Elite Cambridge club asks members for £50,000 to keep it open

Pitt Club, founded in 1835, faces financial crisis after losing rental income from Pizza Express * Coronavirus – latest updates * See all our coronavirus coverage 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. Continue reading...
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