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 innovation centre above a cinema built
When the University of Lincoln withdrew in April 2022, Grantham's innovation centre lost its mechanism for delivering degree-level learning and became administrative offices. The reversal showed that educational infrastructure requires institutional depth and multi-partner resilience, not merely a building and one partnership.
By TEDx Grantham Team
How Grantham's industrial past is powering its green future
Gas fitters' expertise in reading diagrams, calculating flow rates, and tracing faults through sealed systems transfers directly to heat pump installation; Grantham's Energy Centre applies this principle to reskill workers already in trades, addressing a region where working-age population will fall every year through 2030.
By TEDx Grantham Team
What the Guildhall actually does for Grantham
The Guildhall functions as infrastructure rather than a theatre: an NHS social prescribing partner, subsidised access hub, and rehearsal space hosting over 12,000 annual community engagements, far exceeding the 210-seat capacity for ticketed shows.
By TEDx Grantham Team
When a letter is a clinical intervention
43% of working-age English adults lack the literacy for routine health information; 7.6% of outpatient appointments end in no-shows, costing the NHS over £1 billion annually—a gap that better-designed letters have already narrowed in other trusts.
By TEDx Grantham Team
What AI forecasting means for Lincolnshire's vegetable growers
Lincolnshire produces a third of England's vegetables from fenland facing a 16-fold increase in flood risk; AI forecasting tools for water and soil exist, but adoption by growers—particularly smaller farms—remains undocumented.
By TEDx Grantham Team
Grantham's Autocraft and the two-era engineering bet
Carmakers exiting engine manufacturing outsource production to Autocraft Solutions, whose 24,000 annual engines from its Grantham factory finance the company's battery remanufacturing on the same site.
By TEDx Grantham Team