Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited

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Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited

Type Private limited company (dissolved)
Defunct 20 September 2022
Headquarters London
Industry Newspaper publishing
Parent Jewish Chronicle Limited

Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited (company 00961929) was the company that held the title of The Jewish Chronicle from 1969 until it was placed in liquidation in April 2020. It was renamed NCJ Realisation Limited and dissolved in September 2022.[1]

Formation and the 1969 trust structure

The company was incorporated on 12 September 1969.[1] According to the historian David Cesarani, the trust arrangement announced by David Kessler was completed in October 1969: Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Ltd held the title and goodwill, its 'A' shares were held by Jewish Chronicle Limited, and 99 per cent of its 'B' shares, which carried powers over the appointment or removal of the editor and managing director, were held by Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited.[2]

2019 refinancing

In June 2019 The Jewish Chronicle reported that it had received new funding from its parent, the Kessler Foundation, after about 20 individuals, families and charitable trusts donated to the foundation, and that Alan Jacobs had replaced Stephen Grabiner as chairman.[3] Companies House records Jacobs's appointment and Grabiner's resignation on 21 June 2019, a charge created that day, and Jewish Chronicle Limited replacing Clive Wolman as the company's person with significant control from the same date.[4][5]

Liquidation, 2020

The company passed a resolution to change its name on 22 April 2020 and an extraordinary resolution to wind up on 23 April 2020.[4] Its creditors' voluntary liquidation began on 23 April 2020, with Kirstie Jane Provan and Mark Robert Fry of Begbies Traynor appointed liquidators; the company was dissolved on 20 September 2022.[6] In an article published on 23 April 2020, Jacobs wrote that the owners had placed the paper into liquidation and agreed its sale to a consortium led by Robbie Gibb, whose offer "should see all identified creditors paid in full".[7] The title passed to Jewish Chronicle Media Limited.

Officers

Officers of Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited (Companies House)
Name Role Born (month/year) Appointed Resigned
Raymond Jonathan Harrod Director December 1977 31 January 2014 —
Alan Steven Jacobs Director January 1962 21 June 2019 —
Stephen Pollard Director December 1964 7 January 2014 —
Debbie Rose Director August 1973 8 June 2018 —
Richard Andrew Fass Secretary before 26 December 1991 11 December 2007
Gerard Alphonsus McCarthy Secretary 16 October 2007 4 December 2017
Tracy Abraham Director March 1971 31 December 2010 31 January 2014
Ellis Samuel Birk Director October 1915 before 26 December 1991 12 January 1995
Richard Louis Bolchover Director August 1960 26 July 2004 31 December 2010
Richard Burton Director February 1954 31 January 2014 5 January 2016
Julia Sarah Chain Director June 1957 25 January 2005 31 December 2010
Lord Clinton-Davis Director December 1928 before 26 December 1991 31 January 1992
Shimon David Cohen Director May 1960 1 November 1994 9 September 2003
Sarah Ebner Director June 1971 7 March 2016 31 May 2018
Richard Andrew Fass Director September 1945 1 May 1992 11 December 2007
Daniel Finkelstein Director August 1962 14 March 2011 22 October 2013
William Frankel Director February 1917 before 26 December 1991 12 January 1995
Lionel Lawrence Gordon Director August 1933 before 26 December 1991 25 January 2005
Stephen Grabiner Director September 1958 22 October 2013 21 June 2019
Stephen Grabiner Director September 1958 1 May 2005 12 December 2008
Jeffrey Michael Greenwood Director April 1935 before 26 December 1991 19 April 2005
Cameron Hay Director January 1967 31 January 2014 26 August 2016
Anthony Julius Director July 1956 18 January 2011 22 October 2013
Daniel Benjamin Kessler Director July 1971 22 October 2004 31 December 2010
David Kessler Director June 1906 before 26 December 1991 31 December 1991
Robin Matthew Klein Director December 1947 18 May 2009 15 September 2009
Peter Lawrence Levy Director November 1939 1 November 1994 18 May 2009
Paul Julian Mann Director March 1968 31 December 2010 22 October 2013
Michael Henry Marx Director June 1947 14 March 2011 22 October 2013
Gerard Alphonsus McCarthy Director January 1958 31 January 2014 4 December 2017
Sidney Norman Moss Director February 1927 before 26 December 1991 4 October 1991
Peter Morris Oppenheimer Director April 1938 before 26 December 1991 10 January 2006
Wendy Flora Pollecoff Director October 1957 1 May 1992 13 January 1993
Debbie Rose Director August 1973 1 September 2016 8 June 2018
Alan Rubenstein Director June 1943 1 September 2003 4 September 2011
Edward James (Ned) Temko Director November 1952 10 March 1995 6 May 2005

Source:[8]

Companies House lists appointments made before December 1991 only as "appointed before" the start of its electronic records.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Companies House, NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): overview, accessed 7 November 2026.
  2. ↑ David Cesarani, The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 225.
  3. ↑ Good news about the future of the JC The Jewish Chronicle, 20 June 2019, accessed 7 November 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Companies House, NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): filing history, accessed 7 November 2026.
  5. ↑ Companies House, NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): persons with significant control, accessed 7 November 2026.
  6. ↑ Companies House, NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): insolvency, accessed 7 November 2026.
  7. ↑ Alan Jacobs, Thanks to staff, donors and readers The Jewish Chronicle, 23 April 2020, accessed 7 November 2026.
  8. ↑ Companies House, NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): officers (two pages), accessed 7 November 2026.
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