 The first Clink Restaurant opened in 2009 at HMP High Down in Surrey, when Alberto Crisci, then catering manager, identified the need for formal training, qualifications and support for prisoners in finding a job after release.Crisci was supported by then-Governor of HMP High Down, Peter Dawson, and founder trustees Finlay Scott, Kevin McGrath, Lady Edwina Grosvenor, Tim Wates and Kate Quigley-Ruby.In 2010, Christopher Moore was appointed the charity's first CEO as part of a long-term plan to expand the prisoner training concept across Her Majesty's Prison Service.