Funding

Principal Funding Sources

Bedford Row would like to acknowledge three major sources of support:

The Irish Prison Service, through the offices of Regimes Directorate, provide core funding i.e. (salaries of some staff and day-to-day running costs). This is an acknowledgment by the Irish Prison Service that working with families has a direct beneficial effect on prisoners in custody.
The Mercy Sisters (in conjunction with the Franciscan Friars), were instrumental in starting up the Project and providing seed funding. The Sisters still fund some salary costs, staff training costs, charitable donations, grants for educational projects, and other initiatives that support the focus group.
The Franciscan Friars donated the centre in Bedford Row to the Project on their departure from Limerick in June 2008. This generous gift means that the Project can look to, plan for the future with confidence. The Friars also give Bedford Row gifts from time to time for which we are most grateful.

Other Funding

We are grateful to all who provide funding to continue our work. The logos of our funding sources are listed and more can be learned about them from clicking on each one. Some of these sources have given funding for particular events, reports, programmes, etc. and some provide small amounts of ongoing funding.

Our day-to-day work is highly dependent on receiving donations from sources other than those listed.

In particular we are always keen to continue, and indeed expand, our parenting skills/lifeskills courses and counselling/ psychotherapy services, simply because we receive feedback that such services have made, and are continuing to make, a real and tangible difference to:

Parents and grandparents who are struggling with the difficulties of having a family member in prison,
and
Children who are at very high risk of early school leaving, involvement in anti- social behaviour at a young age, and resultant involvement in crime in teenage years.

(See also Chapter 3 of our Research Report)

The only reason that we do not do far more of this very beneficial direct intervention work is that we are hampered by lack of funding.

Donations

If you feel there is any way that you can support the work of Bedford Row Family Project, in any way, whether financially or otherwise, please feel free to contact us by sending us an e-mail from our home page or donate on our home page!

All donations small and large are most welcome and will be acknowledged immediately. Precisely what your donation is used to fund can be made available to you also…….

Thank you,