The Clink Charity launches workplace catering service

The Clink Charity catering boxes and food
In 2024, The Clink Charity trained more than 800 people in prison and delivered 650 NVQ qualifications. (©Harry Pseftoudis)

Prison restaurant operator The Clink Charity has launched a new catering service aimed primarily at offices and workplaces.

Catered by Clink offers a menu spanning breakfast, lunch, sandwiches, canapé boxes, pastries and celebration cakes. All food is prepared by students and graduates from The Clink Charity’s hospitality and bakery programmes, with training delivered both inside prisons and within the community.

Participants work towards City & Guilds qualifications in professional cookery and baking, gaining practical skills, confidence and a clear pathway into employment after release, with the wider aim of reducing reoffending.

Office and workplace catering is available for delivery across London and the Home Counties.

Menu options include the High Down Collection, priced at £265 and serving 10–12 people. The package is a nod to The Clink Charity’s first restaurant at HMP Highdown, which launched the charity’s mission to reduce reoffending in 2010.

The platter includes sandwiches such as roast ham with mustard slaw, salmon and cream cheese, roast beef with pesto and rocket, and hummus and grilled vegetables, alongside a roast tomato and mozzarella tart or teriyaki salmon bites.

Bakery items are currently available for collection only, with plans in place to introduce wider delivery by spring 2026. However, Brixton brownie boxes, as well as prosecco and truffle gift boxes, are available via nationwide postal delivery.

Looking ahead, Catered by Clink plans to introduce a limited range of seasonal gift products across key gifting periods including Valentine’s Day, Easter and Christmas, offering customers a way to celebrate while supporting rehabilitation and second chances.

The Clink Charity

Founded in 2009, The Clink Charity operates restaurants within UK prisons that are open to the public, alongside bakeries at HMP Brixton and Clink Events, which serves the City of London from Downview women’s prison in Surrey and Herne Hill in south London.

The charity also runs two horticulture training programmes at HMP Send and HMP Erlestoke, as well as The Clink Training Café in south London, a community-based initiative supporting young people at risk of entering the justice system.

In 2024, The Clink Charity trained more than 800 people in prison and delivered 650 NVQ qualifications. During the same period, Clink Events catered for 218 events and provided more than 28,000 training hours for vulnerable young adults.