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Enter CIC is an approved academic, exam centre, a training provider, a creative hub, as well as being a cultural and heritage production centre.

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Academic Exams

We are a leading approved training provider and academic exam centre, supporting hundreds of home educated, distance learning and adult learners across the North and beyond. We facilitate CAIE, AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC examinations for private candidates. For more information visit our Private Exams North East link below.

Private Exams North East website

Theatre

We are an award-winning theatre company with our own working professional theatre. We specialise in high quality professional, community and youth-focussed theatre. We are internationally renowned for our commitment to new writing and artist development programmes. We tour internationally and have some of our productions available for commercial licensing.

Heritage

Heritage is what you take from the past and give to the future. For the past 10 years we have been passionate about creating projects that connect people with their national, local and cultural heritage. Use the links below to see more. 

Settle North When Yesterday Was Young Over the Wire Fallen Echoes

Community

Enter CIC has become know as a positive enabler across Durham and the North East. We specialise in programmes that raise aspiration, combat social isolation, improve mental and physical wellbeing as well as developing volunteering and employment skills. We have won awards for our work with elderly communities.

A Very Special Day

Some days are very special and quite simply yesterday was one of those!

As part of our research for the work we are currently conducting in Hartlepool, I visited and spent an afternoon with three very special WW2 veterans (all of whom are in their 90’s).

The first veteran I visited was called Mr T Lewis. He will be 100 years of age on the 24th October 2018 (our first performance day for Honoured). As a young soldier Terry found himself on the beaches of Dunkirk! Many of us have watched films about Dunkirk, but to sit and listen to the memories and tales of a veteran who lived through it was quite simply awe inspiring and I will never forget it!

The second veteran I visited was called Mr C Humphrey’s and he was appointed the rank of the Chevalier in the Ordre national de la Legion d’Honneur for his involvement in the liberation of France during the Second World War. The stories of bravery he told were breath taking and his service to his country was astounding.

My final visit was to see a lovely lady called Mrs M Nossiter who at the age of just 17 took on two important roles (in addition to her main job), fire watching and joining the red cross as a voluntary aid detachment (VAD) which in turn led to her service in the RAF.

Whilst visiting these lovely people I was struck by their gentle, kind and unassuming natures. Despite their astounding acts of courage and bravery they see themselves as people who did their duty when the country called on them.

Whilst listening to them, I was truly moved and my belief that it is vitally important that our veterans’ stories are shared and heard was renewed. I am very much looking forward to telling the young people at Enter CIC (and in the schools) about my discussions with these courageous and inspiring veterans.

I would like to extend a huge thank you to Mr Stacey (Chairman of the RAF Association) for assisting me yesterday and finally to Mr T Lewis, Mr C Humphries and Mrs M Nossiter for sharing your memories and experiences with me. I am quite simply in awe of your courage, commitment, and bravery. I will always remember!

Thank you, Andrea

 

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