Mount Helena Ratepayers Association promotes and supports community projects to maintain and enhance the rural amenity and lifestyle of the ward.

We are a friendly group with fairly relaxed meetings.  

What sort of thing do we do?
In conjunction with the Shire of Mundaring, we’ve successfully:

• upgraded the local Pioneer Park;
• had murals put on local bus stop shelters;
• improved footpaths and pedestrian access ways (tracks & trails);
• regularly make submissions to council and state in relation to current issues.

We’ve also helped the schools get the orange warning caps put on the school zone signs.

Is there something YOU would like us to do?

Membership
$7 per year single
$10 per year couple

History of Mount Helena

"Mount Helena" is probably the fourth name of the location since European settlement. The first name that appears on record is "Marionvale" which was given as the residential address of Abraham White (who set up the first sawmill) in his death notice in the West Australian in 1885.

The area then became known as "Whites Mill" until his sawmill closed. The next sawmill venture was known as Lion Mill. However in the 1920's the name changed again following a vote by residents. "Mount Helena" was suggested by a local school girl and it stuck.

Abraham White is our original pioneer and his body rests somewhere in the East Perth Pioneers Cemetery.