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North West

Rossendale and Darwen

2nd decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
33
Blocked

What the data shows

Environment deprivation: bottom 10.0%. Number of environment-focused charities: 834.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Rossendale and Darwen 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
136/543
health
111/543
income
168/543
housing
161/543
education
230/543
employment
120/543
environment
65/543
Bottom 20%

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

Identified resource gaps

crime MODERATE
Rank 136/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
environment MODERATE
Rank 65/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
834 environment-focused charities, 2663 employees
income LOW
Rank 168/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
583 income-focused charities, 5193 employees
employment LOW
Rank 120/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
411 employment-focused charities, 4208 employees
health LOW
Rank 111/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
1192 health-focused charities, 9926 employees
GP ratio: 1:2085 (above 1:2000 threshold)
education LOW
Rank 230/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
1730 education-focused charities, 11351 employees
housing LOW
Rank 161/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
169 housing-focused charities, 4262 employees

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

3344 registered charities

3,344
Charities
£202,019,030
Grants to HQ'd charities
17,487
Employees
82,426
Volunteers
22.6%
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

CAMPBELL CHARITY
RESIDENCE FOR MINISTER AND OTHER PURPOSES IN CONNEXION WITH THE ANSDELL UNITARIAN CHAPEL
GEORGE HAWORTH
MANCKNOLLS WALTON COTTAGE HOMES
THE JAMES CROSS FUND
ELLEN BOULTON
ROBERT RIGBYE
HUMPHREY BOOTH THE ELDER

8 staff
ELIZA JANE DIXON BEQUEST
FUND KNOWN AS DUGDALE'S CHARITY

GP and primary care

10
GP practices
45
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,085
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 Rossendale and Darwen, by sector

Sector Employees
Education 3,000
Social Care 2,250
Construction 1,640
NHS / Healthcare 1,500
Transport 900
Environment / Green 210

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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