From January 2019, the site became a ‘Living Classroom’, a project funded through Coastal Revival Fund. Guided by their lecturers, apprentice joiners, plumbers and electricians from Sunderland College are doing a basic fit out of the building to bring meanwhile use to the building.
You can read a bit more here https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/regeneration-forgotten-city-centre-buildings-given-cash-boost-189444