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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.

When Yesterday Was Young

Over the summer period 2017, Enter CIC embarked on a large scale initiative to connect young people with their local heritage. This was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

As part of the initiative, our young people built relationships with national and regional museums, including Beamish Museum, The National Coal Mining Museum for England, The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers and Durham Mining Museum in Spennymoor and Ferryhill Heritage Centre.

Our young people, working with Enter CIC professional activity mentors, created a spellbinding theatrical experience entitled, When Yesterday Was Young, with performances free to the community.

The training and activities were free to all local young people and the resulting performance received high critical acclaim.

This project is ongoing until the end of October, but Enter CIC has built a website at www.whenyesterdasywasyoung.org which will remain in place for at least three years. Our accompanying Facebook page for When Yesterday Was Young can be reached at www.facebook.com/whenyesterdaywasyoung .

The National Coal Mining Museum for England said:

On 27th  August 2017 the Museum was thrilled to host a performance from EnterCIC. They captivated our visitors with their moving songs and powerful stories about coal mining in Durham.  The young people involved were absolutely fantastic; so talented, confident and professional. What struck me the most was how engaged the young people are with the stories they share. It is obvious that they have connected personally and emotionally to their coal mining history. This project completely challenges the idea that young people are not interested in heritage and is a great example of how the arts can empower young people. Jayne Young, Education Officer, The National Coal Mining Museum of England

Te performance celebrated the works of Sid Chaplin and Norman Cornish and we were delighted that Michael Chaplin, son of Sid Chaplin attended the event. In addition, members of the Cornish family attended, too. They loved the performance and the reworking of the material.

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