From the
TEDxGrantham desk.
Updates from the organising team: speaker reveals, behind-the-scenes notes, and longer-form pieces on ideas worth spreading.
Who gets left out when care goes online
Lincolnshire routes adult social care through an online-only directory despite higher digital exclusion among older residents; many who are offline cite distrust or access barriers, not skills, as the reason.
By TEDx Grantham Team
When fast trains meet hostile streets
Grantham's 63-minute London express service is undercut by a hostile ten-minute walk: poor wayfinding, car-dominated junctions, and blank frontages push arriving passengers toward taxis, undermining the modal shift fast-rail infrastructure depends on.
By TEDx Grantham Team
What Grantham's street signs assume about you
Small-town pedestrian signage is formally restricted to English settlements under 10,000 people; Grantham, at 44,580 residents, must commission its own—leaving first-time arrivals without directional signs until 2025.
By TEDx Grantham Team
The broadband divide South Kesteven's villages live with
A quarter-mile in South Kesteven separates reliable video calls from a frozen progress bar — a hyper-local postcode lottery within the same council tax band that has persisted for fifteen years.
By TEDx Grantham Team
The RAF Regiment's founding lesson from Belton Park
RAF airfields in 1941 were defended with pitchforks and pikes fashioned from gas piping; the German assault on Crete revealed that airfields are won by soldiers over the wire, not bombs, and Churchill's response created a 66,000-person corps in eight months.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Who shapes Grantham's new settlement before residents arrive
Buckminster Estate and its planning consultants are fixing every major system of Spitalgate Heath — roads, all-electric power, drainage, schools — before the 3,700 residents who will inhabit this Grantham settlement arrive.
By TEDx Grantham Team