“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
In 2016, Charity Fleetcare’s founder Tony Hilton went to Arnold Clark Vehicle Management (ACVM), leading vehicle leasing company and part of the UK’s largest car retailer, Arnold Clark Automobiles the UK’s largest car retailer with a vision. A vision to create an all-in-one vehicle leasing and telematics package – a modern charity fleet management solution to solve modern charity-specific fleet challenges.
Eight years later, what started with a single Renault Master Low Loader for the Cheshire charity Changing Lives Together, has now grown to become the go-to fleet management choice for charities all across the UK.
Delighted customers include: SCOPE, The Children’s Society, Royal Trinity Hospice, and Too Good To Waste.
Charity Fleetcare and ACVM – a dedicated vehicle leasing and fleet management technology package created especially for the charity sector.
Historically, much of the charity sector would purchase their fleet vehicles, run them into the ground, and then go to market for a replacement. A purchase/exhaust/repeat model that came with all kinds of operational and financial challenges when compared to leasing. For example:
With the old purchase model relatively inflexible, expensive and old-fashioned, the charity sector was crying out for a new, more efficient way to run their fleets. And that’s exactly what we’ve created.
Offering more than just the typical cost and flexibility benefits of leasing, ACVM have tailored their contracts to help meet the specific needs of the charity sector and make leasing even more affordable and accessible with:
Suddenly, it’s easy to see why so many charities value our partnership so highly – especially when it comes to…
Though most vans we supply are still diesel, the charity sector’s commitment to EV transition is clear.
What’s often not so clear for many charities is the best way to go about making that transition – the simplest, most cost-effective way to run a more sustainable, environmentally friendly fleet.
Not only are you faced with all your typical vehicle options like model, capacity and performance, but there are plenty of new EV-specific issues to take on board too. Do you go hybrid? Plug-in hybrid? Fully electric? And what about vehicle range, charging infrastructure or specialist EV maintenance and support?
Expert and experienced in sustainable vehicle leasing ACVM is perfectly placed to help our charity customers always make the perfect EV choice. After a multi-million pound investment from the company, Arnold Clark opened their Innovation Centres in Glasgow and Stafford, offering interactive vehicle guides and tailored test drives, so you can always make the right fleet decisions.
Add Charity Fleet Pro technology to that ACVM leased EV insight and what would have been a confusing, time-consuming and potentially expensive shift to a sustainable fleet is suddenly made easy.
Whether you choose petrol, diesel or electric, specifying, ordering and equipping your new connected vehicle is a simple step-by-step process.
You tell us what you want to achieve, we’ll recommend your ideal vehicle and then contact AVCM to work out the lease details.
They’ll come back with a great deal, we’ll bundle the tech and any other add-ons then give you your costs.
Once you give us the go-ahead, we’ll firm up the order with ACVM, they’ll place it with the manufacturer and update us on lead times.
When your new vehicle arrives we’ll fit your Charity Fleet Pro tech and get it straight to you.
It’s exactly the kind of simple, common-sense solution that recently saw Royal Trinity Hospice pick up a fully electric Transit. Wrapped in charity branding by Arnold Clark’s digital print team, the van has been such a hit that RTH have already ordered another.
Looking at leasing? Exploring electric? Intent on staying ICE (internal combustion engine)? Talk to us!