Annual General Meeting + discussion: "Is churchgoing increasing?" (online)

This year we're holding our AGM as a separate online meeting, on Tue 10 June at 8pm.
As usual, we'll aim to get through the fomalities quickly - our record is 10 mins - but it's important that everyone has the opportunity to ask questions and express their views. (We rarely need to vote on anything, but if we do, and as we don't have membership subscriptions, "voting members" are defined in our constitution as anyone who's both on our mailing list and a paid-up member of Humanists UK.) The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82097538417?pwd=WmhPZ1dDTzlKNkNXN2I4dmRoUFpjQT09

We'll then have time for a discussion on reports of an increase in young churchgoers. These have been prompted by a Bible Society report, "The Quiet Revival", based on a big study carried out by YouGov, claiming that "Gen Z leads an exciting turnaround in church attendance". That indeed is what the data show. But it's not all that it seems. In particular, it implies significant increases in attendance between 2018 and 2024 in both the Church of England and, especially, the Catholic Church. But the churches' own data show declines. It's a puzzle. Wearing his "Humanists UK Dialogue Officer" hat, Jeremy has written this post about it on the Humanists UK website. And there's some interesting new data form France. Something is going on. But what?