Workplace Charging Scheme
OZEV’s grant towards chargepoints at places of work, for businesses, charities and public sector organisations across the UK.
- Funding
- £26.9m and 72,388 sockets since 2016
- Status
- Open for applications
- Open until 31 March 2027, its final year
- Where
- UK-wide
- Office for Zero Emission Vehicles
About this programme
- What it funds
- Buying and installing chargepoints at places of work
- Who can get it
- Businesses, charities and public sector organisations in the UK that meet the applicant and site criteria
- How it is given
- A voucher towards up to 75% of the costs, at most £500 a socket (£350 before 1 April 2026) and 40 sockets across all of an applicant’s sites; the installer claims it
- Where it stands
- Open until 31 March 2027, its final year
- So far
- £26.9m for 72,388 sockets and supporting infrastructure since late 2016, as at 1 July 2026
- Run by
- The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV), part of the Department for Transport and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Grants by region
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| Region | Funding |
|---|---|
| South East | £3.9m |
| North West | £3.2m |
| East of England | £3.1m |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £2.7m |
| West Midlands | £2.6m |
| East Midlands | £2.5m |
| South West | £2.4m |
| Scotland | £1.9m |
| London | £1.7m |
| North East | £1.1m |
| Wales | £1m |
| Northern Ireland | £448k |
Grant for sockets installed, by the region of the local authority, as at 1 July 2026: £26.7m for 71,917 sockets. The scheme's £26.9m also counts supporting infrastructure. Source: GOV.UK
By local authority
Sources
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.Show the local authorities 360
- Leeds£494k
- North Yorkshire£365k
- Birmingham£310k
- West Northamptonshire£300k
- Buckinghamshire£286k
- Cornwall£282k
- North Northamptonshire£254k
- Sheffield£254k
- Glasgow City£248k
- Milton Keynes£244k
- County Durham£227k
- Wiltshire£227k
- Kirklees£218k
- Bradford£217k
- Wakefield£205k
- Somerset£201k
- Cheshire West and Chester£195k
- Cheshire East£195k
- Manchester£188k
- Warrington£187k
- Stockport£183k
- Trafford£182k
- Peterborough£179k
- South Gloucestershire£173k
- Hillingdon£164k
- East Riding of Yorkshire£158k
- Bristol, City of£156k
- Coventry£153k
- Huntingdonshire£152k
- South Cambridgeshire£151k
- Cherwell£150k
- North West Leicestershire£149k
- City of Edinburgh£148k
- Stockton-on-Tees£146k
- Calderdale£138k
- West Suffolk£137k
- Northumberland£136k
- Solihull£133k
- South Lanarkshire£133k
- East Suffolk£131k
- Salford£129k
- Dudley£128k
- West Berkshire£125k
- Hounslow£123k
- Slough£122k
- Derby£122k
- Barnsley£120k
- Sandwell£120k
- Rotherham£120k
- Stratford-on-Avon£120k
- Cardiff£118k
- Wigan£118k
- Dorset£118k
- Aberdeenshire£118k
- Warwick£117k
- Kingston upon Hull, City of£116k
- Bedford£114k
- Nottingham£114k
- Rochdale£114k
- Sunderland£114k
- Bolton£114k
- Liverpool£113k
- Herefordshire, County of£112k
- North Lanarkshire£111k
- North Somerset£110k
- Leicester£110k
- Doncaster£109k
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole£109k
- Walsall£107k
- Swindon£107k
- Aberdeen City£106k
- Central Bedfordshire£105k
- Shropshire£103k
- Westmorland and Furness£103k
- Wolverhampton£103k
- North Tyneside£102k
- Bury£98k
- Renfrewshire£97k
- Ealing£97k
- Perth and Kinross£96k
- Newcastle upon Tyne£95k
- Gateshead£95k
- Blaby£93k
- Preston£93k
- Wirral£93k
- Charnwood£93k
- Cotswold£91k
- Stoke-on-Trent£91k
- Vale of White Horse£90k
- Flintshire£90k
- Fife£89k
- Ipswich£89k
- Telford and Wrekin£88k
- St Albans£88k
- North Hertfordshire£88k
- Colchester£88k
- Belfast£88k
- Mid Suffolk£87k
- Wrexham£87k
- Highland£86k
- Wokingham£86k
- Norwich£86k
- East Staffordshire£86k
- Winchester£86k
- Brent£85k
- Dacorum£84k
- Oldham£83k
- West Oxfordshire£83k
- Welwyn Hatfield£82k
- Basingstoke and Deane£82k
- Tameside£82k
- York£81k
- Basildon£80k
- Stafford£80k
- Stroud£79k
- Medway£79k
- Crawley£79k
- Maidstone£78k
- Lichfield£77k
- Kingston upon Thames£77k
- Cumberland£76k
- Wychavon£76k
- Bromsgrove£76k
- North Warwickshire£75k
- West Lothian£74k
- Exeter£74k
- North Kesteven£74k
- Elmbridge£74k
- Plymouth£73k
- Windsor and Maidenhead£72k
- Blackburn with Darwen£72k
- Braintree£72k
- Amber Valley£72k
- Breckland£71k
- Havering£71k
- Guildford£71k
- East Devon£70k
- Halton£70k
- East Hampshire£70k
- Tewkesbury£70k
- South Ribble£70k
- Mid Sussex£69k
- Bath and North East Somerset£69k
- Broadland£69k
- Rugby£69k
- St. Helens£69k
- Thurrock£69k
- New Forest£69k
- Chesterfield£68k
- Chorley£68k
- Barnet£68k
- Ashfield£68k
- Chelmsford£68k
- Dartford£68k
- Newcastle-under-Lyme£68k
- Tonbridge and Malling£67k
- South Kesteven£66k
- Powys£66k
- Lancaster£66k
- Harrow£65k
- Newark and Sherwood£65k
- Gloucester£64k
- Hertsmere£63k
- Test Valley£63k
- Bracknell Forest£62k
- Horsham£62k
- Wealden£62k
- Runnymede£62k
- Swansea£62k
- Brighton and Hove£62k
- Uttlesford£62k
- Isle of Wight£61k
- Harborough£61k
- Gwynedd£61k
- Three Rivers£61k
- Reading£61k
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk£61k
- West Lancashire£60k
- North East Lincolnshire£60k
- Croydon£60k
- North Lincolnshire£60k
- Rhondda Cynon Taf£59k
- Newham£59k
- Falkirk£58k
- Cheltenham£58k
- Swale£58k
- Luton£58k
- South Norfolk£58k
- Eastleigh£57k
- Epping Forest£57k
- North East Derbyshire£57k
- Sevenoaks£57k
- Enfield£57k
- South Tyneside£57k
- Pembrokeshire£56k
- Southampton£56k
- Bexley£56k
- East Cambridgeshire£55k
- Bromley£55k
- Hyndburn£55k
- East Lindsey£55k
- East Hertfordshire£54k
- Canterbury£54k
- Dundee City£54k
- Dumfries and Galloway£54k
- Cannock Chase£54k
- Antrim and Newtownabbey£54k
- Greenwich£53k
- Hinckley and Bosworth£53k
- Redditch£53k
- South Oxfordshire£52k
- Lisburn and Castlereagh£52k
- Middlesbrough£52k
- South Hams£51k
- Reigate and Banstead£51k
- Stirling£51k
- Redbridge£51k
- Bassetlaw£50k
- Hammersmith and Fulham£50k
- Ashford£50k
- Darlington£50k
- Stevenage£50k
- Boston£49k
- Sefton£49k
- Watford£49k
- Barking and Dagenham£48k
- Mansfield£48k
- Erewash£47k
- Chichester£47k
- Derbyshire Dales£47k
- Fareham£46k
- South Derbyshire£46k
- Surrey Heath£45k
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon£45k
- Lambeth£45k
- Cambridge£45k
- Nuneaton and Bedworth£44k
- Portsmouth£44k
- Richmond upon Thames£43k
- Bolsover£43k
- Babergh£43k
- Oxford£43k
- South Holland£43k
- Sutton£43k
- Harlow£43k
- Mid Ulster£43k
- Malvern Hills£42k
- Waverley£42k
- Newport£42k
- Caerphilly£42k
- Scottish Borders£42k
- Broxtowe£41k
- Rossendale£41k
- Pendle£41k
- Lewes£41k
- West Lindsey£41k
- Tunbridge Wells£41k
- Southwark£40k
- Tamworth£40k
- Midlothian£40k
- Teignbridge£40k
- Newry, Mourne and Down£40k
- Rushcliffe£39k
- Blackpool£39k
- North Norfolk£39k
- South Staffordshire£39k
- Neath Port Talbot£39k
- South Ayrshire£39k
- Bridgend£39k
- Mole Valley£39k
- Lincoln£39k
- Knowsley£39k
- Redcar and Cleveland£38k
- Wandsworth£37k
- Hart£37k
- Isle of Anglesey£37k
- Fenland£36k
- Denbighshire£36k
- North Devon£36k
- Rushmoor£36k
- Carmarthenshire£34k
- Argyll and Bute£34k
- Merton£34k
- East Lothian£33k
- Arun£33k
- Tendring£33k
- Folkestone and Hythe£33k
- Westminster£33k
- Havant£33k
- Ards and North Down£32k
- Torbay£32k
- Spelthorne£32k
- Worcester£32k
- Mid and East Antrim£31k
- Fylde£31k
- Burnley£31k
- East Ayrshire£31k
- Great Yarmouth£30k
- Oadby and Wigston£30k
- High Peak£30k
- East Dunbartonshire£30k
- Ribble Valley£29k
- Maldon£29k
- Wyre Forest£29k
- Causeway Coast and Glens£29k
- Monmouthshire£29k
- Conwy£28k
- Forest of Dean£28k
- Worthing£28k
- Woking£27k
- East Renfrewshire£27k
- Camden£27k
- Torridge£27k
- North Ayrshire£27k
- Rutland£26k
- Wyre£25k
- Brentwood£25k
- Adur£25k
- Hartlepool£23k
- Mid Devon£23k
- Gedling£23k
- Tandridge£23k
- West Dunbartonshire£23k
- Southend-on-Sea£22k
- Broxbourne£22k
- Derry City and Strabane£22k
- Ceredigion£22k
- Waltham Forest£22k
- Vale of Glamorgan£22k
- Moray£21k
- Torfaen£21k
- Gravesham£21k
- Melton£20k
- Clackmannanshire£20k
- Staffordshire Moorlands£19k
- Eastbourne£19k
- Tower Hamlets£19k
- Thanet£18k
- Islington£18k
- Haringey£18k
- Angus£17k
- Castle Point£16k
- Rochford£15k
- Lewisham£15k
- Dover£14k
- City of London£14k
- Epsom and Ewell£13k
- Fermanagh and Omagh£13k
- Rother£12k
- Kensington and Chelsea£12k
- Hastings£12k
- Blaenau Gwent£11k
- Hackney£9k
- West Devon£9k
- Merthyr Tydfil£9k
- Orkney Islands£9k
- Gosport£8k
- Inverclyde£7k
- Na h-Eileanan Siar£3k
- Shetland Islands£2k
£494k
Yorkshire and The Humber · 1,351 sockets
£365k
Yorkshire and The Humber · 983 sockets
£310k
West Midlands · 834 sockets
£300k
East Midlands · 805 sockets
£286k
South East · 773 sockets
£282k
South West · 772 sockets
£254k
East Midlands · 683 sockets
£254k
Yorkshire and The Humber · 676 sockets
£248k
Scotland · 666 sockets
£244k
South East · 667 sockets
Grant for sockets installed in each of 360 local authorities, as at 1 July 2026. Source: GOV.UK
Year by year
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| Year | Funding |
|---|---|
| 2016 | £1k |
| 2017 | £269k |
| 2018 | £703k |
| 2019 | £2.3m |
| 2020 | £2.7m |
| 2021 | £3.9m |
| 2022 | £5.6m |
| 2023 | £4m |
| 2024 | £2.6m |
| 2025 | £3m |
| 2026 | £1.5m |
- 2016
- £1k · 4 sockets
- 2017
- £269k · 894 sockets
- 2018
- £703k · 1,652 sockets
- 2019
- £2.3m · 4,511 sockets
- 2020
- £2.7m · 6,218 sockets
- 2021
- £3.9m · 11,145 sockets
- 2022
- £5.6m · 16,014 sockets
- 2023
- £4m · 11,561 sockets
- 2024
- £2.6m · 7,558 sockets
- 2025
- £3m · 8,634 sockets
- 2026
- £1.5m · 3,726 sockets
By the month each socket was installed, from December 2016; 2026 to June. Source: GOV.UK
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