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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.

The Enter Centre

Introduction
The Enter Centre is a working theatre, as well as a rehearsal space and creative hub in the heart of south County Durham. It has been a central resource for communities for over 100 years…and it’s still going strong.

The Centre is made up of:

  • Reception Hall
    • We can provide receptionists for your corporate event, or front of house staff for your theatre production.
  • 100 seat main hall with stage
    • The theatre is technically self-contained. Please contact us and ask for your technical pack for details.
    • We can provide technical staff for your event or production.
  • Drama Space 1
  • Drama Space 2
  • Music Room
  • Male and female toilets
    • (including an Accessible Toilet)
  • Kitchen

More about The Enter Centre

The Enter Centre is a production venue hosting professional theatre as part of the Take Off Festival of Children’s Theatre and is a receiving venue for professional theatre in its own right. For a copy of our venue technical pack for theatre companies, please contact us on 01740 655437.

The venue is also a perfect place to hold rehearsals, meetings, coffee mornings, art exhibitions, heritage projects, wine tasting, conferences, awards ceremonies, corporate away-days, birthday parties, reunions and family gatherings. There is also a large, outdoor area with grass and benched tables.

Whatever you want to do in our venue, you will find it an inspirational place to work, play and meet, so contact us on 01740 655437 to discuss your hiring needs.

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