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East of England

North Bedfordshire

7th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
16
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 2,674 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)
Housing deprivation: bottom 9.1%. Number of housing-focused charities: 65.
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
405/543
health
362/543
income
379/543
housing
59/543
Bottom 20%
education
363/543
employment
423/543
environment
440/543

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

Identified resource gaps

housing MODERATE
Rank 59/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
65 housing-focused charities, 679 employees

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

1527 registered charities

1,527
Charities
£18,138,805
Grants to HQ'd charities
8,032
Employees
49,151
Volunteers
18.1%
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

MARL ALLOTMENT
TURVEY POORS LAND
WIDOWS FUND (REV ROBERT HANCOCK'S CHARITY)
CHARITY OF CATER AND OTHERS KNOWN AS THE CHARITY LANDS (EXCLUSIVE OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION)
TOWN LANDS
CHARLES RICHARDS FOR BREAD AND CLOTHING
THOMAS HAWES (1688)
EATON SOCON NURSING ASSOCIATION
ELIZABETH LANE
POOR BRANCH

GP and primary care

8
GP practices
31
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,674
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 474 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in North Bedfordshire, by sector

Sector Employees
Education 3,000
Construction 2,950
Transport 1,900
NHS / Healthcare 1,750
Social Care 1,600
Environment / Green 385

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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