Folkestone, another once glorious seaside town that fell on hard times as visitors abandoned it, is having significant success with its programme of cultural regeneration, although, unlike Margate, it worked hard at a grassroots level before it started indulging its edifice complex (and Quarterhouse is relatively modest in size, sitting snugly on a town street).
While that accident substantially added strength to the antinuclear movement, particularly at the grassroots level, where it became a global symbol for antinuclear activism, it also helped spread technical knowledge about nuclear power.
I wanted those who create the system to accept that if that system isn't changing lives at the grassroots level then it isn't working.
As China discovered, bribery starts at junior grassroots level and it reaches to the very top.
But we share the aim of further opening up the sport of boxing to women, at both an Olympic and grassroots level, so that it is no longer regarded with fear, disgust or disapproval by the many who believe (and, in my experience, exclaim without any notion that it might offend) that we women are too pretty to punch.
In netball, there are so many fantastic ways for women and girls to get involved in the sport at the grassroots level, but when it comes to our elite sides, we need to continue pushing to make our women become professional athletes.
The listeners' village model is run on people power: people at the grassroots level gather content, share it and make sure that it has maximum reach and impact.
However, the Lawn Tennis Association saw £10.3m of its £17.4m funding from Sport England - provider of funds at grassroots level - frozen until it can improve on its plan to boost participation.
At a grassroots level, the BBC said it was launching a national training programme in schools to help young people to "identify real news and filter out fake or false information".
Talent needs to be identified and nurtured from a young age, and there need to be mechanisms in place to find aptitude at a grassroots level and make sure that it is developed.
