Department rule prevents dogs at festival

No dogs is an Education Department rule.

The 2016 Woytopia sustainable living festival, organised by the Peninsula Environment Group, took place on October 9, in the grounds of Woy Woy South Public School.

The festival was a great success with an estimated 3000 people attending and lots of positive feedback.

During the day an issue arose concerning bringing dogs into the festival.

It is a Department of Education regulation that dogs are not allowed on school premises, and therefore this was one of the conditions of us using the school premises.

For this reason, we were obliged to advise people coming to the festival that they could not bring dogs onto the grounds.

Unfortunately, we were not aware of this policy until the festival had already begun, when it was drawn to our attention, so we had not mentioned it in our promotion of the event.

This was an oversight on our part, and we apologise for any inconvenience caused to anyone who travelled to the festival with their dog.

Email, Oct 19, 2016

Mark Mann, Woy Woy