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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.

Enter Performing Arts

Please call 01740 655437 for more information and to book a place. 
Enter CIC will provide your child with motivational and inspirational surroundings. Enter CIC staff will offer a wide range of incentives to ensure that your child feels encouraged and supported.

What happens in the Enter Performing Arts sessions?
We provide a wide range of multi-disciplinary performing arts classes and workshops. We also offer private sessions for individuals. Our sessions use the creative arts to teach young people life skills.

Arrival/dismissal
When you arrive at a session for the first time you will be greeted by the receptionist. They will ask you to fill in a couple of forms for safeguarding purposes. Once these forms have been completed your child will be allocated a Buddy and then they will be asked to join the group. At the end of the session, Lower School students will be individually dismissed to parents/carers. Before leaving the session parents are invited to discuss how your child did during the sessions.

Unique
Enter students receive expert tuition in the arts. Enter CIC has a lot of professional contacts in the performing arts industry and these act as mentors, teaching and performing on the Enter programmes

Fun
Our sessions are designed to be fun, interactive and engaging. Enter students will feel at home, safe and will make new friends. We try to have a positive impact on the lives of everyone who attend our sessions.

The Enter Club Buddy System
The Buddy system was designed to help young people of all ages feel comfortable when they first attend our sessions. We know it can be daunting for a young person to walk into a room full of young people they may not know. Every new person is allocated a ‘buddy’ at their first session. It is the role of the ‘buddy’ to remain with the new member throughout the session. This is a particularly effective system and helps new members settle quickly whilst showing the ‘buddy’ that we trust them to have a level of responsibility and do a good job ensuring that the new member feels comfortable and confident.

Staff
Our highly qualified and experienced staff are experts in the industry, hold enhanced DBS certificates and are licensed Chaperones.

Can parents stay at the sessions?
We ask that parents/carers do not observe the sessions as we find that young people perform better when they are focusing solely on their tutor. However, we will make ourselves available by appointment if parents/carers have any concerns or queries.

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