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Company description
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 17 October 1990; registered for 35 years; registered office reported in HATFIELD, HERTFORDSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 36000 · Water collection, treatment and supply.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 5 trade marks, 22 procurement records, 1 waste registration. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- AFFINITY WATER LIMITED
- Company number
- 02546950
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 2 total · 1 outstanding · 1 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2026Next accounts due
31 December 2027Last statement made up to
16 June 2026Next statement due
30 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 42.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 84.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 89.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 28.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 21.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 33.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 63.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499926.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499927.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499930.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499928.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499929.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499927.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499927.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499928.6% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 28 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 April 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £190,665,084
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £36,214,815
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £13,578,650
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £48,438,087
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 28.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 1.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
Maximum contractual payment period agreed
60 days End of Month
Retention circumstances
Retentions clauses are included in certain contracts which are based on a percentage retention of work to date.
1) The value of the contract and duration of the period the works are to last.
2) To protect the business from Highways Authority defects which have a warranty period of 2 years.
3) To protect the business in case the contractor ceases to exist, and Highways Authority or potential customer defects arise.
4) It is a financial safeguard designed to ensure quality, accountability, and completion of work.
5) It protects the business from financial loss if the contractor fails to meet obligations, goes bankrupt, or abandons the project.
Retention release
Retentions clauses are included in certain contracts which are based on a percentage retention of work to date.
Retentions are released upon receipt of Defects Certificate.
Retention release stages
This is contract dependent, with normal practice being to release 50% on practical completion at the end of the contract and the remaining after a 2 year defect period.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- 5.0%
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 2.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Shortest standard payment period
0 days (upon receipt/immediate)
Longest standard payment period
60 days End of Month
Standard payment terms
30th of month following - Other payment-term information
Any other information about payment terms
1 supplier’s standard terms is 60 days after the end of the month - Dispute resolution process
If there is a dispute on an invoice, the Accounts Payable team will contact the person who raised the Purchase Order and the Supplier and liaise with them to try and resolve the dispute. If Accounts Payable cannot resolve it, the invoice will be returned to the Supplier as unpaid and the matter will be referred to the Category Manager for their assistance. A meeting then will be set up between the Supplier, Category Manager and Accounts Payable. Once the dispute is settled, the invoice will be paid in the next available payment run.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 26.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay27.0% outside terms
- 54.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED
LEI 213800C5H514C3AD9V36 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 17 October 1990
- Initial LEI registration
- 6 February 2014
- LEI last updated
- 19 February 2026
- Next renewal
- 22 February 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- VEOLIA WATER CENTRAL LIMITED
- Legal address
- TAMBLIN WAY, HATFIELD, GB-HRT, AL10 9EZ, GB
- Headquarters address
- TAMBLIN WAY, HATFIELD, GB-HRT, AL10 9EZ, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 213800C5H514C3AD9V36 to LEI 213800RENFTJN74C3433
- Related legal entity
- AFFINITY WATER HOLDCO FINANCE LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 6 February 2014
- Last updated
- 19 February 2026
- Next renewal
- 22 February 2027
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2025-03-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2014-02-06T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://www.affinitywater.co.uk/docs/investor_library/2025/annual-report.pdf
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- AFFINITY WATER LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- DAIWATER INVESTMENT LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2021
- Approved
- 3 March 2022
- Sectors
- Utilities: gas, water and electricity
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 20 April 2022
Earlier linked statements (3)
- AFFINITY WATER LIMITED31 March 2021
- AFFINITY WATER LIMITED31 December 2020
- AFFINITY WATER LIMITED19 June 2020
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
Figurative mark
Owner Affinity Water Limited · classes 9,11,36,37,39,40,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 19 September 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 September 2026
Figurative mark
Owner Affinity Water Limited · classes 9,11,36,37,39,40,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 19 September 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 September 2026
AFFINITY FOR BUSINESS
Owner Affinity Water Limited · classes 9,11,35,37,39,40,41,42,44
- Filed / designated
- 1 April 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 April 2026
AFFINITY WATER
Owner Affinity Water Limited · classes 9,11,36,37,39,40,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 13 August 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 August 2022
affinity power
Owner Affinity Water Limited · classes 4,39
- Filed / designated
- 13 November 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 November 2023
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Affinity Water Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- England And Wales
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Registrar Of Companies England And Wales
- Registration number
- 8350099
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Affinity Water Capital Funds Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors (as a firm)
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- England And Wales
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- England And Wales
- Registration number
- 2630142
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 6 April 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
New Water Mains Installation
NHS Property Services Limited · updated 28 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
CM3107 Lightning Protection Supply and Inspection Services
YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED · updated 18 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 672
CM3107 Lightning Protection Supply and Inspection Services
YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED · updated 18 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 672
Corporate Clothing and PPE
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 3 September 2026
- Tender value
- £900,000
- Awards
- 0
Pest Control Services
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 3 September 2026
- Tender value
- £2,000,000
- Awards
- 0
Water Meter Reading
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 28 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Water Meter Reading
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 28 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Occupational Health Services
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 25 August 2026
- Tender value
- £800,000
- Awards
- 0
UVDB Powered by Achilles QUDM for Goods, Works and Services
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 19 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
CO Services – Transmission Training Campus Lead Designer – 1127
SSE plc · updated 10 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 146
Winter Gritting Services
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 24 June 2026
- Tender value
- £800,000
- Awards
- 0
Professional & Technical Services
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 4 June 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
Voice of the Customer Platform
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 3 June 2026
- Tender value
- £417,000
- Awards
- 0
Water Efficiency Campaign (WEC)
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 17 March 2026
- Tender value
- £75,000,000
- Awards
- 1
Small Civils, Mechanical and Electrical Framework
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 13 February 2026
- Tender value
- £3,200,000
- Awards
- 0
Water Meter Data Management Solution
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 9 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Water meter data management solution
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 6 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Grand Union Canal Transfer Scheme - Moving Water Together
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 16 July 2025
- Tender value
- £425,000,000
- Awards
- 0
Development Experience Delivery Agreement
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 21 May 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Grounds Maintenance Services (Central)
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 23 April 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 3
Showing the first 20 of 22 linked procurement processes.
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12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
22 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: VEOLIA WATER CENTRAL LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.