FIRING LINE LTD

Registered charity 1129084 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARDIFF CASTLE MUSEUM OF THE WELSH SOLDIER, FIRING LINE

Firing Line is a joint Regimental Museum of 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards and The Royal Welsh. Officially opened by HRH Charles, Prince of Wales in June 2010.It is open to the public 362 days of the year and shows the two regiment's history over the past 350 years. Interactive and educational for all ages, it has temporary exhibitions 3 times a year and also has changing gallery displays.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY, IN EACH CASE ONLY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: (A) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY, CULTURE AND MILITARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF: I. QDG AND ITS ANTECEDENT AND SUCCESSOR REGIMENTS; AND II. R WELSH AND ITS ANTECEDENT AND SUCCESSOR REGIMENTS, IN PARTICULAR TO MAINTAIN A MILITARY MUSEUM AND ARCHIVE AND TO PRESERVE AND EXHIBIT TO THE PUBLIC THOSE ARTEFACTS AND ASSETS WHICH ARE ON LOAN FROM THE QDG, THE R WELSH AND THEIR RESPECTIVE MUSEUM TRUSTS (“THE COLLECTION”); (B) TO PROMOTE AN AWARENESS OF THE HISTORY AND ROLE OF THE ARMED FORCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, ESPECIALLY THE QDG AND R WELSH, WITH AN AIM OF PROMOTING AN INTEREST AND INVOLVEMENT BY THE PUBLIC WITH BOTH REGIMENTS; AND FURTHER ADVANCING PUBLIC EDUCATION BY ENGAGING WITH THE ARMED FORCES AND VETERAN COMMUNITY IN WALES. NOTHING IN THESE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY STATUTORY PROVISION REGARDING THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘CHARITABLE’, OR THE WORDS ‘CHARITABLE PURPOSES’, IN FORCE IN ANY PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £54,313 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £373,887 against total expenditure of £315,415. Free reserves stood at £422,903, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £180,000 (six months of operating costs). The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HSJ Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brigadier David Mark Wheelerchair
• BRIGADIER ALAN STEWART RICHMOND OBE
• COLONEL JEREMY EAMON DOUGLAS PUGHE-MORGAN
• Major Gareth Robert Hughes
• Major Robert Courtney Mansel
• Richard James Parfitt Dennis

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cardiff

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).