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West Midlands

Stoke-on-Trent Central

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

Health deprivation: bottom 3.7%. Number of health-focused charities: 169.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
1 GP for every 2,727 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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Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

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

crime
74/543
Bottom 20%
health
24/543
Bottom 10%
income
72/543
Bottom 20%
housing
460/543
education
40/543
Bottom 10%
employment
64/543
Bottom 20%
environment
104/543
Bottom 20%

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

Identified resource gaps

health HIGH
Rank 24/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
169 health-focused charities, 1992 employees
GP ratio: 1:2727 (above 1:2000 threshold)
education HIGH
Rank 40/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
219 education-focused charities, 2261 employees
crime HIGH
Rank 74/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
income MODERATE
Rank 72/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
99 income-focused charities, 486 employees
employment MODERATE
Rank 64/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
67 employment-focused charities, 402 employees
environment MODERATE
Rank 104/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
115 environment-focused charities, 1378 employees

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

423 registered charities

423
Charities
£4,159,340
Grants to HQ'd charities
3,022
Employees
13,248
Volunteers
20.3%
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

THE MID-CHESHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST (EXPENDABLE FUNDS) COMMON INVESTMENT FUND
HELEN MARY HOGG BEQUEST

56 staff
BLURTON FAMILY GROUP
THE FORESTERS HERITAGE TRUST
DEBRE SELAM SAINT URAEL ERITREAN ORTHODOX TEWAHDO CHURCH
ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS STAFFORDSHIRE NORTH BRANCH CIO
LAUNCH IT STOKE-ON-TRENT
NEWCASTLE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT
MIDDLEPORT MATTERS COMMUNITY TRUST
THE CARRIE POWER FOUNDATION

GP and primary care

12
GP practices
42
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,727
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 527 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Stoke-on-Trent Central, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 17,000
Transport 8,900
Social Care 5,250
Education 5,000
Construction 2,125
Environment / Green 615

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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