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Beloved London restaurant the India Club is pushing ahead with a legal challenge against its eviction following a successful crowdfund campaign.
The restaurant was served with a notice to vacate its premises on The Strand, where it has operated for more than 50 years, by its property-developer landlord, Marston Properties, back in January.
In response the restaurant s owner
launched a crowdfund to help pay for the legal costs of challenging the eviction, and
Lasting for 83 days in total, the
crowdfund eventually came to an end yesterday (15 April) and raised £49,381 from 1,597 donations, plus more than £7,000 in gift aid.
In a recent update published earlier this week before the crowdfund closed, the India Club thanked those who had donated for their support and confirmed it had raised enough to proceed with the legal challenge.
The campaign to save the India Club from eviction
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Saved from developers, the venerable India Club in central London is now facing eviction after the landlord has decided to hike the rent in order to get rid of the troublesome tenant.
Hidden away up a narrow flight of stairs inside the Hotel Strand Continental, the India Club, founded as a club, was set up in 1951 by the Indian politician, and India’s first High Commissioner to the UK, Krishna Menon, as a meeting place for people associated with post-Independence India.
Today it’s less an affable club than an affordable restaurant, and one that has managed to retain its clubable atmosphere in a dining room that hasn’t changed since it first opened. To walk inside is to walk back 70 years.