Feature as a venue on the food trail

Taste of Thame aims to celebrate the amazing food and drink businesses on our doorstep in Thame at the same time as encouraging visitors to explore venues in the town centre and learn more about what they have to offer. This year the event will run for 1 day on 25^th May 2024, 10am – 4pm.

Please note that this is NOT going to replace the previous Thame Food Festival – it will be a very different event. Instead of closing the town centre and having lots of pop-up stalls, we will be encouraging participants to explore the venues already in the town – you. On visiting these venues, they will both discover what you have to offer AND where relevant meet producers who are being showcased within venues on this day only. Alongside this there will be competitions, a ‘Buttermarket Banquet’ (outdoor seating in the Buttermarket that people can use to join together and eat, with a ‘menu’ of town-wide food options and live music), a street food market around the Town Hall, and a Raffle raising money for Thame Food bank.

Although the theme of the event is Food & Drink, you DO NOT need to be a Food or Drink business to take part. Any businesses can take part – as long as you meet the criteria outlined below

Food Venues

There are different ways you can be involved. These include:

Host a producer in your venue providing them with space to hold a pop-up stall that allows them to sell their produce, and possibly provide free tasters or carry out demonstrations
Showcases a local producer within your own menu (this could be someone you already work with, or someone new to you – allowing you to trial something on a one-off basis to see how it is received)
Run a demonstration
Run a workshop
Provide a ‘Menu Item’ to feature on our ‘Buttermarket Banquet’ menu
Another idea you have that we haven’t thought of.

What’s in it for you?

The event will:

introduce you to new customers who may not have visited your business before
the opportunity to partner with a local food producer and be introduced to new opportunities without having to go looking for them
feature your venue on the event’s trail map to raise the profile of your brand and allow people to find you
feature your venue on this website, signposting people to your own online shop/presence
provide social media exposure through the Taste of Thame official Social Media channels.
allow you to trial new menu’s/produce/offers
give you the opportunity to promote your own loyalty schemes
increase connection to other town centre businesses and help in the development of ‘one voice’ for Thame, so that the whole town’s profile is improved in the surrounding area and further afield, encouraging more visitors to the town to the benefit of all businesses

Non- Food Venues

In order to be involved as a non-food venue, the only requirement we have is that you have a space that a producer could use as a pop-up stall. These producers do not need access to a kitchen or cooking facilities. Rather they will be providing small tasters or demonstrations of how their products can be used, or what services they offer.

What’s in it for you?

Your involvement will give you:

an introduction to potential new customers. This is a great way to draw people into your businesses who may not otherwise have come in to see you.
the opportunity to promote your business. You are welcome to ensure that there is a display of your products/information about your business for people attending the event to discover. This will help to boost the profile of your business and could encourage people to return to you at a later date. Many residents in Thame are unaware of what is on their doorstep, and this event aims to help increase their knowledge about more than just the food & drink on offer.
a feature venue on the event’s trail map to raise the profile of your brand and allow people to find you
a feature venue on this website, signposting people to your own online shop/presence

Application process If you have a town centre business and can get involved as outlined above, then you are guaranteed to be a part of the event. To determine exactly how you want to be involved the process will be as follows.

Submit you application online (link will be posted below once ready) no later than 28th February 2023 – Ensure that you have read and fully agree with our Terms & Conditions of participation found below. If you have an questions please let us know by emailing us at tasteofthame@gmail.com and someone will get back to you asap.
Once the detail of your involvement in the event is confirmed we will create a dedicated webpage on the events site to promote this, and follow this up with our social media campaign through April and May.
Printed publicity will be available in May, including an event map that will allow participants to explore the town and find all those involved. There will also be on-street publicity including feather flags to assist with this exploration.

For returning venues ONLY please complete the form at this link

For new applicants please complete the form below

Contact Details

Your name*

Business name*

Your address for invoicing*

Your email*

Your Tel No*

Your Website details

Your Facebook details

Your Instagram details

Email address to publish on our website

Tell us about your business

Please give us a short description of your business to use on our website.

This event aims to celebrate local produce so please give us information about what you source locally and what importance it has to your business.

Involvement in Taste of Thame

Please tell us how you would like to be involved. This could be featuring your own products/ menus in some way; featuring a local Producers e.g.as part of a special menu; Running tasters, competitions, workshops; Demonstrations etc.

Please list any LOCAL producers that you would like to collaborate with. NOTE: they will need to complete an application for independently and pay the producers fee.

If you want to feature a producer but do not have any connections, please detail what opportunity/space you have (e.g. want to feature them in your menu, have space to host a stall etc)

Raffle: Thame Food Bank

All applicants are being asked to provide something to be included in a hamper that will be raffled to make money for Sharing Life Trust who run Thame Food Bank. What would you be able to include, and who should we contact to arrange this?

Promotion of the event

Could you help to promote the event and how?

Photos needed

Please upload at least 3 images for us to use on our Website, Social Media platforms and in press releases to promote Taste of Thame. These must be labelled with your name/name of your business. They should not include any advertising material such as a banner or logo. By uploading these images you are giving us permission to use them in this way. If possible please include:

Inside and outside shot
image of staff in the venue
food served (if that's relevant)

Please upload your logo

Permissions and Ts&Cs

Do you give us permissions to add your name to our Mailing list to share information in the run up to the event?*

Yes
No

Do you give us permissions to share your name and contact details with other Taste of Thame participants so they can coordinate the exhibition space available directly with you?*

Yes
No

I confirm that I have read your Terms & Conditions and am happy to abide by these (Found below the form).*

Yes

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