The Dispossessed Fund: Restaurants aid London’s poor with £1 from Easter dining bills

 
28 March 2013

Top London restaurants hope to raise thousands of pounds for the Evening Standard’s Dispossessed Fund by making a £1 donation from bills over the Easter weekend.

All restaurants in the D&D London group — including Le Pont de la Tour, Skylon, Launceston Place, Blueprint Café, Kensington Place and the recently launched New Street Grill at the Old Bengal Warehouse in the City — will participate from lunch tomorrow until the last dinner served on Easter Monday. Diners’ donations are discretionary but for every table that agrees to pay the company will give a matching £1 to the fund.

Des Gunewardena and David Loewi of D&D said: “As well as enjoying ourselves, Easter should also be a time to think about all of those Londoners who are not as fortunate in being able to afford to do that. Which is why this Easter weekend we have decided to support the Standard’s Dispossessed Fund.

“We at D&D think it’s a brilliant and thoughtful initiative that since 2010 has helped more than 100,000 Londoners who are living below the poverty line.” D&D London now owns and operates 30 restaurants in London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. Last year the company launched its first hotel, South Place, in London.

Since the Dispossessed Fund was launched in 2010 it has raised more than £10 million for London’s poorest people, breaking all records for a newspaper-created charity.

The landmark was passed after Comic Relief announced it was giving the award-winning fund £1 million, to be distributed to more than 50 grassroots groups across the capital.

The total raised now stands at £10.4 million, far exceeding our original target of £1 million set less than three years ago.

The restaurants participating in the fund-raising are: Almeida, Bluebird, Blueprint Café, Butlers Wharf Chop House, Cantina del Ponte, Carom, Floridita, Kensington Place, Launceston Place, Le Pont de la Tour, New Street Grill (Sunday only), Old Bengal Bar (Sunday only), Orrery, Plateau, Quaglino’s, Sartoria, Skylon and 3 South Place.

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