Who we are
Dragon Gaming is a member-led tabletop RPG club network, intially across Cardiff and South Wales. We run local communities, called guilds, where people come together to play D&D and other tabletop roleplaying games. Whether you’re a seasoned adventurer or have never rolled a d20 in your life, there’s a seat at the table for you.
We’re a not-for-profit organisation: a Community Interest Company (CIC), registered in England and Wales. That’s a specific legal structure, and it shapes everything about how we operate, so we explain below what it actually means for you as a member.
But first, meet our founders:
Tim Burke
Co-founder & Director
Tim co-founded Dragon Gaming, and the original idea for the club was his. He brings a head for numbers alongside an eye for detail, from the club’s finances to the artwork you see across the site. He’s committed to making sure Dragon Gaming is run properly and transparently, for the benefit of its members.
Currently running D&D5e
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Andy Murtagh
Co-founder & Director
Andy co-founded Dragon Gaming and helps steer the club’s direction and growth. With a long history running companies, he brings a wealth of valuable business experience to the team. He’s passionate about building a gaming community that genuinely puts its members first.
Currently playing D&D5e
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Andy Greenway
Co-founder & Director
Andy co-founded Dragon Gaming and keeps the wheels turning day to day, from the website to the wider running of the club. He shaped the overall look and feel of the site, and is driven by making tabletop gaming as welcoming and easy to get into as possible, whoever you are.
Currently playing D&D5e
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
What is a Community Interest Company?
A CIC is a type of company that exists to benefit a community rather than to make money for owners or shareholders. It sits between a traditional business and a registered charity: we have the flexibility to trade and run a business (selling memberships, running events, and so on), but we’re legally locked into reinvesting that income back into the guilds and our members. Each guild chooses its own charity to support each year, so the benefit reaches beyond our own tables too.
For Dragon Gaming, the purpose is simple: growing a welcoming, accessible tabletop gaming community and supporting the charities that mean something to our members.
What the “asset lock” means for you
The most important protection built into our CIC structure is the asset lock. In plain terms:
- No director, founder, or member can ever take profit or surplus funds out of Dragon Gaming for personal gain.
- Any money we hold, and any surplus we generate, has to stay working for the community: covering venue costs, buying equipment, running sessions, supporting and growing our guilds or donating to charity.
- If Dragon Gaming were ever wound up, our remaining assets couldn’t just be split between the directors. By law, they’d have to go to another asset-locked body with a similar community purpose.
We’ve named SpecialEffect, a charity that helps disabled people play video games, as that body. It’s a cause our founding team already supports through GameBlast, an annual fundraising marathon, so it felt like a natural fit.
Practically, this means every membership fee, every Dragon Guild Mark, every penny raised goes back into the organisation or a charity, not into anyone’s pocket.
How we’re run
Dragon Gaming is led by a small board of volunteer directors, who are responsible for the organisation’s finances, legal compliance, and overall direction. Day-to-day, each local guild is run by its own Guild Council, elected annually by that guild’s members. Council members handle everything from session scheduling to guild finances to member welfare, so decisions are made by the people actually playing, not imposed from above.
We publish our approach to guild finances in our Financial Transparency Policy, and how guilds are structured and governed in our Guild Structure & Governance Policy.
Where we came from
Dragon Gaming started with a simple frustration: a group of friends who loved tabletop gaming, but felt the options didn’t quite match what they wanted to build. They wanted something properly member-led, where the people playing the games also had a real say in how things were run. Something transparent, where everyone could see where the money went. And something with a cast-iron guarantee that it would never be run for anyone’s private profit.
So they built it. We formally registered as a CIC to make that guarantee permanent, written into our legal structure rather than just a promise on a webpage.
Want to see the legal detail?
Because we’re a CIC, our community purpose and asset lock aren’t just promises, they’re a matter of public record. You can view our official filings, including our Community Interest Statement, on the Companies House website:
Companies House filing: Dragon Gaming CIC, company no. 17309356 →
Have a question about how Dragon Gaming is run? Get in touch at [email protected].