Rural and Island Infrastructure Fund, 2026/27
Public EV charging on your land, with 75 to 100 per cent of the cost covered by grant.
Argyll finds rural and island sites that qualify, confirms the funding band from the postcode, and introduces you to the operators and installers who put the chargers in and run them. There is no cost to the site.
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Grant offers accepted by 15 December 2026 days to go
Already on ChargePlace Scotland? Every charger has to move to a new operator by 31 December 2026 days to go
Eligibility
Does your site qualify?
The Rural and Island Infrastructure Fund uses the Scottish Government's urban rural classification. The postcode decides the band; the site check decides the rest.
The land must be privately owned, or leased with the landowner’s consent, and the chargers must be open to the public.Send us the postcode and we will tell you the band within one working day.
Send us the postcodeAlready host a charger on ChargePlace Scotland? It has its own deadline and its own grant.What to do before 31 December
Your postcode
Islands, and rural postcodes more than 30 minutes from a town
100per cent
Eligible costs paid in full, up to the cap per unit
Your postcode
Rural postcodes within 30 minutes of a town, and very remote small towns
75per cent
The remaining quarter sits with the host or the operator, by agreement
Your postcode
Towns and cities, and small towns within an hour of one
Not eligible
The fund is for places the market has not reached
The process
How it works
Five steps, in this order. Most sites go from first call to a grant application inside a few weeks.
You sign a letter of authority
One page. It lets Argyll check your site, speak to operators and installers for you, and correspond with Energy Saving Trust once you have confirmed us to them. It does not commit you to anything and you can withdraw it by email.
We confirm the band and book a site check
The postcode decides whether the fund pays 100 or 75 per cent. The site check looks at parking, access and the electricity supply.
You receive written proposals
From charge point operators or installers. Revenue share, use of bays, term and maintenance are their terms, set out in writing before you sign anything.
The application is made in your name
By you, or by your chosen operator on your behalf. Nothing is bought or started before it is in, because the fund does not pay for work already under way.
Installation follows the grant offer
Offers must be accepted within ten working days and by 15 December 2026; works complete and claimed by 16 March 2027.
Deadlines
The dates that matter
days to go
Grant offers accepted by 15 December 2026
Grant offers accepted by
- 16 days later
- About 8 weeks later
Realistic last installation
- About 3 weeks later
Works complete and claimed by
Chargers stay public for five years.
Services
What we do
Grant-funded charging for rural and island sites
We find out whether your site qualifies, confirm the band, and bring you written proposals from operators and installers. No cost to you.
ChargePlace Scotland transition
If you host a charger on ChargePlace Scotland, it has to move to a new operator by 31 December 2026, and a grant pays to replace units too old to move. We find the operator and support the application.
For operators and installers
Qualified rural and island sites, eligibility checked and authority signed, ready for a proposal.
Why Argyll
The tools make us thorough; they do not make the decisions.
Independent
Argyll does not install or operate chargers and takes no share of charging income. Our fee is paid by the operator or installer, not by the site.
Local
Based in Paisley, on the west side of Glasgow, working across Argyll, the Highlands and the islands, where the fund pays the most and take-up has been lowest.
Thorough
We use AI tooling to search and check sites across rural Scotland faster than anyone could by hand, and a person still confirms each site’s eligibility before we pick up the phone.
Honest about the terms
The fund asks things of a host: public access around the clock for five years, a back-office contract, a public map listing. We tell you before you sign anything.
Fees
What it costs
Argyll is paid by the operator or installer, not by the site.
Site hosts
No fee
Eligibility check, site check, introductions
Paid by the operator or installer, not by you
Operators and installers
By agreement
Qualified, eligible sites with a signed authority
Terms agreed per site before any introduction is made
Get in touch
Send us a postcode
Tell us where the site is and what parking it has. We will confirm the band and say whether it is worth a site check.