© 2011 Bridge Foundation Inc

Fact One:     The Bridge Foundation operates with over    2000 volunteer hours per year

Fact Two:     The Bridge Foundation operates on a budget of approximately $10,000 per  year

Fact Three:   This provides Bags for Release, prisoner support workers, rental assistance, transport home,       newsletters, advocacy

Fact Four:    The Bridge foundation helped over 40 prisoners in the last 3 years

Fact Five      It costs about $65000 a year to keep a person in prison

Fact Six:      The Bridge Foundation helps keep people out of prison

Fact Seven:  Supporting ex prisoners in the community saves money and makes the community safer, reducing crime and helping people ‘connect’ to their community

Fact Eight:   Every day people are locked up and every day people are released from prison

Fact Nine:    To stay out of prison a person needs housing, work and connections to people

Fact Ten:      You can make a difference

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Anyone can become a friend of the Bridge Foundation and support our work by donating $20 per annum.  For this they receive three newsletters a year and help in the valuable work we perform.

Please download latest Newsletter for application form.

Bridge Matters is the quarterly newsletter of the Foundation.  It includes information about prisons, and services, interesting articles, and poetry and drawings from prisoners.  

To contribute send submissions to: Bridge Matters,

PO Box 9279,

Sale, 3850.