
916 health-focused charities, 6916 employees
GP ratio: 1:2816 (above 1:2000 threshold)
income MODERATE
Rank 91/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
717 income-focused charities, 4716 employees
employment MODERATE
Rank 69/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
397 employment-focused charities, 2013 employees
education MODERATE
Rank 85/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
1224 education-focused charities, 8550 employees
environment MODERATE
Rank 97/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
524 environment-focused charities, 3301 employees
housing LOW
Rank 111/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
115 housing-focused charities, 1431 employees

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

2256 registered charities

2,256
Charities
£40,431,893
Grants to HQ'd charities
13,978
Employees
61,246
Volunteers
19.7%
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

GEORGE MARSHALL
THE JAMES CROSS FUND
GEORGE POOLE GASS MEMORIAL FUND
NAYLORS TENEMENT
MANCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CARE

12 staff
BOOTHSTOWN PROJECT COMMITTEE
JAFFARIA ISLAMIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
THE ST STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
WESTWOOD FORUM
REACHE NORTHWEST

GP and primary care

19
GP practices
68
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,816
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 616 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Manchester Central, by sector

Sector Employees
Education 10,000
Transport 9,265
Social Care 5,500
Construction 4,750
NHS / Healthcare 4,500
Environment / Green 150

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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