From the
TEDxGrantham desk.
Updates from the organising team: speaker reveals, behind-the-scenes notes, and longer-form pieces on ideas worth spreading.
Engineering Grantham: the town’s habit of solving problems in the real world
Grantham’s engineering history, from Richard Hornsby & Sons to its wider civic systems, shows how practical thinking can turn ideas into workable solutions for transport, skills, enterprise and everyday public life.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Edith Smith and the everyday work of changing an institution
Edith Smith’s work in Grantham shows how institutional change becomes real through everyday authority, not titles alone, as Britain’s first female police officer with full arrest powers helped make women’s role in policing credible through practice.
By TEDx Grantham Team
TEDxGrantham, Edith Smith, and Grantham’s Case for Ideas Worth Spreading
The article explains why TEDxGrantham can draw strong ideas from a town rather than a capital, using Edith Smith’s policing in Grantham and local agri-food innovation as examples of how community history and practical change can shape wider thinking.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Grantham, Agriculture, and the Future of Resilience
The article explains how agriculture, especially soil management, is tied to resilience in Grantham. It shows how healthier soils can help farms cope with drought, flooding and climate stress, and why local land use, food systems and community planning all matter to future resilience.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Regeneration that changes how a town centre is used
The article explains how small changes in Grantham’s Market Place and St Peter’s Hill, such as seating, power access and better paths, can make the town centre easier to use for markets, events and everyday visits, and how heritage places like St Wulfram’s fit into that wider change.
By TEDx Grantham Team