ROYAL ARTILLERY MUSEUM

Registered charity 803006 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q682917 · Wikipedia · also known as FIREPOWER, ROYAL ARTILLERY MUSEUMS LIMITED, ROYAL ARTILLERY MUSEUMS LTD

The objectives of the charity are to provide a Museum and library and raise funds for future development so as to educate the public and members of the Regiment in its history and traditions. It is also to conserve and care for the nationally designated collection

Objects

TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A PUBLIC MUSEUM OR MUSEUMS AND LIBRARY OR LIBRARIES FOR THE EXHIBITION TO THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY, OF ARMS, ORDNANCE, BOOKS, DOCUMENTS, ARTEFACTS AND OTHER ITEMS CONNECTED WITH THE REGIMENT SO AS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT IN THE REGIMENT AND ITS HISTORY AND TRADITIONS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds amounted to £2,929,396, with £2,622,525 freely available, while the charity holds one year's operating costs as a reserve due to its reliance on grants. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing sufficient headroom. The charity delivered a balanced budget in 2025, protected its capital for the future museum project, and received significant support from the Ministry of Defence and other stakeholders.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fiander ETL. Discloses 4 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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02472345 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: ROYAL ARTILLERY MUSEUMS (ENTERPRISES) LIMITED Companies House 02692172

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WATSON, Christopher Michael — director, appointed 21/08/2026on trustee list
• MASHEDER, Christof David — director, appointed 06/05/2025on trustee list
• SKELLORN, Rosalind Gemma — director, appointed 22/10/2024on trustee list
• JOLLEY, Samantha Louise — director, appointed 14/10/2024on trustee list
• FOSS-SMITH, Thomas Patrick — director, appointed 15/01/2023on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Peter — director, appointed 18/11/2019on trustee list
• CARSON, Peter David — director, appointed 17/04/2019on trustee list
• MILLIGAN, Mark Alexander Laing, Brigadier — director, appointed 06/09/2016on trustee list
• BARNES, James Cecil — director, appointed 16/06/2016on trustee list
• WRAGG, Peter Graham — director, appointed 22/02/2016on trustee list
• EELES, Nicholas Henry — director, appointed 22/01/2016not on trustee list
• BEAL, Graham — director, appointed 01/05/2013on trustee list
• HAWKES, Simon John — director, appointed 22/04/1999on trustee list
• SEHOTA, Sonjeev Singh — secretary, appointed 06/01/2014

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~62.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (41% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Major General Nick Eeleschair
• Christof Masheder
• Christopher Watson
• GRAHAM BEAL · trustee of 2 other charities
• James Cecil Barnes
• Mark Alexander Laing Milligan
• Peter Carson
• Peter Thompson
• Peter Wragg
• Rosalind Skellorn
• SIMON JOHN HAWKES
• Samantha Jolley
• Thomas Patrick Foss-Smith

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL ARTILLERY CHARITABLE FUND.

• ROYAL ARTILLERY CHARITABLE FUND income £1.8m
• THE ROYAL WELSH REGIMENTAL MUSEUM TRUST income £90k
• ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION LIMITED income £951k
• THE ROYAL ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION income £277k
• YORK ARMY MUSEUM income £166k
• THE FUSILIER MUSEUM LONDON income £156k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.