Auntie Viv and Sharon Mason from the Djaadjawan dancers teach the girls weaving and shellwork We've just returned from 8 days on the road facilitating a World Vision Young Mob road trip for students from Shelvey and Penrith and what a time that was despite the rain and wind that hammered our camp site each night. We were lucky enough to connect the girls up with artist Merryn Apma at her art gallery and the Djaadjawan dancers for women's business including weaving and shellwo

Our CEO, Peter Cooley was proud to be part of the Randwick City Business and Economic Leadership Forum ‘Indigenous Economic Development’ panel to promote indigenous entrepreneurship and the work that Indigenous business people have done in building businesses, creating wealth and employing others. Peter spoke of the economic development opportunities facililtated by the hub at the Blak Markets and the barriers that had to be overcome to make the Blak markets -a success. This

The Blak markets is a social enterprise that has been successful in overcoming some of the barriers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people entering small business. It also helps funds our charities work, which is running cultural reconnection programs for aboriginal youth to reduce some of the highest rates of youth suicide and incarceration in the world. We want to expand the opportunities for Indigenous people to benefit from the sale of their goods by building a ret