Thames Valley Drones

About Us

Established in 2015, Sussex-based Thames Valley Drones provides professional drone photography, filming, and surveys. Services span residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, civil engineering, and heritage sectors.

About Us

About Thames Valley Drones

With offices in Horsham, we operate routinely across the following geographic areas: Berkshire,Thames Valley, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire. We also offer bespoke services for specific clients & projects nationally.

This is all our company does, along with the relevant supporting digital & creative services, of course. These include video editing / production / stills photography / design for digital or print. We don’t operate in any other areas so our focus is entirely on the aerial photography, film & surveys we deliver for our customers.

Why work with us

When you work with a small independent business, you don’t just get a service, you get a partner who is genuinely invested in your project. Here’s why choosing us makes all the difference:

01

We’re real specialists

This is our craft, our focus, and our passion. Because we specialise in exactly what we do, you get real expertise and consistently high-quality results.

02

Your business genuinely matters

As a small independent company, every client is important to us. You’re never another number in the system, you’re a valued client whose success fuels ours.

03

We’re flexible

We listen. We adapt quickly, tailor solutions to your needs, and respond with agility, something large companies simply can’t match.

04

Everything is done in-house

No outsourcing, no delays, no miscommunication. By handling all work internally, we deliver faster turnaround times and cost-efficient solutions without compromising quality.

05

You get personalised attention

We take the time to understand your goals, preferences, and challenges. You’ll always know who you’re talking to and we’re always here when you need us.

06

We’re accountable and quality-driven

Our reputation is built one project at a time. That means we stand behind our work, maintain high standards, and treat every job like it’s our most important one, because to us, it is.

Professional training & accreditation

Working from our Sussex base, all Thames Valley Drones, our pilots are fully trained under the recent GVC-PDRA-01 rather than the general sub 250g classification (for Small Unmanned Aircraft (BNUC-S™) for Visual Line of Sight Operations (VLOS)); commissioned by the UK CAA, which covers fixed, rotary and multi-rotor systems.

In addition all our pilots have attained the Sub 20 kg, CAA Operational Authorisation which is renewed annually. This allows us to fly enterprise-class drones for the survey end of our client base & operate to the highest standards.

This authorisation also includes a rating for night flights (in accordance with our CAA approved Operations Manual) enabling us to offer clients photography & filming at night ie where night is classified as 30 mins after and 30 mins before sunset / sunrise.

We also carry third party liability insurance < £10m – depending on the size of the project we are working on.

​For our construction clients we also have pilots with a CSCS Health & Safety & Environment for Operatives accreditation which means that construction clients fine it easier to put our pilots through the construction firm’s own Health & Safety programme, therefore allowing our pilots to work on live construction / CSCS controlled sites.