The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky are taking part in Project Diamond, which will gather data about the background of those working on all UK programmes.
A number of staff who take part in the volunteering week go on to take part in projects that run throughout the year.
We also took part in projects, jointly funded by the university and by the Higher Education Academy, where we worked collaboratively with staff researching different aspects of course learning.
She is no longer a partner but will continue to take part in projects set up when Plan B was based at Warner Brothers.
Running the Birmingham-based "youth engagement agency" is an enormous task: last year around 3,000 people aged 16 to 25 took part in projects initiated by them.
But the project depended on the mobilisation of vast numbers of local people, many of whom had previously taken part in projects such as the 2012 York Mysteries and the city-wide first world war walkabout Blood and Chocolate.
At crowd-sourcing collaboration platform Wreckamovie you can take part in projects ranging from short films and animations to full feature-length films.
What has changed is a growing sense that participants can actively take part in projects, rather than passively allowing their idle computer to do the grunt work.
He has taken part in projects to promote international charities related to such subjects as animal rights, seal hunting, land mines, vegetarianism, poverty, and music education.
The annual day galvanizes volunteers to take part in projects such as book drives, community cleanups and revitalization efforts, started by corporations, communities and nonprofits.
