We are an independent consultancy with more than 75 experienced experts

Riverside Environmental Services was founded in 2002 with a clear purpose: to protect people and help clients solve problems – safely, compliantly, and independently.

We pride ourselves on clear communication and every project we undertake is supported with regular updates, detailed data, and reporting, ensuring we’re working together every step of the way.

Why Riverside Environmental Services

We work alongside partner organisations and businesses across the UK to maintain compliance, keeping people and workplaces safe.

Our purpose is to protect clients and colleagues. Finding the right compliance solution is fundamental to your operations.

For more than 20 years, Riverside has operated with its core principles front-and-centre, shaping everything we do – from daily operations to strategic decisions.

About us

Free from links to contractors, we guarantee total independence with every single project we undertake. Our focus is to offer you effective, pragmatic solutions built on absolute integrity, and this is only possible through our lack of any commercial bias. Every recommendation we make simply combines our objective approach with a specialist, in-depth understanding of the most appropriate route for individual scenarios. Additionally, we can vouch for every member of our team as we never use subcontractors or agency staff for our services. This way, we remain free to focus on the best solution, independently.

Since 2002, we’ve grown our team of skilled, experienced professionals to more than 85 people, experts we are confident our clients will want to work with. Finding the right solution is fundamental to our clients’ operations. Backing up our personable and accountable approach, every project we undertake is supported with regular updates, detailed data and reporting to aid progression, clarity, and record-keeping.

Since our inception we have worked with some of the UK’s largest, most renowned, and most prestigious clients. No matter the project, client, or deadline, protecting people, and ensuring they are protected, is always our priority. This includes everyone on site, protecting their safety, health, and productivity.

Wherever your location, our nationwide coverage means we can reach you, whenever you need us there. Due to our operational efficiency, we can respond quickly when faced with short deadlines or urgent requirements. Even when our involvement is unexpected, we remain focused on delivering the best value, while maintaining the very high standards Riverside is known for.

Our team is built on experience

When we say our team, we mean our team.

Our workforce of workplace safety professionals across the country delivers continuity, accountability, and hands-on, in‑house expertise – never relying on subcontractors or third-party staff.

Free from links to contractors, we guarantee total independence with every single project we undertake, from prestigious and Grade-listed sites to some of the largest companies in the UK.

Our focus is to offer you effective, pragmatic solutions built on absolute integrity – solutions that put your needs and safety first and foremost.

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Our team is built on experience

Who we work with

For more than two decades, leading UK organisations have trusted Riverside with their most critical environmental challenges:

  • Delivering services across higher education, council, housing, and commercial sectors, including active participation in more than 15 public sector frameworks.
  • Our experienced consultants have produced tens of thousands of reports annually, including work on prestigious and historic Grade I and II listed buildings.
  • Helping manufacturing clients establish baseline exposure to noise, chemicals, and other challenges, working with them to mitigate or remove risks where possible.

We’re proud to work with prestigious, long-standing clients for whom we have been delivering professional, accurate and low‑disruption services for many years.

Our Clients
Our Clients

Meet the team

Jonathan Francis
Jonathan Francis
Director and Co-founder Jonathan has helped shape the asbestos industry since 1996, and co‑founded Riverside to offer higher standards in consultancy and surveying. Working around environmental services for three decades, he is also the joint Chairman of the Asbestos Testing and Consultancy Association (ATaC), actively involved in new developments and innovations. Outside of Riverside, Jonathan is most likely to be found enjoying his passion for cricket and spending time with his family.
Sharon Gavin
Sharon Gavin
Operations Director With a strong commercial and professional services background, Sharon was also a business owner and senior manager in Marketing and Sales. Since joining in July 2020, her specialities have included process improvements, delivering significant change projects, team management, KPI performance mentoring and overseeing our marketing. Outside of work, she is a Dementia Friends Champion and Trustee of Sevenoaks Area Dementia Friendly Community.
Rob Innes
Rob Innes
Director/Quality Manager Rob has led quality assurance since 2007, ensuring every project meets strict standards and best practice benchmarks, following a career in the industry beginning in 2001. In 2016, Rob became a Director at Riverside and works to ensure all quality accreditations and training is maintained at the highest level, overseeing our two in-house laboratories. As a Leicester City fan, Rob has plenty of experience in life’s highs and lows. All nicely balanced by his young family and sea views.
Zak Davidson
Zak Davidson
Sales Manager Zak is a commercially driven sales leader in TIC (Testing, Inspection and Certification) consultancy, with strong technical insight into environmental risk and compliance. On Riverside’s senior team since 2014, he helps organisations in both private and public sectors manage obligations, strengthen assurance and maintain audit-ready evidence across complex estates and stakeholders. He leads a consultative sales team known for bid, tender, and proposal delivery, translating requirements, risk controls and assurance into clear, defensible scopes, proposals and solutions.

Nationwide reach, local understanding

With key offices in Kent (Head Office) and Birmingham, and teams across the country, Riverside delivers national coverage with regional responsiveness, including through our three UKAS-accredited asbestos labs in Kent, Watford, and Birmingham.

Whether scheduled works or emergency needs, we’re built to deliver fast, compliant support – on-time and within budget when you need it.

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Nationwide reach, local understanding