Friends of Maccabi Limited

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Friends Of Maccabi Limited was a private company in Glasgow, incorporated on 17 October 1989 as Asterford Limited and dissolved on 23 January 1998 after a voluntary strike-off.[1][2] Its company number was SC120829 and its registered office was 266 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5RL,[2][3] the office of the solicitors Levy & McRae.[4] One of its directors, Tony Caplan, had joined Levy & McRae as an apprentice and later became its senior partner; he left the firm in 2003 and rejoined it as a partner in 2016.[5] Its name matches the Friends of Maccabi fundraising group that supported the Maccabi youth and sports club in Glasgow, now Glasgow Maccabi, described in the history of the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust.[6]

Company record

OpenCorporates records the company as a private limited company, previously named Asterford Limited, with the activity code 93.05 ("other service activities not elsewhere classified").[2] Its filings, as listed there, were:[2]

  • 27 October 1995 – accounts for a small company, made up to 31 December 1994
  • 15 November 1995 – annual return made up to 17 October 1995, with a full list of members
  • 10 September 1996 – accounts for a small company, made up to 31 December 1995
  • 29 October 1996 – annual return made up to 17 October 1996, no change of members
  • 27 March 1997 – a director resigned (name not shown)
  • 24 July 1997 – application for striking off
  • 12 September 1997 – first Gazette notice for voluntary strike-off
  • 23 January 1998 – final Gazette notice: dissolved via voluntary strike-off

The two strike-off notices appeared in the Edinburgh Gazette:

  • 12 September 1997, Issue 24262, p. 2316 (first notice)[7]
  • 23 January 1998, Issue 24334, p. 147 (final notice)[8]

Both notices print the name as "Friends of MacCabi Limited".[9]

Companies House no longer holds a company page for SC120829. Its dissolved companies index gives the incorporation and dissolution dates, and says the registered office at dissolution is "not available".[1] The company is not on the current or former Scottish Charity Register.[10]

Directors and officers

OpenCorporates counts six officers for the company but does not show their names publicly.[2] Commercial company-check websites that republish Companies House data name the following people.

Name Role Dates Source
Philip Minster Company secretary from 17 October 1989 (Company Director Check) or 4 June 1991 (CompaniesList) to 23 January 1998 [11][3]
Philip Minster Director from 4 June 1991 [12]
Monte Arthur Marco Director 4 June 1991 – 23 January 1998 [13]
Anthony Max Caplan Director from 17 December 1991 [14]
Lionel Maurice Davidson Director 17 December 1991 – 14 June 1995 (the date of his death) [15]
Geoffrey Philip Ognall Officer (role not given) not given [16]

These listings name five people. Philip Minster held two of the appointments, which may account for the sixth. None of these listings names a director appointed before 4 June 1991; the company was formed as Asterford Limited.[2]

The Jewish Chronicle obituary of Lionel Davidson (born in Glasgow on 18 May 1932, died in Glasgow on 14 June 1995) calls him "Mr Maccabi" and "the inspiration and instigator of Glasgow Maccabi's highly successful fund-raising arm, Friends of Maccabi".[17] The director's appointment ended on 14 June 1995, the date of death given in the obituary.[15] According to the obituary, Davidson was a founder member of the Maccabi '68 committee and served Glasgow Maccabi as vice-chairman, chairman, vice-president and president.[17] Beyond Glasgow, it says he was vice-chairman of Maccabi Union GB for eight years, vice-chairman of the European Maccabi Confederation, and a member of the International Maccabiah Committee and the Maccabi World Union executive.[17] The Maccabi World Union lists a Lionel Davidson of Great Britain among those honoured at its Yakir Maccabi ceremonies of 1993 and 1997.[18]

In 1988 Anthony Caplan set the questions, together with Michael Shenkin, for a Glasgow Friends of Maccabi fundraising evening.[19] In March 1991 the Jewish Chronicle named Philip Minster as chairman of Glasgow Maccabi.[20] Minster was born in 1944, registered in Pollok, Glasgow.[21] The Land Register title sheet for the Maccabi Building gives the address of Doreen Minster, one of the two trustees named as its tenant for the Glasgow Jewish Maccabi Association, as 14 Broom Road, Newton Mearns, Glasgow,[22] the same address, with the postcode G77 5DP, recorded for Philip Minster as the company's secretary and director in company records.[11] Philip Minster married Doreen Kane in Glasgow in 1967.[23] A Monte Marco from Glasgow played golf in Maccabi competitions in 1994 and 1996.[24]

Ognall connection

The Bizseek company listing names Geoffrey Philip Ognall among the company's officers, but gives no role or dates.[16] His current Companies House appointments list does not include the company.[25]

Companies House does list Ognall alongside two of the company's directors at Children's Aid (Scotland) Limited (SC145243). Ognall was a director from 25 October 1993 to 15 January 1997. Anthony Max Caplan was a director from 1 July 1993 to 30 June 2014 and was appointed again on 30 June 2014. Monte Arthur Marco was a director from 1 July 1993 to 17 November 2008 and the company secretary from 1 July 1993 to 30 June 2014.[26]

Maccabi, May Terrace and the Community Trust

Ken Smith's 2024 history of the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust describes how the Trust supported Maccabi's move to May Terrace in Giffnock.[6] According to Smith:

  • The Trust bought the May Terrace synagogue so that the Giffnock congregation could build elsewhere, and offered Maccabi the former Tudor cinema as a temporary home.
  • It then paid for temporary accommodation beside May Terrace, so that Maccabi could sell the Tudor and take over the synagogue site. The Trust kept ownership and let Maccabi use the building rent free.
  • Plans to redevelop the site were costed at £150,000. The Trust offered £50,000, and the scheme was later scaled back.
  • After the move, membership rose from 220 to 350.
  • Trust members were satisfied that Friends of Maccabi, "which had also been set up", was raising money successfully, so the Trust was not Maccabi's only source of support.
  • Maccabi later brought a five-year plan, costed at £360,000, for a new building, more car parking, a gymnasium and a house. By 1990 the Trust had given Maccabi £140,000.

The Zionist Year Book for 1964–65 gives the address of the Glasgow Maccabi Association as The Tudor, Fenwick Road, Giffnock.[27] The Giffnock congregation used the May Terrace building from 1938 to 1968.[28]

Timeline

  • Before 1968: Davidson's obituary gives Turriff Street as Maccabi's old premises.[17] The Zionist Year Book gives 16 Turriff Street, Glasgow, for 1951–52 and 1961–62,[29] and The Tudor, Giffnock, for 1964–65.
  • 1968: the Giffnock congregation left May Terrace. Davidson was a founder member of the Maccabi '68 committee.[17] This fits Smith's account of Maccabi moving into the former synagogue site after the congregation left.
  • December 1988: Glasgow Friends of Maccabi ran a "Question of Sport" evening at the Albany Hotel. Twenty-seven teams and 270 people took part, Emlyn Hughes presided, and footballers including Richard Gough and Graeme Souness took part.[19] The fundraising group was therefore active about ten months before the company was incorporated.
  • 17 October 1989: the company was incorporated as Asterford Limited.[1][2]
  • 1990: by this year the Community Trust had given Maccabi £140,000.[6]
  • 1991: Philip Minster was chairman of Glasgow Maccabi in March, and Allan Kay was a vice-president.[20] Company Director Check gives Minster's appointment as company secretary from 17 October 1989,[11] while CompaniesList gives 4 June 1991;[3] his appointment as director dates from 4 June 1991, and Caplan's and Davidson's as directors from 17 December 1991.
  • 1994 and 1997: the Jewish Chronicle gives May Terrace, Giffnock, as Glasgow Maccabi's address in July 1994, and lists the Maccabi Youth and Social Centre at May Terrace in February 1997.[30]
  • June 1995: Davidson died. The company's last accounts were made up to 31 December 1995.[2]
  • 17 November 1997: the 125-year leases of the Maccabi Centre buildings took effect, between the first strike-off notice and the company's dissolution. The Land Register title sheets name the trustees of the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust as landlord and do not mention the company.[22][31][32]
  • 1997–98: a director resigned in March 1997, the company applied to be struck off in July 1997, and it was dissolved on 23 January 1998.[2][8]

The sources differ on when Friends of Maccabi began. Smith describes it as having "also been set up" in the period after the move to May Terrace.[6] The Jewish Chronicle shows it raising funds by 1988 and credits Davidson as its instigator, without giving a founding date.[19][17] The limited company dates only from October 1989. The surviving record does not show when the fundraising ended, but the last accounts are for 1995 and the strike-off application followed in July 1997.[2]

Taken together, these sources suggest that the fundraising group is older than the company, and that the company record covers only its final years, from October 1989 to the strike-off application of July 1997.[19][1][2]

The Jewish Year Book lists the office bearers of the Maccabi Youth Centre for the period. In 1983 the chairman was A. Fasin and the honorary secretary was Mrs S. Simpson.[33] In 1986 they were A. Kay and Mrs S. Simpson.[34] In 1989 they were E. Simpson and Mrs D. Minster.[35]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Companies House, dissolved companies search: "Friends of Maccabi Limited", SC120829, accessed 27 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 OpenCorporates, "FRIENDS OF MACCABI LIMITED (SC120829)", accessed 27 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Companieslist.co.uk company listing, "FRIENDS OF MACCABI LIMITED", accessed 27 October 2026.
  4. ↑ Glasgow Online business listing, "Levy & McRae, Glasgow (St Vincent Street)", accessed 27 October 2026; archived copy of 13 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Scottish Legal News, "Levy & McRae appoints construction law specialist as partner", accessed 27 October 2026.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Ken Smith, More Than a Helping Hand: The History of the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust, Glasgow: Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, 2024, pp. 68–72. Publisher's listing: SJAC shop, accessed 27 October 2026.
  7. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette, Issue 24262, 12 September 1997, p. 2316, accessed 27 October 2026.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Edinburgh Gazette, Issue 24334, 23 January 1998, p. 147, accessed 27 October 2026.
  9. ↑ The Gazette, notice search for "friends of maccabi", accessed 27 October 2026.
  10. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download and former charities download, accessed 26 October 2026.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Company Director Check officer listing, republishing Companies House data, "Philip Minster", accessed 27 October 2026.
  12. ↑ CompanyRank.ai officer profile, "Mr. Philip Minster", accessed 27 October 2026.
  13. ↑ Company Director Check officer listing, "Monte Arthur Marco", accessed 27 October 2026.
  14. ↑ CompanyRank.ai officer profile, "Mr Anthony Max Caplan", accessed 27 October 2026.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Company Director Check officer listing, "Lionel Maurice Davidson", accessed 27 October 2026.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Bizseek company listing, "Friends of Maccabi Limited", search-result text, accessed 27 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 "Lionel Davidson" (obituary), Jewish Chronicle, 28 July 1995, p. 17 (screenshot).
  18. ↑ Maccabi World Union, "Yakir Maccabi Ceremony", accessed 27 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 "Maccabi questions for soccer stars", Jewish Chronicle, 2 December 1988, p. 12 (screenshot).
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Maccabi split over membership policy", Jewish Chronicle, 8 March 1991, p. 10 (screenshot).
  21. ↑ National Records of Scotland, ScotlandsPeople, Statutory Registers – Births index, 1944, Philip Minster, Pollok, reference 644/18 1254.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Registers of Scotland, Land Register title sheet REN98616 (The Maccabi Building, May Terrace, Giffnock), first registered 14 May 1999, copy obtained 27 October 2026.
  23. ↑ National Records of Scotland, ScotlandsPeople, Statutory Registers – Marriages index, 1967, Philip Minster and Doreen Kane, Glasgow, reference 644/8 431.
  24. ↑ Jewish Chronicle, 24 June 1994, p. 18; 14 June 1996, p. 23 (screenshot).
  25. ↑ Companies House, "Geoffrey Philip OGNALL – appointments", accessed 27 October 2026.
  26. ↑ Companies House, "CHILDREN'S AID (SCOTLAND) LIMITED (SC145243) – officers", accessed 27 October 2026.
  27. ↑ Zionist Year Book, 1964–1965, p. 202.
  28. ↑ JCR-UK, "Giffnock & Newlands Synagogue", JewishGen, accessed 27 October 2026.
  29. ↑ Zionist Year Book, 1951–1952, p. 95; 1961–1962, p. 195.
  30. ↑ Jewish Chronicle, 1 July 1994, p. 16; 21 February 1997, p. 32.
  31. ↑ Registers of Scotland, Land Register title sheet REN98617 (May Terrace, Giffnock), first registered 14 May 1999, title sheet updated to 20 November 2025, copy obtained 27 October 2026.
  32. ↑ Registers of Scotland, Land Register title sheet REN98619 (Carers Building, May Terrace, Giffnock), first registered 14 May 1999, copy obtained 27 October 2026.
  33. ↑ Jewish Year Book, 1983, p. 125.
  34. ↑ Jewish Year Book, 1986, p. 132.
  35. ↑ Jewish Year Book, 1989, p. 137.
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