We love our community

We love our community so we jump at the chance to support or get involved in community-related work. If you want to read about us, our values and experience you can do that here. If you want to know how much we love our community then read on…

We’re keen on volunteering but also proactively try to bring businesses together and celebrate and boost our local community and economy – here’s an example of how we do that.

Thame.net community website

Thame.net has been serving the community of Thame since 1998 by publishing news, events and other types of local content. The website and social media channels came under the new management and editorial guidance of the owner of hamsterlips, Laura Fellows in early 2021 who invested heavily in the brand and website infrastructure.

The site now includes a wider range of content including magazine-style content.

The aim of the site is to still publish news from the local community but also to connect people, businesses and the community by encouraging creation of other types of content – for example, did you know that straw and reed shortages continue to impact the traditional craft of thatching? And we have a lot of thatched properties in the local area!

Laura coaches local businesses in marketing and how to create evergreen digital content that helps them stand out and grow their business, then publishes the content on Thame.net to share with the local community. Laura also creates a lot of original content that’s either interesting or useful, such as Dog Friendly Places in Thame.

Content categories include business, community, creative, environment, food and drink, health and wellbeing, home and garden, news and shopping. There is also a jobs board, business directory and information pages such as things to do in Thame and the history of Thame.

Promotion of volunteer opportunities

In mid-2021, Thame.net entered into a collaboration with Thame Town Council and 21st Century Thame to promote volunteer opportunities in the local community. This helps take the ‘where to volunteer page’ to a whole new level by hosting monthly events where local people can meet charities and community groups to find out about volunteer opportunities.

You can view volunteer opportunities here and find out about the monthly events here.

We’d love to see you at one of the events or, even better, when we volunteer locally!

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