INSIDE TIME

Inside Time - the first national monthly newspaper for prisoners - was launched by New Bridge in December 1990. BBC Breakfast Time television showed the first issue being delivered to the cells at HMP Grendon in Buckinghamshire. For more than a decade Inside Time has been a voice for prisoners in British prisons, committed to providing information and comments that seeks to be informative, interesting and entertaining.

In January 2004, Inside Time became a separate subsidiary of New Bridge - in the form of a not for profit company limited by guarantee. It is run as a business but its profits are donated to the New Bridge Foundation. A Board of Directors was also appointed, with extensive and relevant experience of journalism, business and the Prison Service. The newspaper continues to thrive, with the introduction of more colour and a hugely popular 'Jailbreak' page with puzzles and prize competitions.

It has expanded from eight pages per issue to fourty-four, from four issues a year to twelve, and from 12,000 black and white copies per issue to 46,000 full colour copies. As Inside Time has grown in influence, it has expanded its prison readership to an estimated 50,000 per issue. It is distributed to every prison and special hospital in Britain.

Advertising revenue increased significantly during 2008 sufficient to enable the basic number of pages of each issue to be increased from 36 to 44.

Special supplements have included insidepoetry and insideeducation. 

In November 2009 'Inside Information - the Comprehensive Guidebook to Prisons & Prison Related Services', was launched at en event held in the Old Court Room in London's historic Lincolns' Inn.  Free copies of the new guidebook were donated to libraries and chaplaincies in all UK prisons.

Over 7,000  items of mail from prisoners and other organisations had to be handled by the administration office during 2009 and this is a similar figure to the number of daily 'hits' on the website www.insidetime.org

'Can I thank all at Inside Time for such a really fantastic paper - even better now that it's monthly with more colour. Each issue is of massive value to prisoners and our families as it gives us a face and a voice. I find that when all seems lost, nowhere to go and applications failed,  you can turn to Inside Time and it never fails to give you that vital lift every prisoner needs, with something for everyone.

So from all the thousands of prisoners you've helped in the past, and will continue to do so in the future, please keep up the good work'.