Urapunga is a remote Aboriginal community located 600 kilometres southwest of Darwin near the southern edge of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Home to 108 people, Urapunga is nestled between the two big river crossings – the Wilton and the Roper. 

Remote Opshop Project founder Tanya Egerton met sisters Margaret, Kathleen and Rhonda Duncan, Urapunga Elders and their family, in February 2016. Tanya worked with Margaret to facilitate a range of enterprise projects in Katherine and surrounding remote communities. 

This included a large-scale online campaign for the donation of pre-loved clothes resulting in 500+ boxes of donations delivered to the remote Aboriginal community of Jilkminggan, NT. Margaret was the face of the campaign and played a key role in establishing the Jilkminggan OpShop.

The sisters contacted Tanya in March 2018, with a request to establish a community-owned Opshop in Urapunga, to provide affordable clothing to families and to support the learning of business skills. Their dream is to encourage younger people to run their own businesses.

Remote OpShop Project worked with Rhonda and Margaret Duncan and other key community members, in the development of the opshop which opened on the 15th of June, 2018.

Remote Opshop Project will work with the community to fulfil their long-term aspiration of establishing local enterprises, the next step is to construct a permanent space that will be used as a community meeting place, a workshop and a retail outlet.

• All bed linen (sheets, pillow case, Doona covers)
• Towels
• Curtains
• Kids and babies clothes
• Women’s dresses
• Skirts
• T-shirts
• Men’s shorts, pants, shirts
• Fabric
• Lightweight closed in shoes (runners ideal- used for hunting and fishing on rocks-leather no good