The Clink Training Restaurant, operating from HMP Brixton, has launched Clink@Home

Delivering to homes within a five-mile radius of HMP Brixton covering Brixton, Crystal Palace, Mitcham, Camberwell, Putney, Battersea and over the river into Westminster, Fulham and Mayfair. Serving customers a delicious range of dishes via a new online ordering service, orders can be placed for deliveries each week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday between 10:00-17:00 with two-hour delivery slot confirmed on the day.

The new service can be accessed via  https://athome.theclinkcharity.org/

Choose from a range of delicious dishes

Choosing from starters, mains, sides and desserts plus a range of soft drinks and retail lines including Clink aprons, tea towels and cookbooks, orders come with a minimum £35 spend which includes personal delivery in a refrigerated van from The Clink team.

With starters from £3.95 and mains from £8.00, diners can enjoy popular Clink dishes such as sun-dried tomato and parmesan arancini with rocket pesto, sea bream en papillote with Mediterranean vegetables and salsa verde, soy and ginger Asian greens, sweet potato katsu curry with steamed rice and summer fruit crumble with crème anglaise. The menu includes vegetarian and vegan dishes and all other allergen information is listed.

Continuing training

Chris Moore, Clink Charity Chief Executive comments: ‘We are delighted to offer our new service, Clink@Home to our customers from The Clink restaurant at HMP Brixton. The menu has been specially designed by our Chef trainers at Brixton so customers can heat and serve freshly prepared dishes at home. Prepared in our kitchens at The Clink Brixton, our Chef trainers are supported by our students in training to create the menu, allowing us to help them to continue their work towards their City and Guilds National Vocational qualifications.

Our team at Brixton have been amazing, providing takeaway meals for HMP Brixton staff on duty during the lockdown and also a take-home facility for them via our Clink&Collect service, and they are all are looking forward to serving the public again through this initiative.’

Adjusting services during the pandemic

The Clink operates restaurants in four prisons across England and Wales including Brixton and due to restrictions across the prison network, The Clink is unable to open its restaurants to the public despite the eased restrictions coming into force in early July. This new service ensures The Clink is able to continue its training programme. HMP Brixton staff have enjoyed the restaurants Clink&Collect service to support Brixton’s key workers during the lockdown, providing the basis to launch Clink@Home for the public.

Clink students are training to gain their City and Guilds level 2 National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) in Food Preparation and Cookery in a real-life working environment getting them work ready for when they are released in order to gain fulltime employment.

Using ingredients from The Clink Gardens at HMP Send

All the food prepared in Clink kitchens, where possible is British, fresh, local and seasonal. The Clink only uses the finest ingredients, and everything is made from scratch. Our vegetables, salad and eggs come from The Clink Gardens located at HMP Send where the women in training work towards gaining their City and Guilds NVQ level 2 in horticulture.

Using the service supports training at The Clink; by ordering from Clink@Home, customers are helping us deliver important training within prisons as we continue to change attitudes, transform lives, and create second chances which ultimately reduces reoffending.

The Clink proves value to society 

A recent report issued by The Charity details the investment of over £5m of philanthropic grants and donations to build its training restaurants and gardens in prison since opening its doors 10 years ago. The programme estimates it has created savings of £38m to the taxpayer during The Clink’s tenure through its targeted programme to reduce reoffending.

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