From the
TEDxGrantham desk.
Updates from the organising team: speaker reveals, behind-the-scenes notes, and longer-form pieces on ideas worth spreading.
What Apple Tree Restaurant shows about learning in public
Apple Tree Restaurant at Grantham College opens to the public for lunch twice a week, with hospitality students cooking and serving under supervision in a working restaurant. The arrangement turns an ordinary meal into supervised work experience and makes vocational learning visible to local diners.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Who can read Grantham’s buses and public toilets
Grantham has town buses, Callconnect demand-responsive services, a refurbished public toilet block on Conduit Lane and a Changing Places facility on Hill Avenue, but their value depends on whether people can find, read and trust the information at street level.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Farming with data near Grantham
Lincolnshire’s agri-tech cluster now centres on robots, AI and data systems, with the wider LINCAM economy put at about 88,000 jobs and £3.8bn GVA; near Grantham, that is starting to reshape the skills needed for farm and technician roles.
By TEDx Grantham Team
How Grantham’s quiet engineers keep things moving
Between Harlaxton Road, Alma Park Industrial Estate and Turnpike Close, Grantham firms make and repair the hidden parts that keep industrial kit moving: vibrator motors, slip rings, fabricated assemblies and control systems. Founded across 1946 to 2004, they turn maintenance, automation and machining into a local engineering base.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Can Gravity Fields make Grantham year-round public science
Grantham already has the Newton-linked sites needed for year-round public science, from Woolsthorpe Manor and The King’s School to Newton’s Trail. Gravity Fields proved local demand, but financial pressure ended the old festival model, leaving only a standing partnership to turn scattered assets into regular learning events.
By TEDx Grantham Team
How AI is changing work and judgment in Lincolnshire
United Lincolnshire Hospitals uses AI software to support clinical decision-making on chest X-rays for patients over 16, while Lincolnshire farms are using AI to spot crop stress and disease earlier. The result is less outright automation than a shift in work towards data, checks and human judgement.
By TEDx Grantham Team