FIRING LINE LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-30 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£447K
+25.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£682K
+8.6% vs 2024
Employees
10
-9.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£54K
-25.4% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £326,690 | £326,614 | |
| Operating profit | £70,813 | £58,472 | |
| Profit before tax | £72,841 | £54,313 | |
| Net profit | £72,841 | £54,313 | |
| Cash | £355,561 | £446,710 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,126,134 | £1,156,453 | |
| Net assets | £627,910 | £682,223 | |
| Equity | £627,910 | £682,223 | |
| Average employees | 11 | 10 | |
| Wages | £218,328 | £214,889 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 21.7% | 17.9% | |
| Net margin | 22.3% | 16.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 6.3% | 5.1% | |
| Current ratio | 7.49x | 9.17x | |
| Interest cover | 8.30x | 6.61x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- HSJ Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“No material uncertainties exist relating to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt upon the entity's ability to continue as a going concern.”
Significant events
- “A photograph exhibition was launched in the museum in 2024 commemorating KFOR and the British Army's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.”
- “In the autumn of 2024, the museum enabled a video-journalist to interview a descendent of Franz Josef I of Austria, former Colonel in Chief of the King's Dragoon Guards, for the creation of a documentary.”
- “A five-year strategy was created and the Board of Trustees met to go through the strategy in February 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEARLE, Hannah Bethan | Secretary | 2020-05-31 | — | — |
| DENNIS, Richard James Parfitt | Director | 2025-02-25 | Apr 1957 | British |
| HUGHES, Gareth Robert, Major | Director | 2020-09-29 | Oct 1981 | British |
| MANSEL, Robert Courtney, Major | Director | 2025-05-01 | Nov 1976 | British |
| PUGHE-MORGAN, Jeremy Eamon Douglas, Colonel | Director | 2022-03-14 | Jul 1966 | British |
| RICHMOND, Alan Stewart, Brigadier | Director | 2010-09-24 | Mar 1966 | British |
| WHEELER, David Mark, Brigadier | Director | 2016-07-19 | Sep 1967 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DALE, Christopher Frederick | Secretary | 2013-07-19 | 2020-05-31 |
| WHEADON, Timothy Peter | Secretary | 2009-01-06 | 2013-07-18 |
| AITKEN, Robert Hanbury Tenison, Brigadier | Director | 2009-03-27 | 2014-10-30 |
| BEATSON-HIRD, Jonathan Denis | Director | 2013-10-24 | 2024-12-10 |
| BRACE, William Richard, Lt Col | Director | 2008-12-16 | 2017-03-31 |
| BRAIN, Edward Michael, Lt Col | Director | 2009-05-01 | 2013-01-18 |
| CLARK, Katherine Sylvia | Director | 2010-01-29 | 2016-07-19 |
| DALE, Christopher Frederick | Director | 2009-09-01 | 2021-06-18 |
| DAVIES, Alun James | Director | 2013-10-31 | 2017-03-31 |
| DAVIS, Richard, Lt Col (Rtd) | Director | 2012-01-26 | 2016-07-19 |
| JONES, Dan Clayton | Director | 2017-10-20 | 2022-03-14 |
| NICHOLSON, George Howard Joseph | Director | 2009-10-14 | 2014-03-31 |
| SMITH, Howard Campbell, Major | Director | 2017-07-05 | 2025-05-01 |
| WARDLE, Russell Nicholas, Brig (Rtd) | Director | 2014-10-30 | 2019-11-25 |
| WHEADON, Timothy Peter, Masor Retd | Director | 2008-12-16 | 2013-07-18 |
| WISHER, Peter Saville | Director | 2009-02-06 | 2014-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Christopher Frederick Dale Jp, Mih | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-06-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 102 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-11-03 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-11-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-04-01 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-04-01 CC04 Statement of companys objects
- 2022-04-01 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2024-12-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-03 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-11-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2023-12-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-11-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-04-01 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-04-01 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2022-04-01 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-03-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-03-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
0%
£326,690 £326,614
-
Cash
+25.6%
£355,561 £446,710
-
Net assets
+8.6%
£627,910 £682,223
-
Employees
-9.1%
11 10
-
Operating profit
-17.4%
£70,813 £58,472
-
Profit before tax
-25.4%
£72,841 £54,313
-
Wages
-1.6%
£218,328 £214,889
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers