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{{Infobox company
| name = Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited
| logo =
| type = Private limited company (dissolved)
| former_name = Renamed NCJ Realisation Limited in April 2020
| foundation = {{Start date|1969|9|12|df=y}}
| defunct = {{End date|2022|9|20|df=y}}
| location = London
| industry = Newspaper publishing
| products = ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]''
| parent = [[Jewish Chronicle Limited]]
| homepage =
}}
'''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.<ref name="CH961929">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00961929 NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): overview], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref>

== Formation and the 1969 trust structure ==
The company was incorporated on 12 September 1969.<ref name="CH961929" /> 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]].<ref name="Ces225">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 225.</ref>

== 2019 refinancing ==
In June 2019 ''The Jewish Chronicle'' reported that it had received new funding from its parent, the [[The Jacob Foundation|Kessler Foundation]], after about 20 individuals, families and charitable trusts donated to the foundation, and that [[Alan Jacobs (born 1962)|Alan Jacobs]] had replaced [[Stephen Grabiner]] as chairman.<ref name="JC2019">[https://www.thejc.com/news/good-news-about-the-future-of-the-jc-yb1zx7yj Good news about the future of the JC] ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 20 June 2019, accessed 7 November 2026.</ref> 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.<ref name="CH961929FH">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00961929/filing-history NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): filing history], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref><ref name="CH961929PSC">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00961929/persons-with-significant-control NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): persons with significant control], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref>

== 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.<ref name="CH961929FH" /> 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.<ref name="CH961929Ins">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00961929/insolvency NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): insolvency], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref> 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".<ref name="Jacobs2020">Alan Jacobs, [https://www.thejc.com/news/thanks-to-staff-donors-and-readers-qazyrw2y Thanks to staff, donors and readers] ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 23 April 2020, accessed 7 November 2026.</ref> The title passed to [[Jewish Chronicle Media Limited]].

== Officers ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ 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 Jacobs (born 1962)|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 Birk|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 Oppenheimer (born 1938)|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
|-
| [[Ned Temko|Edward James (Ned) Temko]] || Director || November 1952 || 10 March 1995 || 6 May 2005
|}
Source:<ref name="CH961929Off">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00961929/officers NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): officers] (two pages), accessed 7 November 2026.</ref>

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

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:Companies|Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited]]
[[Category:Media|Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited]]
[[Category:Jewish organisations in London|Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited]]

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 == 2019 refinancing ==
-In June 2019 ''The Jewish Chronicle'' reported that it had received new funding from its parent, the [[The Jacob Foundation|Kessler Foundation]], after about 20 individuals, families and charitable trusts donated to the foundation, and that [[Alan Jacobs (born 1962)|Alan Jacobs]] had replaced [[Stephen Grabiner]] as chairman.<ref name="JC2019">[https://www.thejc.com/news/good-news-about-the-future-of-the-jc-yb1zx7yj Good news about the future of the JC] ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 20 June 2019, accessed 7 November 2026.</ref> 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.<ref name="CH961929FH">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00961929/filing-history NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): filing history], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref><ref name="CH961929PSC">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00961929/persons-with-significant-control NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): persons with significant control], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref>
+In June 2019 ''The Jewish Chronicle'' reported that it had received new funding from its parent, the [[The Jacob Foundation|Kessler Foundation]], after about 20 individuals, families and charitable trusts donated to the foundation, and that [[Alan Jacobs (born 1962)|Alan Jacobs]] had replaced [[Stephen Grabiner]] as chairman.<ref name="JC2019">[https://www.thejc.com/news/good-news-about-the-future-of-the-jc-yb1zx7yj Good news about the future of the JC] ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 20 June 2019, accessed 7 November 2026.</ref> 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.<ref name="CH961929FH">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00961929/filing-history NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): filing history], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref><ref name="CH961929PSC">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00961929/persons-with-significant-control NCJ Realisation Limited (00961929): persons with significant control], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref>
 == Liquidation, 2020 ==

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