Believ brings EV charging to the heart of UK communities with new Church of England partnership

• Believ partners with the Church of England to install EV chargers at 18,000 community-focused church properties.
• Believ provides full funding for installation, operation, and maintenance, costing nothing for churches or local authorities.
• Supports the Church’s net zero goals, generates income, and enables EV access for residents without private parking.

Believ partners with the Church of England to boost EV charging across communities

Charge point operator, Believ, has teamed up with the Church of England (CoE) and Church in Wales (CiW) Parish Buying Service. Through a new framework agreement, Believ will offer its publicly accessible charging solution to 18,000 CoE and CiW properties. That includes churches, schools, and village halls.

The initiative supports the Church’s goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2030. The project is especially beneficial for churchgoers and residents without private parking, who often lack easy access to EV charging options.

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Kevin Ledger, Senior Business Partnerships Manager at Believ, commented:

“These organisations are some of the largest landowners in the UK, and so this framework agreement has the potential to accelerate the rollout of much needed publicly accessible charging infrastructure. By installing EV charge points, churchgoers and local residents without off-street parking spaces will now benefit from the possibilities that sustainable motoring can bring them and help us connect rural communities to the EV charging infrastructure.”

Believ provides a fully funded solution. The company installs, operates, and maintains charge points at zero cost to local authorities, landowners, or churches. 

David Richards, Net Zero Carbon Officer for the CoE and CiW Parish Buying Service, added:

“Through establishing this framework, we aim to drive awareness of how installing EV charge points can help churches in their journey towards becoming more sustainable, crucially without any capital expenditure, but also introduce them to a new income stream that can derive from a church’s existing parking spaces and land.

This new income can then be used to fund further net zero projects. We urge all churches to take advantage of these opportunities to make sustainable changes and tackle the climate crisis.”

This partnership highlights the Church’s sustainability potential as a landowner. Partnerships like this allow countless people to benefit from the simple allocation of parking spaces.