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West Midlands

Telford

3rd decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 3,308 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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But here is what the data shows — and Telford could be next.

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Telford 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
162/543
health
98/543
Bottom 20%
income
118/543
housing
236/543
education
91/543
Bottom 20%
employment
114/543
environment
530/543

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

Identified resource gaps

health MODERATE
Rank 98/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
139 health-focused charities, 2262 employees
GP ratio: 1:3308 (above 1:2000 threshold)
education MODERATE
Rank 91/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
183 education-focused charities, 1818 employees
crime MODERATE
Rank 162/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
income LOW
Rank 118/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
68 income-focused charities, 410 employees
employment LOW
Rank 114/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
50 employment-focused charities, 541 employees
housing LOW
Rank 236/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
15 housing-focused charities, 535 employees

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

360 registered charities

360
Charities
£5,538,554
Grants to HQ'd charities
3,118
Employees
12,140
Volunteers
25.1%
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

JOHN WHITE
THE IRONBRIDGE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT

247 staff
D A HILL FUND
COMMUNITY MOBILITY TRANSPORT (TELFORD AND WREKIN)

32 staff
TELFORD & WREKIN DISABILITY ACTION
THE OLD BEN HOMES

7 staff
ST PETER'S BRATTON SCHOOL FUND
BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS CONNECTION
TELFORD MUSIC TRUST
REMNANT OF GRACE FELLOWSHIP CENTRE

GP and primary care

8
GP practices
40
FQ FTE GPs
1:3,308
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 1108 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Telford, by sector

Sector Employees
Transport 4,200
Education 3,500
Social Care 1,800
NHS / Healthcare 1,750
Construction 1,575
Environment / Green 840

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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