Basic question about jQuery

I'm still new to jQuery and still learning. Ever since I started using it, I've been putting all my JavaScript code inside:

$(function() {
    function insideJQuery() {
        // This function calls stuff within this jQuery function, so it has to be here.
    }
}

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But now I'm facing a problem where I have an <a> element with href="javascript:insideJQuery()", and I'm getting the error message -- "Uncaught ReferenceError: insideJQuery() is not defined". This is expected because the function is inside another function, and therefore is out of scope.

But I can't really move the insideJQuery() function out of the JQuery's function because that function calls other functions within that scope that use a lot of jQuery; that's why it's there in the first place.

How can I access an inner nested function from the outside? The jQuery function isn't exactly a function I can call and have it return a reference to the inner nested function. What should I do?

Thanks.