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
Oona Gombera
Business Trainee
Engineering Team

Derek Aldred
Workshop Engineer

Alan Aldred
Senior Civils & Pump Engineer

Daniel Blackett
Senior Drainage Engineer

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 Gombera
Business Trainee
Tanker Services Team

Andrew Coleman
Tanker Coordinator

Roland Spiller
Tanker Operative

