The Clink Charity is a training initiative which offers prisoners hospitality training and work experience helping them find employment on release. It has just announced the launch of a new catering arm Clink Events.

The charity already operates Clink Restaurants at HMP High Down, HMP Cardiff and HMP Brixton. Clink Events is a wider scheme. Food prepared by prisoners training in the restaurant kitchens at HMP High Down in Surrey and HMP Brixton in London is delivered to event venues within the M25.

Clink Events offers an array of canapés and bowl food for receptions and standing parties of up to 500 people. Clink Events menus can include items such as pulled pork & lime apple crostini with crispy sage leaves, slow braised beef cheeks with red wine and porcini mushrooms, pilaf rice, aubergine caviar with rosemary pita bread and handmade chocolate & rum truffles.

Clink Events has established a collaborative partnership with Centrepoint, the UK’s leading young homeless charity, to provide a full service, from the food creation through to serving at an event. Candidates from Centrepoint undergo a short training programme to equip them with the confidence, knowledge and skill to serve guests food and drink.

Clink Events work alongside and promotes other work-based prisoner training projects using, for example, bread from the Bad Boys Bakery and uniforms from the tailoring workshop at HMP Brixton which works with the London College of Fashion.

Details:  www.theclinkrestaurant.com