Little Black Duck

The desire to combine helping the Aboriginal community and need to express her creativity is what drove Wiradjuri woman Ashleigh Pengelly to set up Little Black Ducks.

Ashleigh explains “I have always been creative and loved to find roles in my career that would allow me to fulfil my passion for community work as well as my creative side which is really where my business began! Originally, I was actually helping other Aboriginal creatives get their products retail-ready through a program I was curating, and then had an idea myself and it took off from there!”

Another reward for Ashleigh is what having her own business has meant financially to herself and her family. “I am my own boss, I am in control of my time and that sense of freedom is very rewarding. Having my own business has given me the means to build my first home (and studio!) and I am incredibly grateful for everyone that has and continues to support my business to allow me to do so. Being the first in my family to have a business and being able to be a role model for that and showing my son this new and different way of life is the biggest reward. Anything is possible!”