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TEA Time News December 2025

1 - The evolution of Audience Development

In June, our CEO wrote about how the case for regenerative audience development has never been stronger - it's our most popular article of 2025.

2 - School Trips

Also in the summer, our popular TEA Break on School Trips generated lots of discussion on changing patterns of school engagement with arts, culture and heritage - look out for more on this in 2026.

3 - Data we can Trust

AI has been an important theme for us all this year - our Chief Technology Officer Stephen Miller wrote about how we need data we can trust in the age of AI.

4 - Change by artform

Also making the top five is this TEA Break on new audience trend data, which we released in September.

5 - The audience legacy of COVID

Another of our most popular articles was Oliver Mantell's piece for Arts Professional looking at the audience legacy of COVID.