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{{Infobox company
| name = Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited
| logo =
| type = Private company limited by guarantee without share capital (dissolved)
| foundation = {{Start date|1969|11|24|df=y}}
| defunct = {{End date|2021|1|19|df=y}}
| location = London
| key_people = [[Lord Goodman]] (first chairman)
| homepage =
}}
'''Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited''' (company 00966860) was a company limited by guarantee set up in 1969 to hold the controlling 'B' shares in [[Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited]], publisher of ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]''. It was struck off and dissolved on 19 January 2021.<ref name="CH966860">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00966860 Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited (00966860): overview], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref>

== Role ==
According to [[David Cesarani]], the trust was completed in October 1969 and held 99 per cent of the 'B' shares in Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Ltd, which carried powers over the appointment or removal of the editor and managing director.<ref name="Ces225">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 225.</ref> Its first chairman was [[Lord Goodman]]; independent members included the Hon. L. H. L. Cohen and [[Chaim Raphael]], with [[David Kessler]], Viscount Samuel and [[Ellis Birk]] as board nominees.<ref name="Ces226">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 226.</ref> In 1976 the trust approved [[Geoffrey Paul]] as successor to [[William Frankel]] as editor.<ref name="Ces235">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 235.</ref> Companies House records the company's incorporation on 24 November 1969.<ref name="CH966860" />

In June 2019 the publisher described the governance structure as comprising the [[The Jacob Foundation|Kessler Foundation]], "the charitable foundation which controls the JC", and the Jewish Chronicle Trust, "which was established to maintain editorial independence of the newspaper".<ref name="InPub2019">[https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/community-leaders-secure-the-future-of-the-jewish-chronicle-14590 Community Leaders Secure the Future of the Jewish Chronicle] ''InPublishing'', 21 June 2019, accessed 7 November 2026.</ref> The Kessler Foundation's chairman, [[Clive Wolman]], was quoted as saying that "we and the JC Trust decided" that preserving editorial independence had to be the primary consideration in choosing between refinancing approaches.<ref name="InPub2019" /> When the paper was sold in April 2020, its former chairman [[Alan Jacobs (born 1962)|Alan Jacobs]] wrote that the Kessler Foundation and the trust were "the two trusts which together owned the paper".<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>

== Later years ==
The company filed dormant-company accounts in its final years, the last made up to 30 June 2019. [[Anthony Grabiner]] ceased to be a director and [[person with significant control]] on 15 December 2019, and [[David Wolfson (born 1968)|David Wolfson]] was notified as person with significant control from that date. A first Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off followed on 3 November 2020.<ref name="CH966860FH">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00966860/filing-history Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited (00966860): filing history], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref>

== Directors and secretaries ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Officers of Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited (Companies House)
! Name !! Role !! Born (month/year) !! Appointed !! Resigned
|-
| Norma Susan Brier || Director || December 1949 || 5 October 2011 || —
|-
| Jonathan Stephen Paul Gumb || Director || February 1945 || 7 February 2007 || —
|-
| Wendy Flora Pollecoff || Director || October 1957 || 13 January 1994 || —
|-
| [[David Wolfson (born 1968)|David Wolfson]] || Director || July 1968 || 5 October 2011 || —
|-
| Richard Andrew Fass || Secretary || || before 30 March 1992 || 11 December 2007
|-
| Gerard Alphonsus McCarthy || Secretary || || 16 October 2007 || 4 December 2017
|-
| [[Ellis Birk|Ellis Samuel Birk]] || Director || October 1915 || before 30 March 1992 || 10 March 1995
|-
| Melvyn Ian Carlowe || Director || April 1941 || 28 July 2000 || 4 July 2011
|-
| Leonard Harold Lionel Cohen (The Honorable Mr) || Director || January 1922 || before 30 March 1992 || 31 March 2000
|-
| Susan Michelle Gilbert || Director || August 1949 || 12 December 1995 || 22 May 2000
|-
| [[Lord Goodman]] || Director || August 1913 || before 30 March 1992 || 16 November 1994
|-
| Lionel Lawrence Gordon || Director || August 1933 || 10 March 1995 || 5 January 2004
|-
| Lionel Lawrence Gordon || Director || August 1933 || 5 July 1991 || 13 January 1994
|-
| [[Anthony Grabiner]] || Director || March 1945 || 5 January 2004 || 15 December 2019
|-
| [[Greville Janner]] || Director || July 1928 || before 30 March 1992 || 6 July 1993
|-
| Brenda Katten || Director || September 1936 || before 30 March 1992 || 17 June 1998
|-
| Gabriel David Arieh Kessler || Director || April 1936 || before 30 March 1992 || 7 February 2007
|-
| Rosalind Beryl Preston || Director || December 1935 || 20 July 2000 || 4 July 2011
|-
| Leslie Wagner (Professor) || Director || February 1943 || 12 January 1999 || 10 October 2008
|-
| [[Harry Woolf]] || Director || May 1933 || 28 October 1993 || 22 November 2007
|}
Source:<ref name="CH966860Off">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00966860/officers Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited (00966860): officers], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref>

Companies House lists appointments made before March 1992 only as "appointed before" the start of its electronic records.

== Notes ==
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 == Role ==
-According to [[David Cesarani]], the trust was completed in October 1969 and held 99 per cent of the 'B' shares in Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Ltd, which carried powers over the appointment or removal of the editor and managing director.<ref name="Ces225">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 225.</ref> Its first chairman was [[Lord Goodman]]; independent members included the Hon. L. H. L. Cohen and [[Chaim Raphael]], with [[David Kessler]], Viscount Samuel and [[Ellis Birk]] as board nominees.<ref name="Ces226">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 226.</ref> In 1976 the trust approved [[Geoffrey Paul]] as successor to [[William Frankel]] as editor.<ref name="Ces235">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 235.</ref> Companies House records the company's incorporation on 24 November 1969.<ref name="CH966860" />
+According to [[David Cesarani]], the trust was completed in October 1969 and held 99 per cent of the 'B' shares in [[Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited|Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Ltd]], which carried powers over the appointment or removal of the editor and managing director.<ref name="Ces225">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 225.</ref> Its first chairman was [[Lord Goodman]]; independent members included the Hon. L. H. L. Cohen and [[Chaim Raphael]], with [[David Kessler]], Viscount Samuel and [[Ellis Birk]] as board nominees.<ref name="Ces226">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 226.</ref> In 1976 the trust approved [[Geoffrey Paul]] as successor to [[William Frankel]] as editor.<ref name="Ces235">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 235.</ref> Companies House records the company's incorporation on 24 November 1969.<ref name="CH966860" />
 In June 2019 the publisher described the governance structure as comprising the [[The Jacob Foundation|Kessler Foundation]], "the charitable foundation which controls the JC", and the Jewish Chronicle Trust, "which was established to maintain editorial independence of the newspaper".<ref name="InPub2019">[https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/community-leaders-secure-the-future-of-the-jewish-chronicle-14590 Community Leaders Secure the Future of the Jewish Chronicle] ''InPublishing'', 21 June 2019, accessed 7 November 2026.</ref> The Kessler Foundation's chairman, [[Clive Wolman]], was quoted as saying that "we and the JC Trust decided" that preserving editorial independence had to be the primary consideration in choosing between refinancing approaches.<ref name="InPub2019" /> When the paper was sold in April 2020, its former chairman [[Alan Jacobs (born 1962)|Alan Jacobs]] wrote that the Kessler Foundation and the trust were "the two trusts which together owned the paper".<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>