Small Accommodation Business Workplace Charging Scheme

Small Accommodation Business Workplace Charging Scheme

Opening date: 1 September 2016, 12:01am

Closing date: 31 March 2024, 11:59pm

The Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) is open to businesses, charities and public sector organisations that meet the applicant and site eligibility criteria.

The grant covers up to 75% of the total costs of the purchase and installation of EV chargepoints (inclusive of VAT), capped at a maximum of £350 per socket 40 sockets across all sites per applicant.

If your business is a charity or small accommodation business, from March 2022 the following eligibility rules will apply:

• be a registered accommodation business with less than 250 employees; or a charity have received – or have currently pending at the time of application – less than €200,000 of public support in the last 3 financial years (meaning the previous 2 financial years plus the current financial year) and satisfy the state aid requirements for de minimis aid be located in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland (applicants in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man are not eligible)
• have dedicated off-street parking own the property or have consent from the landlord for chargepoints to be installed at all the sites listed in the application
• Each site where chargepoints are installed must: have designated off-street parking facilities with spaces that are suitable for chargepoint installations. All parking must be designated to the applicant, although the rest of the car park may be shared with other organisations have a minimum power supply of 3kW to each individual socket that is not diminished by their simultaneous use have no more than one socket installed for each accessible parking space.
• The parking facility must exist, the grant will not be provided for parking facilities that have not yet been built.

An accommodation business includes: hotels and similar accommodation, holiday centres and villages, youth hostels, other holiday and other collective accommodation, recreational vehicle parks, trailer parks and camping grounds, and other accommodation.

TOP TIPS FOR APPLICANTS

Here are some useful tips for completing an application:

Sell your idea

Explain really clearly what your project does and how it will benefit the economy. Show what the funding will mean to the success of your project. If you can show that your project is good value for money, and that you’re planning to use the grant money to improve your project, you’re more likely to get the grant.

Do the market research

You have to show that there is real demand for what you want to do, or you’re unlikely to get a grant.

Be prepared

You will need to keep detailed records about your project, because you’ll have to provide proof (including detailed quotes) of how much the various elements of your project will cost.

For more information, and to apply CLICK HERE

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