The Eco Centre is Groundwork South Tyneside’s headquarters. Groundwork’s mission is to build sustainable communities through joint environmental action. They have installed a new turbine on their roof.

This 'new' turbine was actually previously sited in Cumbria where it was generating power that went into the national grid. The old turbine on Groundwork’s roof has been sold onto South Tyneside Council.

Lionel Hehir from the Eco Centre says

'We are blessed with good wind and a south facing roof. Our existing wind turbine produced enough electricity for our needs at the Eco Centre but we felt that we could have a larger turbine that would produce electricity not just for us but which would produce an excess that we could sell onto green energy uk. That seemed to make good financial sense as well as environmental sense'