Crims on the loose after securing bail – Whitelion Bail Out 2017

Crims on the loose after securing bail – Whitelion Bail Out 2017
Jun 27, 2017

Whitelion’s 2017 ‘Bail Out’ event was a raging success! The annual event saw a total of 453 ‘inmates’ nation-wide locked up and raised over $464,000 in bail.

This year we had a number of big ‘gangs on the inside’; Grant Thornton had a team of 27 inmates!

We’d like to recognise our top fundraisers nationally of both teams and individuals:

  • WA: gang DC – Dungeons and Dragons raised $7,000 and Kelly Martin from Asahi Beverages raised $1,615
  • NSW: Adland Gang – UnTld raised $30,694 and Megan Brownlow from PwC raised $4,700
  • TAS: Vantage Villians from the Vantage Group raised $12,224 and Andrew Doyle from Telstra raised $1,835
  • SA: Northern Connector Project gang from Lend Lease raised $5,963 and Simon Hockridge of Adelaide Venue Management Corporation raised $2,100
  • VIC: The Crackers (Plumbing Industry) raised $48,130 and Peter King from Rothwell Lawyers raised $3,311

Brent ‘Boomer’ Harvey from the North Melbourne Football club and Collingwood Cheer Squad leader Joffa Corfe were famous faces among the inmates. We also saw a number of well-known teams and individuals getting involved this year from the Sydney Swans, Melbourne Boomers, Hockeyroos, Asahi Beverages, Google, Facebook, The Guardian, PWC, The Good Guys, MasterCard and Lend Lease.

On the inside inmates were stripped of all possessions, given an inmate uniform, fingerprinted, photographed and fed prison gruel, before being sentenced to cell time with their gang or other solitary inmates.

They set a bail goal to secure their freedom, and boy did they achieve them.

We’d like to sincerely congratulate and thank the Australians that dug deep and helped achieve a magnificent result, and for allowing Whitelion to continue our life changing work in supporting at-risk young Australians.