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South East

Weald of Kent

5th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
26
Blocked

What the data shows

Housing deprivation: bottom 1.5%. Number of housing-focused charities: 221.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
1 GP for every 2,240 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)

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Weald of Kent 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
332/543
health
406/543
income
339/543
housing
10/543
Bottom 10%
education
234/543
employment
333/543
environment
128/543

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

Identified resource gaps

housing HIGH
Rank 10/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
221 housing-focused charities, 4026 employees
education LOW
Rank 234/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
2220 education-focused charities, 17536 employees
environment LOW
Rank 128/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
1148 environment-focused charities, 2681 employees

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

4624 registered charities

4,624
Charities
£39,941,544
Grants to HQ'd charities
25,612
Employees
112,739
Volunteers
14.5%
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

MARY MASTERS
ELIZABETH ANN FORREST
UNKNOWN DONOR
GEORGE SMEED FOR COAL AND BREAD
THOMAS STANLEY
BETENSONS ALMSHOUSES MAINTENANCE FUND
SARA GODFREY
THE SHORNE CHARITY OF SIR THOMAS SMYTHE FOR THE POOR
FORDWICH TOWN TRUST
SIDNEY AND LILIAN HOWLAND TRUST (C.H.) N0 2 ACCOUNT

GP and primary care

11
GP practices
46
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,240
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 40 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Weald of Kent, by sector

Sector Employees
Education 3,500
Construction 3,000
Social Care 2,050
NHS / Healthcare 1,500
Transport 1,100
Environment / Green 350

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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