Elite Cambridge club asks members for £50,000 to keep it open
by Archie Bland from World news | The Guardian on (#57RB1)
Pitt Club, founded in 1835, faces financial crisis after losing rental income from Pizza Express
It has survived a wartime recruitment crisis, a disastrous fire and a horrible scarcity of whisky". Now a Cambridge University members' club is facing a surprising new challenge to its survival: the lockdown misfortunes of Pizza Express.
One hundred and eighty-five years after it was founded, the university's Pitt Club - whose alumni include John Maynard Keynes, John Cleese and the Prince of Wales - is so close to financial catastrophe that it has been forced to make a desperate appeal to its lifetime members.
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