Brisbane Water Oyster Festival Proudly Presented by Deepwater Plaza Woy Woy
SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2024
10AM – 4PM
LIONS PARK, WOY WOY
The Brisbane Water Oyster Festival is back.
Join us on Sunday 10th November at Lions Park, Woy Woy for a wonderful day of tasting food, wine & craft beer.
Plus, the famous Sydney Rock Oysters
Go to the website or Facebook for further event information!
Hon Davis Harris Minister for the Central Coast meets Peninsula Chamber
The Peninsula Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a business breakfast at Margarita Daze Restaurant at Ocean Beach to welcome the Minister for the Central Coast David Harris and State Member for Gosford Liesl Tesch amid concerns over housing availability and slow Council approvals.
“It was refreshing to hear from the Minister for the Central Coast that he fully understood the difficult state of housing availability and affordability on the Central Coast”, said Peninsula Chamber President Matthew Wales.
“David Harris, being a local boy, recognised that the Peninsula has a huge potential to provide medium density housing especially around our retail centres and rail stations where services already exist”.
“He also saw the need for greenfield development in the Warnervale/Wadalba precincts but acknowledged that urban expansion comes at cost where new infrastructure needs to be provided”, said Matthew Wales.
“However, the Coast is facing a housing availability crisis as new housing stock remains low, building costs are escalating, trades remain hard to engage and Central Coast Council continues to take way too much time approving new developments”.
“Whilst acknowledging that the Central Coast Council had meet it key performance targets whilst under administration, the Minister clearly remains concerned that the Council needs to improve its service delivery particularly in ensuring that residential land is released for new housing and development application assessment times are sped up”.
“The Minister clearly understands these housing issues and committed to delivering better outcomes whilst recognising that the NSW State Government is under pressure to reign in the State budget”, said Matthew Wales.
“The Minister knows that he has to deliver on the State Government promises but in his position as Minister for the Central Coast, he is ideally situated to secure more funding and better outcomes for the region”.
“Woy Woy town centre renewal, roads and the dredging of the Ettalong Beach Channel remain high priorities for the Peninsula Chamber and these issues were highlighted to the Minister”, said Matthew Wales.
“The Chamber will be lobbying the Minister’s office to ensure that projects such as the Ocean Beach Road/Rawson Road intersection upgrade and Ocean Beach Road/Dunban Road upgrade are delivered as promised as these are critical to alleviating traffic congestion on the Peninsula”.
Brisbane Water Oyster Festival Returns
After a three year absence due to COVID-19, the Brisbane Water Oyster Festival is finally coming back!
The Peninsula Chamber of Commerce has today confirmed that the Oyster Festival will be returning to Woy Woy on Sunday 12th November to be held at Lions Park on the beautiful Brisbane Water.
“We are really excited to be able to bring the Brisbane Water Oyster Festival back to the community”, said Peninsula Chamber of Commerce President Matthew Wales.
“Due to Covid-19 and lockdowns, the Chamber did not want to take any risks holding the event last year because of the high number of visitors to the area”.
“However, with life returning to normal, the Peninsula Chamber of Commerce is back organising this iconic festival”, said Matthew Wales.
“This year’s the festival is returning to Woy Woy at the Lions Park Reserve with the backing of Central Coast Council. The beautiful park on the waterfront is a magnificent setting for a food and wine festival and tasting the famous Sydney Rocks grown locally right here on the Brisbane Water”.
“We are heading into our 23rd year of holding the oyster festival and every year it has grown larger and more successful thanks to our Chamber members and the great expertise of our festival managers.”
“This year we are fortunate to have Liz Hart of Hart Event Management on board as our event organiser with her extensive event management experience across the Central Coast”, said Matthew Wales.
“Liz is well into the planning for this year’s event with food, wine/beer and craft stalls being snapped up quickly”.
“Jenifer Green from G’day Hollywood Productions has already booked the whole day with live on-stage entertainment including with country music band ‘Pure Nashville’ headed up with Shane Edwards and Sally Fanwarr singing the timeless classics of Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson”, said Matthew Wales.
“During the afternoon will be the band ‘Pub Crawl’ paying tribute to the 70’s and 80’s with songs from Midnight Oil, Divinyls and INXS and much more”.
“We’ve always promised to present fabulous high class performers to entertain for the full day. Our formula has proven to be highly successful with record crowds every year” said Jenifer Green from G’Day Hollywood.
“ This year, the Brisbane Water Oyster Festival is proudly sponsored by Peninsula Plaza Woy Woy who have been a big part of the Woy Woy retail centre for over thirty years”, said Matthew Wales.
“Sponsorship packages are available to promote your local business leading up to and during the festival”.
“The Oyster Festival promotes the Woy Woy Peninsula, our beautiful waterways and presents an opportunity to promote our local oysters and local produce,” said Matthew Wales.
“We have visitors from all over NSW and interstate who because of the Brisbane Water Oyster Festival, come to enjoy the Woy Woy Peninsula and support our local businesses. And that’s what it’s all about, promoting our beautiful area to the rest of the world”, said Matthew Wales.
Matthew Wales
Contact: 0415 634 232
Visit www.oysterfestival.com.au
Contact Hart Event Management for all information or to book a stall.
Hart Event Management
ABN 78 289 522 795
PO Box 3460 Erina NSW 2250
info@hartevents.com.au
Liz: 0410 215 270
Gordon Reid Chamber Breakfast
Brisbane Water Oyster Festival
Access and Inclusion Business Information Forums
Central Coast Council has developed a resource kit “Making Access and Inclusion Your Business’, which outlines simple strategies to assist business become more inclusive to reach a community of under-served people. This resource kit will be launched at the Access and Inclusion Business Information Forums to be held in February 2020, and is designed to assist business be as accessible and inclusive as possible.
To register for one of these forums please call 0408 807 758 or email Gregory.Combes@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au
2019 Events
PENINSULA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NETWORK DINNER
BOATHOUSE RESTAURANT
BRISBANE WATER DRIVE AT KOOLEWONG
WEDNESDAY 7th AUGUST 2019 7:00PM
TWO COURSE DINNER (LICENSED/OPEN BAR) $40.00
PRESENTATION BY
JULIE VAUGHAN DIRECTOR – CONNECTED COMMUNITIES CENTRAL COAST COUNCIL
and
SHARI YOUNG ENTERPRISE AND ACTIVATION OFFICER CENTRAL COAST COUNCIL
Central Coast Council is now implementing the Town Centres Development Support Program in consultation with the Peninsula Chamber of Commerce and other Central Coast Chambers with the view to providing business support and place activation in partnership with the Council.
This is an important opportunity for property owners and business owners to attend this evening presentation to be aware of tourism and business opportunities for our three town centres.
This is a Chamber project in partnership with Central Coast Council. Please take the opportunity to attend and network with local business operators.
Payment cash or cheque Peninsula Chamber of Commerce
Or transfer to
Commonwealth Bank BSB 062 612 Acct. 1019 7812
CBWN February Gosford Luncheon 2020 - 5th February
Event Details
Guest speaker this month is Marney McQueen. Marney is one of Australia's most versatile performers, starring on stage, film and television. Marney will share her inspiring journey juggling a successful career, family and new life here on the Central Coast.
Community and Business Women’s Network – CBWN – unites women in business and community on the Central Coast.
We believe that connecting gives opportunities for growth, resilience and inspiration at business, community and individual levels.
CBWN is open to all women who wish to connect, support, grow, learn, network, inspire, share or encourage local spending!
If you are keen to connect with other Central Coast women in a relaxed and friendly setting, book a seat at our next monthly event or join the CBWN Facebook group today!
Membership is available at a cost of $50 p.a. – includes event discounts and personalised name badge.
Community & Business Women’s Network is a project of Iris Foundation.
THE BRISBANE WATER OYSTER FESTIVAL
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10 2019
9.30AM TO 4PM
ETTALONG, NSW
The Brisbane Water Oyster Festival is back, celebrating 20 years since it first started in 1999.
Join us on Sunday 10th November at the same site as last year in and around The Galleria (also known as The Ettalong Markets) at Schnapper Road in Ettalong, for what will be a superb day out for the whole family!
More details to follow shortly, please stay tuned and go to Facebook for further event information!
2019 STATE AWARDS
The 2019 NSW Business Chamber State Business Awards will be held on Friday 22 November at the International Convention Centre in Sydney.
The awards celebrate business excellence in NSW by recognising and rewarding outstanding businesses whose passion, determination, innovation and success inspire other businesses and business people.
Please click here to view the 2019 NSW Business Chamber Regional Business Awards Key Entry dates.
Do you know a business that is achieving excellence in their industry?
Nominate them now!
