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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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Workplace Charging Scheme grant by region
RegionFunding
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

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  1. Leeds£494k
  2. North Yorkshire£365k
  3. Birmingham£310k
  4. West Northamptonshire£300k
  5. Buckinghamshire£286k
  6. Cornwall£282k
  7. North Northamptonshire£254k
  8. Sheffield£254k
  9. Glasgow City£248k
  10. Milton Keynes£244k
  11. County Durham£227k
  12. Wiltshire£227k
  13. Kirklees£218k
  14. Bradford£217k
  15. Wakefield£205k
  16. Somerset£201k
  17. Cheshire West and Chester£195k
  18. Cheshire East£195k
  19. Manchester£188k
  20. Warrington£187k
  21. Stockport£183k
  22. Trafford£182k
  23. Peterborough£179k
  24. South Gloucestershire£173k
  25. Hillingdon£164k
  26. East Riding of Yorkshire£158k
  27. Bristol, City of£156k
  28. Coventry£153k
  29. Huntingdonshire£152k
  30. South Cambridgeshire£151k
  31. Cherwell£150k
  32. North West Leicestershire£149k
  33. City of Edinburgh£148k
  34. Stockton-on-Tees£146k
  35. Calderdale£138k
  36. West Suffolk£137k
  37. Northumberland£136k
  38. Solihull£133k
  39. South Lanarkshire£133k
  40. East Suffolk£131k
  41. Salford£129k
  42. Dudley£128k
  43. West Berkshire£125k
  44. Hounslow£123k
  45. Slough£122k
  46. Derby£122k
  47. Barnsley£120k
  48. Sandwell£120k
  49. Rotherham£120k
  50. Stratford-on-Avon£120k
  51. Cardiff£118k
  52. Wigan£118k
  53. Dorset£118k
  54. Aberdeenshire£118k
  55. Warwick£117k
  56. Kingston upon Hull, City of£116k
  57. Bedford£114k
  58. Nottingham£114k
  59. Rochdale£114k
  60. Sunderland£114k
  61. Bolton£114k
  62. Liverpool£113k
  63. Herefordshire, County of£112k
  64. North Lanarkshire£111k
  65. North Somerset£110k
  66. Leicester£110k
  67. Doncaster£109k
  68. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole£109k
  69. Walsall£107k
  70. Swindon£107k
  71. Aberdeen City£106k
  72. Central Bedfordshire£105k
  73. Shropshire£103k
  74. Westmorland and Furness£103k
  75. Wolverhampton£103k
  76. North Tyneside£102k
  77. Bury£98k
  78. Renfrewshire£97k
  79. Ealing£97k
  80. Perth and Kinross£96k
  81. Newcastle upon Tyne£95k
  82. Gateshead£95k
  83. Blaby£93k
  84. Preston£93k
  85. Wirral£93k
  86. Charnwood£93k
  87. Cotswold£91k
  88. Stoke-on-Trent£91k
  89. Vale of White Horse£90k
  90. Flintshire£90k
  91. Fife£89k
  92. Ipswich£89k
  93. Telford and Wrekin£88k
  94. St Albans£88k
  95. North Hertfordshire£88k
  96. Colchester£88k
  97. Belfast£88k
  98. Mid Suffolk£87k
  99. Wrexham£87k
  100. Highland£86k
  101. Wokingham£86k
  102. Norwich£86k
  103. East Staffordshire£86k
  104. Winchester£86k
  105. Brent£85k
  106. Dacorum£84k
  107. Oldham£83k
  108. West Oxfordshire£83k
  109. Welwyn Hatfield£82k
  110. Basingstoke and Deane£82k
  111. Tameside£82k
  112. York£81k
  113. Basildon£80k
  114. Stafford£80k
  115. Stroud£79k
  116. Medway£79k
  117. Crawley£79k
  118. Maidstone£78k
  119. Lichfield£77k
  120. Kingston upon Thames£77k
  121. Cumberland£76k
  122. Wychavon£76k
  123. Bromsgrove£76k
  124. North Warwickshire£75k
  125. West Lothian£74k
  126. Exeter£74k
  127. North Kesteven£74k
  128. Elmbridge£74k
  129. Plymouth£73k
  130. Windsor and Maidenhead£72k
  131. Blackburn with Darwen£72k
  132. Braintree£72k
  133. Amber Valley£72k
  134. Breckland£71k
  135. Havering£71k
  136. Guildford£71k
  137. East Devon£70k
  138. Halton£70k
  139. East Hampshire£70k
  140. Tewkesbury£70k
  141. South Ribble£70k
  142. Mid Sussex£69k
  143. Bath and North East Somerset£69k
  144. Broadland£69k
  145. Rugby£69k
  146. St. Helens£69k
  147. Thurrock£69k
  148. New Forest£69k
  149. Chesterfield£68k
  150. Chorley£68k
  151. Barnet£68k
  152. Ashfield£68k
  153. Chelmsford£68k
  154. Dartford£68k
  155. Newcastle-under-Lyme£68k
  156. Tonbridge and Malling£67k
  157. South Kesteven£66k
  158. Powys£66k
  159. Lancaster£66k
  160. Harrow£65k
  161. Newark and Sherwood£65k
  162. Gloucester£64k
  163. Hertsmere£63k
  164. Test Valley£63k
  165. Bracknell Forest£62k
  166. Horsham£62k
  167. Wealden£62k
  168. Runnymede£62k
  169. Swansea£62k
  170. Brighton and Hove£62k
  171. Uttlesford£62k
  172. Isle of Wight£61k
  173. Harborough£61k
  174. Gwynedd£61k
  175. Three Rivers£61k
  176. Reading£61k
  177. King's Lynn and West Norfolk£61k
  178. West Lancashire£60k
  179. North East Lincolnshire£60k
  180. Croydon£60k
  181. North Lincolnshire£60k
  182. Rhondda Cynon Taf£59k
  183. Newham£59k
  184. Falkirk£58k
  185. Cheltenham£58k
  186. Swale£58k
  187. Luton£58k
  188. South Norfolk£58k
  189. Eastleigh£57k
  190. Epping Forest£57k
  191. North East Derbyshire£57k
  192. Sevenoaks£57k
  193. Enfield£57k
  194. South Tyneside£57k
  195. Pembrokeshire£56k
  196. Southampton£56k
  197. Bexley£56k
  198. East Cambridgeshire£55k
  199. Bromley£55k
  200. Hyndburn£55k
  201. East Lindsey£55k
  202. East Hertfordshire£54k
  203. Canterbury£54k
  204. Dundee City£54k
  205. Dumfries and Galloway£54k
  206. Cannock Chase£54k
  207. Antrim and Newtownabbey£54k
  208. Greenwich£53k
  209. Hinckley and Bosworth£53k
  210. Redditch£53k
  211. South Oxfordshire£52k
  212. Lisburn and Castlereagh£52k
  213. Middlesbrough£52k
  214. South Hams£51k
  215. Reigate and Banstead£51k
  216. Stirling£51k
  217. Redbridge£51k
  218. Bassetlaw£50k
  219. Hammersmith and Fulham£50k
  220. Ashford£50k
  221. Darlington£50k
  222. Stevenage£50k
  223. Boston£49k
  224. Sefton£49k
  225. Watford£49k
  226. Barking and Dagenham£48k
  227. Mansfield£48k
  228. Erewash£47k
  229. Chichester£47k
  230. Derbyshire Dales£47k
  231. Fareham£46k
  232. South Derbyshire£46k
  233. Surrey Heath£45k
  234. Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon£45k
  235. Lambeth£45k
  236. Cambridge£45k
  237. Nuneaton and Bedworth£44k
  238. Portsmouth£44k
  239. Richmond upon Thames£43k
  240. Bolsover£43k
  241. Babergh£43k
  242. Oxford£43k
  243. South Holland£43k
  244. Sutton£43k
  245. Harlow£43k
  246. Mid Ulster£43k
  247. Malvern Hills£42k
  248. Waverley£42k
  249. Newport£42k
  250. Caerphilly£42k
  251. Scottish Borders£42k
  252. Broxtowe£41k
  253. Rossendale£41k
  254. Pendle£41k
  255. Lewes£41k
  256. West Lindsey£41k
  257. Tunbridge Wells£41k
  258. Southwark£40k
  259. Tamworth£40k
  260. Midlothian£40k
  261. Teignbridge£40k
  262. Newry, Mourne and Down£40k
  263. Rushcliffe£39k
  264. Blackpool£39k
  265. North Norfolk£39k
  266. South Staffordshire£39k
  267. Neath Port Talbot£39k
  268. South Ayrshire£39k
  269. Bridgend£39k
  270. Mole Valley£39k
  271. Lincoln£39k
  272. Knowsley£39k
  273. Redcar and Cleveland£38k
  274. Wandsworth£37k
  275. Hart£37k
  276. Isle of Anglesey£37k
  277. Fenland£36k
  278. Denbighshire£36k
  279. North Devon£36k
  280. Rushmoor£36k
  281. Carmarthenshire£34k
  282. Argyll and Bute£34k
  283. Merton£34k
  284. East Lothian£33k
  285. Arun£33k
  286. Tendring£33k
  287. Folkestone and Hythe£33k
  288. Westminster£33k
  289. Havant£33k
  290. Ards and North Down£32k
  291. Torbay£32k
  292. Spelthorne£32k
  293. Worcester£32k
  294. Mid and East Antrim£31k
  295. Fylde£31k
  296. Burnley£31k
  297. East Ayrshire£31k
  298. Great Yarmouth£30k
  299. Oadby and Wigston£30k
  300. High Peak£30k
  301. East Dunbartonshire£30k
  302. Ribble Valley£29k
  303. Maldon£29k
  304. Wyre Forest£29k
  305. Causeway Coast and Glens£29k
  306. Monmouthshire£29k
  307. Conwy£28k
  308. Forest of Dean£28k
  309. Worthing£28k
  310. Woking£27k
  311. East Renfrewshire£27k
  312. Camden£27k
  313. Torridge£27k
  314. North Ayrshire£27k
  315. Rutland£26k
  316. Wyre£25k
  317. Brentwood£25k
  318. Adur£25k
  319. Hartlepool£23k
  320. Mid Devon£23k
  321. Gedling£23k
  322. Tandridge£23k
  323. West Dunbartonshire£23k
  324. Southend-on-Sea£22k
  325. Broxbourne£22k
  326. Derry City and Strabane£22k
  327. Ceredigion£22k
  328. Waltham Forest£22k
  329. Vale of Glamorgan£22k
  330. Moray£21k
  331. Torfaen£21k
  332. Gravesham£21k
  333. Melton£20k
  334. Clackmannanshire£20k
  335. Staffordshire Moorlands£19k
  336. Eastbourne£19k
  337. Tower Hamlets£19k
  338. Thanet£18k
  339. Islington£18k
  340. Haringey£18k
  341. Angus£17k
  342. Castle Point£16k
  343. Rochford£15k
  344. Lewisham£15k
  345. Dover£14k
  346. City of London£14k
  347. Epsom and Ewell£13k
  348. Fermanagh and Omagh£13k
  349. Rother£12k
  350. Kensington and Chelsea£12k
  351. Hastings£12k
  352. Blaenau Gwent£11k
  353. Hackney£9k
  354. West Devon£9k
  355. Merthyr Tydfil£9k
  356. Orkney Islands£9k
  357. Gosport£8k
  358. Inverclyde£7k
  359. Na h-Eileanan Siar£3k
  360. Shetland Islands£2k
Leeds

£494k

Yorkshire and The Humber · 1,351 sockets

North Yorkshire

£365k

Yorkshire and The Humber · 983 sockets

Birmingham

£310k

West Midlands · 834 sockets

West Northamptonshire

£300k

East Midlands · 805 sockets

Buckinghamshire

£286k

South East · 773 sockets

Cornwall

£282k

South West · 772 sockets

North Northamptonshire

£254k

East Midlands · 683 sockets

Sheffield

£254k

Yorkshire and The Humber · 676 sockets

Glasgow City

£248k

Scotland · 666 sockets

Milton Keynes

£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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Workplace Charging Scheme grant by year of installation
YearFunding
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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