Charging Grants Ending Soon

In recent years the Government have been supporting both individuals and businesses to transition to EVs, is through Charging Schemes / Grants. Below we have compiled a list of chargepoint grants, using the UK Government's Grant Service, which are closing soon. At the time of writing the below grants were due to close on 31 March 2025, 11:59pm. This has since been extended, and these grants are now due to close on 31 March 2026.

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Electric vehicle chargepoint grant for renters and flat owners

The grant provides electric vehicle (EV) drivers who are renters or own a flat with support towards the costs of the purchase and installation of EV charge points.

An electric vehicle (EV) chargepoint grant can help towards the cost of installing an electric vehicle chargepoint socket at your property.

You can get 75% off the cost to buy and install a socket, up to a maximum of £350.

You can apply for this grant if you either:

own and live in a flat
rent any residential property (this includes properties under the shared ownership scheme)

You must own an eligible vehicle and your home must have its own private off-street parking space and have agined landlord's permission to have a chargepoint installed.

Landlords and social housing providers can also qualify with a limit of 200 applications per year. The applicant must be a registered business or a public authority.

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Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant for Households with On-Street Parking

The grant provides electric vehicle (EV) drivers with support towards the costs of the purchase and installation of EV chargepoints at residential properties if they are also installing a cross-pavement charging solution (e.g. a cable channel).You can get 75% off the cost to buy and install a socket, up to a maximum of £350.

You can apply for this grant if you:

Have not already installed your chargepoint (as this grant cannot be backdated)
Own or rent a residential property in which you live
Will install a cross-pavement charging solution alongside the chargepoint (for you to be eligible for this grant the cross-pavement solution must not be a temporary solution, such as cable covers or mats which can be placed on top of a cable)
Do not have private and exclusive access to off-street parking such as a driveway, garage or residential car park
Have adequate on-street parking
Have permission from your local highways authority for the installation of the cross-pavement charging solution. You must also declare in your application that you will obtain planning permissions as required by your local planning authority
Own or are responsible for an eligible vehicle

The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles will publish guidance for local authorities in England on implementation of cross-pavement solutions shortly. In the interim this should not preclude local authorities from granting permissions for installation of cross-pavement solutions.

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Electric vehicle chargepoint and infrastructure grants for landlords

Grants for landlords to install electric vehicle chargepoints and supporting infrastructure in rental and leasehold properties.

There are two grants you can get for installing chargepoints for electric vehicles at a property you own.

Electric vehicle (EV) chargepoint grant

An EV chargepoint grant gives you money off the cost of installing an electric vehicle chargepoint socket.

You can get 75% off the cost to buy and install a socket, up to a maximum of £350 per socket.

You can receive up to 200 grants a year for residential properties, and a further 100 for commercial properties.

Electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure grant

An EV infrastructure grant gives you money off the cost of wider building and installation work that’s needed to install multiple chargepoint sockets. The work can be for sockets you want to install now and in the future. For example, an EV infrastructure grant can cover things like wiring and posts.You can get 75% off the cost of the work up to a maximum of £30,000. The amount depends on how many parking spaces the work covers.

You can get:

up to £350 per chargepoint socket installed
up to £500 per parking space enabled with supporting infrastructure

You can receive up to 30 grants each financial year for installing infrastructure in residential carparks.

You cannot apply for the infrastructure grant if you’re a commercial landlord.

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Workplace Charging Scheme

The Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) is a voucher-based scheme designed to provide eligible applicants with support towards the upfront costs of the purchase and installation of EV chargepoints. The contribution is limited to 75% of purchase and installation costs, up to a maximum of £350 for each socket, up to a maximum of 40 across all sites for each applicant. The Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) is available to registered businesses, charities and public sector organisations that have dedicated off-street parking.

In addition to the £350 per socket, the WCS will also be able to provide additional help for small and medium-sized enterprises (less than 250 employees) to provide their staff or fleet car parks with EV chargepoints.

The additional grant monies will provide up to £15,000 per building towards the cost of installing chargepoints, with a maximum of 5 grants available.
The amount of grant available will depend on how many parking bays are being provisioned with either a chargepoint socket (up to £850 available per bay) or supporting infrastructure for a chargepoint to be installed at a later date (up to £500 available per bay).
The business location must have associated private parking. There is no limit as to how many chargepoint sockets can be installed at each site (within the overall number of grants available). A minimum of 5 bays must be provisioned, at least one of which must have a working chargepoint.

The installation of a chargepoint at an employee's home doesn't attract benefit-in-kind taxation so long as the chargepoint is used to charge a company vehicle.

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Workplace Charging Scheme for state-funded education institutions

Grant for eligible state-funded education institutes to provide support towards the costs of the purchase, installation and infrastructure of electric vehicle chargepoints.

This grant is for state-funded schools and education institutions to install electric vehicle chargepoint sockets at their site(s).   

You can get 75% off the cost to buy and install chargepoints up to a maximum of: 

£2500 per socket 
40 sockets across all sites (this includes any applications made previously through the Workplace Charging Scheme)

Successful applicants will receive a voucher that is valid for 180 days from the date of issue. The installation must be completed within this time.

You must use an authorised installer to install eligible commercial chargepoints. 

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Electric vehicle infrastructure grant for staff and fleets

The grant provides small and medium-sized businesses money off the cost of installing electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints and supporting infrastructure for their staff and fleet vehicles.

This grant is for small and medium-sized businesses.

An EV infrastructure grant gives you money off the cost of wider building and installation work that’s needed to install multiple chargepoint sockets.

The work can be for sockets you want to install now and in the future. For example, an EV infrastructure grant can cover things like wiring and posts.

The grant covers 75% of the cost of the work, up to a maximum of £15,000. You can get: