Welcome to Gentoo

We are a housing association that provides homes for more than 60,000 people.

Review of office locations

We've been reviewing our office locations to make sure they are easy to access, comfortable and welcoming spaces for our customers to visit us.

We have invested £250k into our future workforce as we welcome 25 new apprentices

10 September 2025

We have welcomed 25 apprentices to the organisation, after a successful open day with over 500 candidates attending the event at our head office in May.

In one of Sunderland’s biggest apprentice intakes in 2025, we prioritised applications from our customers and young people leaving......

Latest news

1 October 2025

From playground to produce: Barmston Village Primary School wins gardening competition

Barmston Village Primary School ...

1 October 2025

We’re introducing Voicescape – a smarter way to support you

This week we launched a new system called Voicescape to help manage rent payments and tenancy sup...

24 September 2025

We have joined the Fellowship of Education to close educational divide

The Laidlaw Foundation launches the Fellowship of Education with Barclays, Nissan and Gentoo as f...