The Cootamundra Heritage Centre, which displays a priceless collection of items from the town's past, has put out a call for people to help staff the centre for either one morning or afternoon a month.
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The Centre says the benefits of volunteering are enormous - not just in helping to preserve and promote the history of the town and district, but for volunteers themselves.
Studies, it says, have shown volunteering can be mentally stimulating, helping to reduce stress, combat depression, find friends, connect with the community, learn new skills, and even advance a career.
The Centre, formed by a group of passionate volunteers in 2001, is located right next to the railway station in the former 1927-built Cootamundra railway barracks and rest house.
Back in the age of steam, the barracks contained a long hallway with 14 bedrooms, seven to the left and seven to the right, where railway staff could get some sleep, breaking their journeys half way between Sydney and Melbourne.
The layout has proved ideal for today's museum collection, with each of the rooms dedicated to a theme such as the history of the aboriginal girls training home, wartime history, the railways, home and hearth, horse and harness, and aviation.
If you enjoy meeting interesting new people, the centre has a host of visitors daily.
To discuss volunteering at The Heritage Centre and Visitor Information Centre, interested people should phone Betti Punnett on 6942 1158.