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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.

Enter Wins Outstanding Performance Award at the Curve Theatre, Leicester

On the 3rd June 2018, Enter CIC participated in the Junior Theatre Celebration which took place at the Curve Theatre, Leicester.

We had a very early start as our young people arrived at The Enter Centre at 5.00am in the morning! We then embarked on a 3 hour bus journey to Leicester! We arrived at the Curve Theatre, Leicester at 9.00am and everyone had a superb day. All of our young people smiled and laughed from morning till night.

The event saw some of the biggest names from the West End and Broadway assemble to provide young people with an inspiring day. Eighteen groups from all over the British Isles assembled at the venue to showcase, learn and make new friends.

Prior to the event participating groups had to prepare a ten-minute extract to perform in front of a panel of adjudicators.  The panel list was impressive and included:

Stiles and Drewe – Broadway and West End Composers (writing credits including Mary Poppins, Cameron Mackintosh’s new version of Half a Sixpence, Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan and Honk). Debbie Isitt – Writer and Director of the blockbuster Christmas films: Nativity (starring Martin Freeman), Danger in the Manager (starring David Tennant), Dude Where’s My Donkey (starring Martin Clunes and Catherine Tate).
Andrew Wright – Double Oliver Award nominee and double WhatsonStage Award winner.
Timothy Allen McDonald  – CEO iTheatrics (New York)

Enter CIC prepared an extract from our recent production ‘Mary Poppins JR’ and we received fabulous feedback and went on to win awards for Outstanding Performance and Outstanding Female Performer. Lets just say we were delighted to have represented Durham and the North East of England at this event and to have been recognised and awarded two accolades was quite simply wonderful!

Our young people work extremely hard and are well known for the work they do both on stage across County Durham and in their local community. It was wonderful to see their talents rewarded and recognised by industry professionals.

Events like this are vitally important for ensuring that young people have opportunities to celebrate and showcase high-quality musical theatre experiences. This is now more important than ever with cuts threatening performing arts provision in schools. As many of you are aware Enter CIC work hard to ensure that young people of all abilities, ages and our local community have access to high-quality creative experiences.

We all had a wonderful day and it will be remembered by many for a long time. For a glimpse of the day, please take a look at the photographs and video clip below:

 

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