Trevor Chinn

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Sir Trevor Edwin Chinn CVO (born 24 July 1935) is a British businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. He is a Labour Party supporter and donor as well as active in Jewish and pro-Israel causes.

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Business career

Chinn was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge, and started his career at Lex Garages (later Lex Service plc) where he followed in his father Rosser's footsteps, ascending to the role of managing director in 1968 at the age of 33 and to chairman and Chief Executive in 1973. In 1968 Lex made £1m in profits, but by the time he retired in 2003 the profits were over £85m. His most notable achievement at Lex was the acquisition of the RAC in 1999 for £425m, [1] which completely changed the nature of the company and led to its change of name in 2001 to RAC plc. In 1989 he initiated the Lex Report on Motoring (now the RAC Report on Motoring), the most authoritative study of motorists' attitudes in Britain.

He has become a successful entrepreneur. He is Senior Adviser, CVC Capital Partners; Chairman of ITIS plc, a traffic information company; and Chairman of Streetcar, the largest UK pay-as-you-go car club, concentrating its operations around London and five other UK cities.

Public roles

Chinn's leadership roles include Chief Barker of the Variety Club of Great Britain for two successive terms (1977 and 1978), Chairman of the Friends of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme (for which he was appointed CVO in 1989), Vice-chairman of the Wishing Well Appeal for Great Ormond Street Hospital (for which he received a knighthood in 1990), and Deputy Chairman of the Royal Academy Trust. [2] [3] [ citation needed ]

Described as a Jewish community grandee, [4] throughout his life he has also devoted himself to the Jewish community in Britain and supporting Israel in a number of roles, for example: chairman and President of the Joint Israel Appeal, the leading organisation in Britain supporting Israel's humanitarian needs; board member of The Jewish Community Centre for London, President of Norwood from 1996 to 2006; one of the founders of the Jewish Association for Business Ethics (and now vice-president). Chinn sits on the executive committee of the Jewish Leadership Council and the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM). [5] In 2016, he became President of the Movement for Reform Judaism. [4]

He was Chair of the London Mayor's Fund, [6] and chair of the government's Motorists' Forum.[ citation needed ]

Chinn is a Labour Party supporter. Up to 2016, Chinn donated to the office or campaigns of a number of Labour politicians, including MPs Tony Blair, Ruth Smeeth, Liz Kendall, Tom Watson and Dan Jarvis. [7] [8] Since 2016, he has additionally financially supported the MPs Ivan Lewis, Owen Smith, Lisa Nandy, Tristram Hunt, Jack Dromey, Ian Austin, Rachel Reeves, Liam Byrne and Wes Streeting. [9] [10] [ non-primary source needed ] In February 2020, he donated £50,000 to support the Labour party leadership election campaign of Keir Starmer. [11] Chinn is a long-time supporter of Labour Friends of Israel and has also donated to charities working for reconciliation and peace between Jews and Arabs including the New Israel Fund and Yachad. [12] [13] [11]

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  2. ↑ "Trevor Chinn – 1977/78". Variety, the Children's Charity. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  3. ↑ "Sir Trevor Chinn". Philanthropy Impact. September 2008. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  4. 1 2 Oryszczuk, Stephen (28 June 2016). "Reform Judaism appoint Sir Trevor Chinn as new president". Jewish News. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "Sir Trevor Chinn CVO". Jewish Leadership Council. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  6. ↑ Thompson, Susan, Business Big Shot Sir Trevor Chinn June 2008, The Times. Retrieved February 2011 Archived 7 July 2012 at archive.today
  7. ↑ Moyes, Jojo (18 November 1996). "Multi-millionaires who keep Blair in his office". The Independent. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  8. ↑ "Sir Trevor Chinn becomes latest Labour donor to fund the Dan Jarvis machine". totalpolitics. 21 April 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  9. ↑ "Register of Interests for Wes Streeting". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  10. ↑ "Donor: Trevor Chinn". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  11. 1 2 Harpin, Lee (20 April 2020). "Hard-left attacks Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer after donation from Jewish philanthropist". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
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  13. ↑ Pierce, Andrew (18 November 1997). "Blair's chance to raise cash for Pounds 1m refund". The Times.
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