Joy Beryl Noble

Mavis Reynolds OAM (left) and Joy Noble AM (right), co-founders Volunteering SA & NT 35th anniversary at Government House 2017. Photo by Volunteeting SA & NT.

JOY BERYL NOBLE (1925-2020)

By David Mitchell AM

President, Trees For Life 2000-2018

With the death of Joy Noble I reconnected with Joy many years we have lost one of our later as a volunteer and member of greatest volunteering government committees. Her focus advocates and champions. was still the same and her passion

Founding Volunteering SA in 1982, for volunteering inspirational. She

Joy developed many of the principles became a member of Trees For Life in and practices of volunteering 1991, and remained a great moral and employed today. Quiet, but with a financial supporter of the organisation fierce determination, Joy was a true until her death. Her advice and wise pioneering champion. In 2002, her counsel over many years was greatly services to the volunteer movement valued and in 2009, I was privileged to were justly rewarded with an AM. be awarded the Joy Noble Medal for

I first met Joy in the early 1970's volunteering.  when she was appointed regional director in the newly created Department for Community Welfare, becoming one of the most senior RIP Joy Noble women in the state public service.

No big deal for her however, since, rather than personal achievement,

Joy was more about improving quality of life for those in need and for the general community.