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Last year we supported 52% of our students into employment, with a further 24% seeking employment 🎉
Our key message to employers is: we encourage you not to overlook the contribution and value that our Clink graduates can make to your business 🤝
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Last week, Steve, our Clink Gardens Lead Trainer, attended the @the_RHS Wisley Community Forum 🥕
By showcasing what we do, he made many new connections with garden charities and other community groups across Surrey!
#RHS #ClinkGardens #ClinkCharity #Horticulture
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Have you heard about our award-winning Clink Gardens projects?
We train our students to consider the wider breadth of horticulture as an industry. Much of our fresh produce is also supplied to The Clink Restaurant in #Brixton!
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Most women will go to prison for 6 months or less. Many will lose their jobs, homes and children.
We support this campaign to stop the building of 500 women's prisons. #StopThe500
📢 CAMPAIGN LAUNCH📢The UK Government plans to build 500 new prison places for women.
Prison is a dead end, one that tears families apart. It doesn’t have to be like this. We can invest in our communities instead.
Join the campaign to #StopThe500 now campaigns.womeninprison.org.…
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Elephant & Castle is brought to a standstill as the statue that has watched over the area for more than a century, is removed from its last perch. A silent friend to many generations of local people, it will now sit at Castle Square. 🐘💔#SouthLondonHistory 📹©️: Unknown
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“Sepuya’s work captures the energy and confidence of a particular time, centralising the nude within the intimate studio setting to portray the struggle to live the truth of a black, queer male identity” ~ @stakkkiii reviews the work of artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Stacey Kennedy, @stakkkiii, reviews the artist monograph "Paul Mpagi Sepuya" (2020) @aperturefnd:
"Refusing any victim identity, Sepuya creates an intimate archive of queer lives, which documents...beauty, joy, and self-determination" of self and world africainwords.com/2020/12/16…
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Many women are imprisoned for being homeless, not having money to pay their bills and not having access to adequate mental health care & substance misuse support. This is why we must invest in community support services like women's centres, not prisons.
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Rehabilitation through the arts gets welcome boost from TV's The Choir. @GarethMalone went to Aylesbury Prison, uncovering remarkable talent from young men who'd written themselves off. First @BBCTwo prog below. 2nd follows bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d2d… #Aylesbury #changinglives
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"We thought #time was never gonna move. But it did".
🍽️ Former resident of HMP #Brixton, Mo, spoke of the support he received from the fantastic @TheClinkCharity & why he would choose to come back to a #prison street party on #release #BrixtonTurns200 #employment
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Fab report on @BBCLondonNews about @TheClinkCharity - this is one booking you must make to support this amazing work
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This week, for the first time, ex-offenders prepared and served food for a reception at 10 Downing Street. Hear from @TheClinkCharity about how they are changing attitudes, transforming lives and creating second chances.
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TWIN FLOWER
This beguiling drama, unfolding amidst the beauty of Sardinia’s sun-dappled landscape, charts the unlikely friendship between a traumatised woman and an illegal immigrant.
Fri 12th Oct 15:45
Tickets -> bit.ly/2IAa2DR
@BFI #LFF
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The Clink Charity to open Manchester café | The Caterer thecaterer.com/articles/5223…
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Prison restaurant The Clink to open Manchester café staffed by ex-inmates and homeless people dlvr.it/QK3RzQ #Manchester
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Council drops proposal to redevelop Peckhamplex and multi storey, in victory for local campaigners @Southwark_News : southwarknews.co.uk/news/cou…
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"The UK's criminal justice system would fall apart without charities." Great article from the Guardian - bit.ly/2uBt2gY
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Add some #sunshine to your day, check out the famous & local food heroes coming to #WokingFoodFest, 1-3 Sept bit.ly/WFDFchefs #Surrey
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An honour to have at #refettoriofelix @Al_Crisci and his team of @TheClinkCharity who trains prisoners to #cook to help turn lives around
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This is how London voted in the General Election standard.co.uk/news/politics…
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Battle lines being drawn up. By this time next week #dontcutthegowlettoutofpeckham will be on the move. But very much staying put.





































