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EV & EV CHARGING
Believ partners with the Church of
England Parish Buying Service to
help deliver EV infrastructure to
local communities
Charge point operator (CPO)
Believ has won a place on a
framework agreement with
the Church of England (CoE)
and Church in Wales (CiW)
Parish Buying Service to
make its publicly accessible
electric vehicle (EV) charging
infrastructure solution available
to the 18,000 properties under
the Parish Buying Service’s
jurisdiction.
The Framework is designed to
support the CoE and CiW in
achieving net zero by 2030, and
to help communities to provide
publicly accessible EV charge
points for their residents and
visitors.
Believ offers a fully funded
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solution installing, operating
and maintaining charge points
of all speeds – at zero cost to
local authorities, landowners or
businesses. As a supplier on the
framework agreement, Believ will
partner with the Parish Buying
Service in its mission to reduce
its carbon footprint, protect the
biodiversity within church grounds
and land and help reduce the
Church’s impact on the climate
emergency.
All churches, schools and village
halls with car parks on land owned
by the CoE and CiW are able to
request EV charging infrastructure
support through this tender
Kevin Ledger, Senior Business
Partnerships Manager at Believ,
says the CoE and CiW properties
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sit at the heart of their communities:
“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,”
he says. “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.”
David Richards, Net Zero
Carbon Officer for the CoE and
CiW Parish Buying Service, says
Believ’s fully funded solution is
essential: “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.”
