Firing Line Ltd

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.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Cardiff

Area of benefit in its governing document: England and Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £373,887 and spent £315,415.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 14%, from £433,438 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £373,887 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 84% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

93% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£347,182).

Largest funder

MOD Gia gave £24,004 in the year to 31 March 2024, 6% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £25,084 from 1 grant. Government contracts: £322,098 from 1 contract.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2024, the charity named 2 funders who gave £39,504 between them. £0 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2013, worth at least £64,900.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 30 June 2026

  Named by Ken Skates in the Senedd

  …rectly accountable to you. You've issued a final warning. Surely that also applies to NHS Wales, in which case, you are putting yourself in the firing line directly if we do not see, as you put it, immediate improvements. I'd just welcome an outline of how much responsibility you are willing to take…

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• 12 November 2025

  Named by Ken Skates in the Senedd

  …us pop-up event in Wrexham. We have some incredible museums across Wales celebrating history and educating people in the process, including the Firing Line at Cardiff Castle alongside the Royal Welsh Museum in Brecon and the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum in Caernarfon. I suspect the best place for a…

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• 5 November 2025

  Named by Andrew RT Davies in the Senedd

  …o pass, as legislators, we look back on in a few years time and find an horrendous bill landing on people's doorsteps and we're the ones in the firing line for it?

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• 11 June 2025

  Named by Nilesh Sachdev in the Senedd

  …ot to make sure that we're going to—. Using the example I used earlier, there are going to be occasions when I do not want the CEO to be on the firing line. There is something about protecting them a little bit as well, as we go this way, but making sure that there is a clear plan and clear mileston…

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• 1 May 2024

  Named by Dr Paul Anderson in the Senedd

6 trustees run the charity.

• Brigadier David Mark WheelerChairAppointed 1 October 2016
• Brigadier Alan Stewart Richmond OBE
• Colonel Jeremy Eamon Douglas Pughe-morganAppointed 14 March 2022
• Major Gareth Robert HughesAppointed 29 September 2020
• Major Robert Courtney ManselAppointed 1 May 2025
• Richard James Parfitt DennisAppointed 25 February 2025

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1129084

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

8 April 2009

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/12/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11/10/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 01 APR 2022 as amended on 24 Sept 2024

Company number

06774535This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.cardiffcastlemuseum.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
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