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A group of complementary, innovative and customer centric companies.
RESPONSIBLY GROWING RESOURCE
heathcote holdings
Providing for the needs of today without compromising the needs of tomorrow...
a family business with size and scale to deliver your needs
100
Turnover
100
Gross Assets
500
Employees
100
Customer Centric
heathcote holdings
Providing for the needs of today without compromising the needs of tomorrow...
Trevor Heathcote’s entrepreneurial spirit showed signs at a very tender age of 5 when he used to collect the eggs from the chickens in the garden in the morning and then take the eggs into school to sell to his teachers! He’d prepare them a little invoice in his ticket book and debts were collected at the end of each week.
School was somewhere where Trevor looked longingly out of the window, waiting for the bell to ring so he could go home and start the real work of the day, with his dad on their small holding.
From humble beginnings, Trevor has always had a passion for the industry, after all farming is in his blood. He is a man of many virtues, first and foremost being family. His sons Martin and Nathan are fast becoming integral figureheads in the Heathcote Holdings Group and they all subscribe to the same principle; One family delivering the best for its customers.
The diverse and varied group provides a complete ‘From Root to Plate’ solution and totally fulfils the circular economy. Environmental sustainability, customer service and relationships sit at the very core of the entire group. Where every element of what we do is adapted and nurtured to suit our customer’s needs and challenges.
The History of Heathcote Holdings
1985
Start of Trevor’s Contracting Services
After spending two years at Hadlow Collage Trevor Heathcote bought with his first tractor and round baler, growing the business and developing his contracting services over the next few years.
1996
Countrystyle Composting Ltd formed
Trials for a composting site with ADAS saw the launch of Countrystyle Composting Ltd to develop recycling for commercial and domestic green waste.
1998
Higgs Agricultural Services & HS1 Channel Tunnel rail link
Farm & General Services acquired specialist spraying contracting business Higgs Agricultural Services. Also start of five years of work on the HS1 channel tunnel rail link, working for Balfour Betty, Kaverna Construction and Amac.
1999
Awards, fencing and the first lorry
In 1999 Farm & General Services were announced Winner of Farm Contactor of the Year. It also saw the commencement of Four Seasons Fencing and Trevor bought his first lorry.
2004
Commencement of FGS Plant & Countrystyle Recycling
Following the 2002 acquisition of a freehold site in Ridham, nr Sittingbourne, Kent Trevor formed FGS Plant, a plant hire business and Countrystyle Recycling, for the development of an in vessel composting plant and missed recycling facility (MRF). Farm & General Services name changed to FGS Agri.
2005
Countrystyle acquires site in Strood
Countrystyle acquires a waste transfer station in Strood, Kent and associated skip hire operations.
2008
Investment in new in-vessel composting facility
£6m is invested by Countrystyle to build Kent’s first fully permitted PAS100 QP approved in-vessel composing facility.
2009
Countrystyle Composting acquisitions
Countrystyle Composting acquires the in-vessel composting facility at Parham, Suffolk alongside the treatment contract for Suffolk County Council. Countrystyle acquires Folkestone Waste Transfer Station and associated skip hire business.
2010
Further Countrystyle acquisitions
Countrystyle acquires TJ Composting Group, an organics recycling business with sites in Swanley, Kent, Ongar, Essex and Beddingham, East Sussex. Countrystyle also secures seven year contract for the total waste management at New Spitalfields Market from the City of London.
2011
Countrystyle Composting acquires Halstead Renewable Energy Power Project
Acquisition includes full planning permission for development of a 40,000 tpa AD plant. The Group also acquires a further 3 IVC facilities from County Mulch Ltd in Suffolk and Bedfordshire.
2011
Countrystyle acquires Any Waste Solutions Ltd
Acquires this waste collection and recycling business based in Kent. Countystyle Group also sells the management and development rights of four AD sites to Tamar Energy and the operation of six of Countrystyle Composting’s in-vessel and open windrow composting sites.
2013
Commencement of FGS Organics
Launch of recycling specialist FGS Organics offering recycling solutions from supplying organic fertilisers through to complete waste recycling operations.
2014
Acquisition of Water Direct
The acquisition of Water Direct, the preferred alternative drinking water supplier, formed a natural progression for FGS Agri’s existing water operations.
2016
Acquisition of Envar Composting
The acquisition of the site in Cambridgeshire, the UKs largest in-vessel and windrow composting facility, increased the group’s capacity of compost operations significantly.
2019
New Surrey site for Envar Composting
Acquisition of Collier Environmental Services’ composting facility in Chertsey. The new site forms a natural addition to Envar’s flagship IVC composting facility in Cambridgeshire.
2019
Launch of FGS Pilcher
A joint venture with Civils division of FGS Agri and Harvey Pilcher of IG Pilcher drainage specialist sees the launch of FGS Pilcher
2019
Commencement of VeriGreen
Launch of food waste recycling company VeriGreen, supplying food and produce waste to AD plants where green energy is generated to power local homes. The AD waste is then used as a bio fertiliser and spread back onto the land.
2020
Development of AD plant
Substantial investment in a new Anaerobic Digestation (AD) plant in Kent.
2020
New composting sites for Envar
Acquisition of composting sites in Kilsby and Chestefield. These two new sites form a natural addition to Envar’s existing sites in Cambridgeshire and Surrey.