Housing Association Gentoo invited its residents to enjoy a festive family fun day.
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00:00Are you looking forward to Christmas and getting some toys?
00:02Would you like a little treat from Santa?
00:05Just a little some chocolates?
00:07Yeah?
00:08Yeah?
00:09Just those?
00:12There you go my darling.
00:13You take those and be a good boy.
00:15Do you want any photographs?
00:31Okay Louise, obviously you've got your family fun day here today.
00:33So what are some of the things the kids and the families can do then?
00:36We've put on this family fun day today for all of our customers to basically get involved and celebrate Christmas.
00:42This is a space painting, there's lots of sport activities.
00:45We're really appreciative of the Beacon of Light for putting this on for us as well.
00:49We're working with Culture Start as well as Barclays Bank are here to support as well.
00:54So there's loads of activities for the kids.
00:56There's free lunch and also Santa's Grotto.
01:00So all of the kids are getting something to take away with them today from our own Gentoo Santa.
01:06I know you also did one in the summer, so what's the rationale behind these days then?
01:10This is the second family fun day that we've had this year.
01:13We had one in the summer which was a huge success.
01:16We had more people, about 1,200, who were due to turn up today.
01:20The idea is that Gentoo has 60,000 customers in Sunderland.
01:24So we are a big part of the Sunderland community and we just really want to support our customers as much as we possibly can.
01:31So doing something like this is really important to us and we're going to continue to do this.
01:35If this is what our customers want us to do, we'll continue to do this in 2025.
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