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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.

Our new website will be going live soon, so look out for lots of new content and a new look and feel. To keep up to date with what we're doing, please visit our social media pages.

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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.

Beamish Workshop

We were delighted to have some special visitors at our session on Wednesday 20th March 2013. Gemma Reed, Community Events Officer and Helen Barker, Head of Community Participation from Beamish Museum conducted an educational workshop to help our students understand the dangers miners faced. The young people were very keen to explore and understand the lives of miners and children that would have been a similar age when they were working down the mines.

The workshop included:beamishworkshop3

A demonstration of how explosions in the mines would have occurred and what happened when they did. The young people were amazed by the experiments and couldn‘t believe how easy it was for an explosion to occur. The picture to the right shows how coal dust would ignite if there was an explosion in the mine.

beamishworkshop2The picture to the left shows Ian from Beamish Museum with items such as a potato masher, old fashioned water bottle, pit ponies slippers and masks that would have been used in the everyday lives of miners and families. The children had to guess what the items were for before Ian explained how they were used.

The children also had the chance to create their very own miners banner. After deciding on which colours should be used (as each colour holds a special meaning) the children got to work painting the Enter CIC Ferryhill Mining Banner (pictured right bottom).beamishworkshop1

At the end of the workshop we presented our guests with a few numbers from The Wind Road Boys. The Beamish staff were overwhelmed by the standard of performance and are very much looking forward to seeing our young people perform at the Gala Theatre in June.

We would like to thank Gemma, Helen, Ian and Beamish Museum for providing the informative workshop that is very close to our hearts in the lead up to The Wind Road Boys production.

At Enter CIC we feel it is very important for our young people to learn about their local heritage. With the educational opportunities we provide we hope the knowledge gained can connect the young people to the communities they live in. Take a look at some photographs from the workshop below.

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