about us

Who We Are

Active Pump Services Ltd (APS) is a family-owned, independent UK SME contractor specialising in the design, installation, maintenance, and effective management of critical drainage, pumping, sanitation, and clean and wastewater systems.

We support clients where system performance and operational continuity are essential, delivering resilient infrastructure across borehole and irrigation systems, civil engineering, and groundworks. Our focus is on reliability, compliance, and long-term operational performance.

We specialise in offgrid, adoptable, and public water and wastewater, water features, borehole and irrigation systems including civil engineering and groundwork solutions toilored to our customers’ needs.

Established in 1998, APS brings over 28 years of trading experience and more than 100 years of combined drainage, sanitation, clean & wastewater water engineering and operational management expertise. 

We deliver technically robust, compliant, and resilient solutions across housing, commercial, leisure, healthcare, life sciences, energy and infrastructure, industrial, municipal, agricultural, and strategic infrastructure environments.

APS supports customers through planned works, reactive response, and long-term asset support, helping to manage risk, maintain continuity of service, and protect critical infrastructure while meeting regulatory, environmental, and safety requirements. 

Our project management expertise includes design-and-build delivery solutions across CAPEX and OPEX programmes, coordinated supply chains, and programme control, alongside proactive asset management to optimise whole-life cost, sustainable performance, and long-term reliability.

Our Business Purpose

We provide dependable and sustainable water management solutions encompassing pumps, drainage, building management, and environmental services, thereby supporting communities, infrastructure, and the environment.

Our comprehensive and intelligent services are designed to meet the needs of residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial clients of all types.

Our Mission

To protect people, property, and infrastructure by delivering innovative clean and wastewater management solutions through qualified, experienced engineers and customer-focused teams.

Mission Statement: Your water (clean and wastewater) is our sustainable business priority.

Our Team & Leadership

Directors & Management Team

Dr. Peter Gombera

Owner & MD - Bsc(Hons) Msc, MA, PhD, FRICS, CEng, MAPM

Paul Thatcher​

Finance Director Bsc(Hons) FCA (UK)

Terry Isaac

Operations Director

Geoff Greenfield

Consultant

Business Development & Operational Team

Peter Hey

Sales Manager

Danny Groves

Operations Manager

Dale Tucker

Engineering Manager

Nicky Spencer

Business Co-Ordinator

Claire Whitehead

Business Change Analyst

Emma Aldred

Administrative Assistant

Leah Browning

Customer and Business Services Administrator

Business Trainee

Oona Gombera


Business Trainee

Engineering Team

Derek Aldred

Workshop Engineer

Alan Aldred

Senior Civils & Pump Engineer

Daniel Blackett

Senior Drainage Engineer

Owen Connolly

Owen Connolly

Senior Pump Engineer

Sam Higgins

Pump Engineer

John Hobbs

Civils & Pump Engineer

Cliff Larney

Senior Pump Engineer

Ian Thorp

Contractor - Engineer

Andrew Mills

Pump Engineer

Sonny Dobbelaar

Trainee Pump Engineer

Peter Junior

Peter Junior Gombera

Business Trainee

Tanker Services Team

Andrew Coleman

Tanker Coordinator

Roland Spiller

Tanker Operative

“Sir” Jack Doidge

Tanker Operative