Skip to main content
Stories Constituencies Map About YouTube Substack Bluesky Twitter/X Podcast RSS
North West

Oldham East and Saddleworth

2nd decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
36
Blocked

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Oldham East and Saddleworth 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
89/543
Bottom 20%
health
96/543
Bottom 20%
income
111/543
housing
156/543
education
103/543
Bottom 20%
employment
109/543
environment
81/543
Bottom 20%

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

Identified resource gaps

crime HIGH
Rank 89/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
health MODERATE
Rank 96/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
300 health-focused charities, 2833 employees
GP ratio: 1:2133 (above 1:2000 threshold)
education MODERATE
Rank 103/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
385 education-focused charities, 3197 employees
environment MODERATE
Rank 81/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
180 environment-focused charities, 1653 employees
income LOW
Rank 111/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
180 income-focused charities, 1126 employees
employment LOW
Rank 109/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
126 employment-focused charities, 958 employees
housing LOW
Rank 156/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
32 housing-focused charities, 612 employees

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

714 registered charities

714
Charities
£18,708,834
Grants to HQ'd charities
5,117
Employees
16,117
Volunteers
29.4%
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

BOOTHSTOWN PROJECT COMMITTEE
THE ST STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
WESTWOOD FORUM
REACHE NORTHWEST
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST STAFF AMENITIES FUND
CLAYTON PLAYING FIELD & RECREATION GROUND
THE COCKCROFT AND WADSWORTH SCHOLARSHIP

115 staff
MIDDLETON CRISIS SUPPORT PROJECT
SHELTERWISE
MY SIDE

GP and primary care

12
GP practices
46
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,133
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 Oldham East and Saddleworth, by sector

Sector Employees
Education 3,500
Transport 2,550
Social Care 2,500
Construction 2,000
NHS / Healthcare 1,500
Environment / Green 315

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

All data on this page is drawn from official public sources. Blocked Britain has no political affiliation. It is funded by no organisation.