From the
TEDxGrantham desk.
Updates from the organising team: speaker reveals, behind-the-scenes notes, and longer-form pieces on ideas worth spreading.
What Grantham's rooms remember
Grantham gathers its most significant stories not in museums but in ordinary working rooms: the flat where Margaret Thatcher grew up is now a therapy clinic; a library has been continuously open in a church porch since 1598; Isaac Newton carved his name into a schoolroom window.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Civic belonging starts with showing up
Showing up — checking in on neighbours, sharing produce, arranging things over a garden fence — builds connections that hold communities together, and for the person doing it, a sense of belonging to the place.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Does Grantham's engineering pipeline actually connect?
Grantham College invested £2.6 million in employer-designed engineering training, but no publicly available data shows whether graduates take local jobs; half of local engineering firms still report skills gaps.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Grantham College's free courses and who they actually serve
Vocational courses offered tuition-free to jobless or low-earning adults still charge registration, textbooks, and exam fees; participants nationally, however, tend to be more educated and closer to employment than those the policy targets.
By TEDx Grantham Team
What Grantham's famous names share
Three figures spanning three centuries—Isaac Newton, Margaret Thatcher, and Edith Smith, Britain's first warranted female police officer—each emerged from modest, outsider origins to breach institutional barriers, yet achieved distinction not in Grantham but elsewhere. The town produced ambition it could not contain.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Where South Kesteven's inclusive design meets real streets
South Kesteven's new Design Code mandates inclusive design on new streets—1,800mm pathways, Copenhagen crossings, benches every 200 metres—but cannot touch existing pavements, which a different council maintains with no such requirements.
By TEDx Grantham Team