Heritage volunteering

Volunteers are needed to assist at the Museum for a few hours a week, on a rotational basis. All training is provided.

Learn about local history and share your knowledge with visitors in the beautiful surrounds of Wilkinson Homestead.

Information about the Attendant, or Tour Guide positions:

• Volunteer Museum Tour Guide position description
• Volunteer Museum Attendant position description

Further information:
Contact the Heritage Officer on 9397 3144.

Engage the kids of today with activities of the past at Wilkinson Homestead.

We’re looking for natural teachers to run activities with primary school aged children on Wednesdays during school terms.

All training is provided. A Working With Children card is required.

For more information call the Heritage Programs Supervisor on 9397 3145 or email heritage_queries@gosnells.wa.gov.au.

Learn about the fascinating history of the Gosnells area and the State Heritage listed Wilkinson Homestead Museum. Share this information with Museum visitors on tours of the Museum site and assist staff with Museum tasks. You will be part of a friendly, supportive and enthusiastic team.

Volunteers are responsible for welcoming visitors to the Museum, taking entry fees and recording visitor numbers, taking tours, answering questions and helping staff with some Museum work, such as cleaning objects and preparing materials for the education program. Training is provided.

Volunteers are rostered to work from 10am-1pm on one Sunday per month, from February to November. Occasionally volunteers are asked to swap or fill dates when more people are needed.

Information about the Attendant, or Tour Guide positions:

• Volunteer Museum Tour Guide position description
• Volunteer Museum Attendant position description

Further information, or to register your interest:

Telephone: The Heritage Officer on 9397 3144
Email: heritage_queries@gosnells.wa.gov.au, noting that you are interested in the Museum Attendant volunteer position.

Oral History: Interviewers

Are you a good listener? This position is responsible for conducting audio interviews which are made available to the public in the City’s Oral History Collection.

All training is provided.

For more information: please read the Position Description, or call the Collections Supervisor on 9397 3145.

The City encourages members of the community to volunteer their time to local history and heritage related works, even if it’s only a couple of hours per week. It’s a great way to find out more about your local area, meet new people, and be involved with your local community. Heritage Services currently has the following positions available (see links below). You can find other volunteer positions with the City, or check out the Volunteering WA website for other alternatives.

Oral History: Transcribers

This position is responsible for converting the audio recordings of oral history interviews into typed documents which are made available to the public in the City’s Oral History Collection. Typing or basic computer skills will be useful, but all training is provided.

For more information: please read the Position Description, or call the Collections Supervisor on 9397 3145.

The image on this page is of the Packer and Sons Hersey van, date unknown.

Founded in 2008, the Thornlie Living History Group is a small group of volunteers who are passionate about researching and recording the history of the Thornlie suburb and its people.

Through its network of contacts with local people the group has collected thousands of pages of information, including the stories of people who moved to the first houses built in the area in the 1950s, photographs, house plans and designs, even the original brochures. This material is now available in Thornlie Library and in the Community History Collection at the Gosnells Library.

The group has also conducted numerous oral history interviews of people involved with the early years of the suburb's development. The transcripts and matching audio recordings can be found in the City's Community History Collection and Thornlie Library.

For more information on the collection and what it contains, click here.

If you have information on the history of Thornlie that you would like to share, please contact the Community History Officer on 9391 6010 or email heritage_queries@gosnells.wa.gov.au.

To get you started, a life history memory prompt is available.

The image on this page is of the Thornlie swimming pool in 1988.