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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 Special Visitor To Our New Venue

johnbaptist2On Saturday 20th April 2013, we were delighted to receive a special visitor to our venue for our Celebration of Age event entitled ‘Puttin on the Blitz’. We had over 120 residents (all over the age of 60), turn up for the event. One of the residents Mr John Oyston is very familiar with our venue as he was the church secretary for 40 years.

As many of you are aware the Enter Centre used to be the Ferryhill Baptist Church. Mr Oyston attended the church regularly from the age of 17 and became known locally as John The Baptist because of his strong faith and ties with the church for 60 years. At the age of 77 John’s health prevented him from continuing his work as secretary before the church formerly closed in July 2012. Everyone knew Enter CIC had been looking for a permanent base and in October 2012 we were delighted to be able to utilise the property for our community activities.

‘Puttin on the Blitz’ was a huge community activity and we knew that to ensure the project was all inclusive it would be important to provide free transport to and from the event for people with mobility issues. Tenlands, a local care home utilised the transport which enabled John to attend the event and to see first hand how Enter CIC were using the venue to benefit the local community.johnbaptist3

Upon arrival at the Enter Centre John was greeted by members of our Upper School and formerly welcomed by Andrea Flynn (pictured above and right)johnbaptist1

It was evident for all to see that John enjoyed the event. On the 24th April 2013, Mrs Oyston called in to our office and presented us with a thank you card. She expressed her delight that the young people in our community were benefiting from the venue. She explained that her greatest fear was that when the church closed the venue would be vandalised and left unused. She did not want this to happen as the church had played such a vital role in the community over the past 104 years.

We are delighted to receive this feedback from Mrs Oyston. Community is at the heart of our company and this clearly demonstrates that we are on the right path. Please see the feedback from Mrs Oyston below.

“Thank you for your generosity in providing wheel chair transport for my husband and myself and others from Tenlands Care Home to see the show (Puttin on the Blitz) on Saturday. Without the transport John and I could not have been there. John had a lovely day seeing the place (Old Baptist Church) and meeting lots of people he has not seen for a long time. We wish you all well for the future of your work.It was great to see the place full of young people. Yours thankfully”.

John & Lyn Oyston

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