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Friends of Donnelly Village

Locality: Donnelly River

Phone: +61 434 350 183

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24.01.2022 Hope you all stayed warm and dry this windy weekend! We were at Donnelly River and loved it as always! The Village is open for guests and for day visitors to check out the heritage signs and the animals and have a cuppa and cake. If you are coming from Bridgetown, Mockerdillup Road is closed at the 18km point for a week or two more as they are doing bridge works. Lots of rain on the weekend but not water in the river yet, sadly!

23.01.2022 We are updating our website gradually... check out the video about Donnelly Family Stories on http://www.friendsofdonnelly.org.au/

23.01.2022 Friends of Donnelly Village Inc reps, Cindy Spight, Tony and Sally Paulin were very happy to celebrate our entry being Highly Commended in the Permanent Exhibition or Gallery Fitout under $20,000 at the AMaGA WA After Party for the Australian Museums and Galleries Association MAGNA Awards last night. Thanks MAGNA for recognising a huge amount of volunteer work in setting up the FODV Museum! Kudos to our volunteer curators, Cindy and Mike Spight. We forgot to take a photo! Th...anks to Sam Beard, Julie Lunn from Collections WA and the AMaGA WA organisation for their support. #FriendsofDonnellyVillage #DonnellyRiverVillage #volunteers #DonnellyMill #Bunnings We can highly recommend putting in entries for recognition of your group's work, it allows you to reflect on all the work your group has achieved and how well the displays/projects succeed in representing your host community. If you are thinking of putting together a nomination and would like some feedback/support get in touch with us and the #CollectionsWA folks.

22.01.2022 Check out our video tour of the FODV museum at Donnelly River Village? Lots to read and photos to browse through. Have you been yet?

22.01.2022 Thanks AmaGA for this news! Kudos to all the other regional museums who made the shortlist including the Power Up Electricity Museum in Manjimup. The MAGNAs shortlist has been announced! Congratulations to the WA Maritime Museum for their work on 'Immigration Stories', the Art Gallery of Western Australia... for 'Conversations with Rain', the City of Mandurah for the Mandurah Community Museum Courtroom Gallery, the Shire of Manjimup for the 'Power Up Electricity Museum', the Shire of West Arthur for the Betty Brown Historical Centre, the Friends of Donnelly Village for the Friends Of Donnelly Village Inc Museum, and Creative Spaces who worked on three of these projects, all shortlisted for the Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNAs). Make sure to book your tickets for the MAGNAs After Party via the link: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/.../cultivate-relaunch... For the full shortlist, head to https://www.amaga.org.au/news/magna-shortlist-announced See more

19.01.2022 Spending some relaxing time at Donnelly and huge thanks to Carol Armstrong (nee Nichols) for doing her video oral history interview at No 6 yesterday. Anyone else want to have a go? Let us know!

18.01.2022 Thanks Collections WA for highlighting these memories of Jack which we put on the Collections WA website earlier this year. What a great smile from a big Donnelly River character!

15.01.2022 This is very exciting news! Thanks AmAGAWA for letting us know!

14.01.2022 One step closer to getting something done about saving the Donnelly Mill! Look forward to hearing about the next steps from the Government. Thanks Greg Meachem and Forest Communities for sharing

13.01.2022 Donnelly River Village from above on a slightly smoky day! Thanks Leah Howells for sharing.

13.01.2022 FODV were part of a trial by the WA Museum to set up a Collections WA site which would give online access to historical collections held across the state. We have only uploaded a few things so far as this was just a trial. The site was officially launched a couple of weeks ago and we wanted to share one very special item in our collection - the video vignette featuring John Tillman Snr, Grace O'Neil, Pat Reeve, Tim Larsen. see it here Part 1 Family. https://collectionswa.net.au/search

04.01.2022 We will be at Donnelly with video camera and tape recorder on hand from 25 July till 1 August. Get in touch if you would like to set up a time for us to come and interview you and capture your oral history story about life at the Donnelly. Call Sally on 0434350183. If you live closer to Perth, call us too so we can set up a date/time over the next couple of months.

01.01.2022 We are very proud to advise that FODV won a Commendation for their contribution as a community organisation in the 2020 WA Heritage Awards. This was a welcome recognition of all our work over the past few years and also the large amount of photos, stories and ephemera that our members and the Donnelly Community have shared with us over that time - Thank You! https://www.dplh.wa.gov.au//contribution-by-a-community-ba