page_title: Passport: Back To The Bars
section_title: The Project
hierarchical_section_title: Passport: Back To The Bars / The Project
caption_attribution_description: The Passport Back To The Bars team pick up 'Best Use of Events' award at the 2015 National Fundraising Awards.
context_page_description: Passport: Back To The Bars/Passport: To BRITs Week is a charity fundraising project featuring internationally famous music artists performing intimate shows in small venues in the UK.
  It was originally conceived and created by music executive Stephen Budd and featured 20 shows across 6 venues around the UK in a week in March 2004. These shows generated significant sums of money for two UK registered charities War Child and Shelter.
  The project was revived in 2015 and raised over £500,000 for War Child.
context_section_description: The first edition featured shows by; The Cure, Amy Winehouse,  Elbow, Pet Shop Boys, David Gray, The Darkness, Sugababes, Travis, Craig David, Katie Melua,  Blazin Squad, Ash, Starsailor, Atomic Kitten, Badly Drawn Boy, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, Lemar, Spiritualized and Divine Comedy during six nights of concerts held across the UK (Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and York) during March 1–6, 2004 at the small 200-500 capacity venues belonging to the Barfly chain, (a part of Channelfly, now MAMA Group PLC).
  
  The 2015 edition featured performances from Elbow, Duran Duran, You Me At Six, Bastille, The Vaccines and Ride. The week long series of events, in association with O2, London Evening Standard, XFM, NME and The Brit Awards raised over £500,000 for War Child and won the 'Best Use Of Events' awards at the National Fundraising Awards 2015.
  The 2016 series was announced on 20 January 2016, was renamed Passport To BRITs Week and featured Coldplay, Jack Garratt, Bring Me The Horizon, Bloc Party, Frank Turner, Professor Green, Jamie xx, Above & Beyond, Lianne La Havas and Florence And The Machine
caption: The Passport...team pick up 'Best Use of Events' award at the 2015 National Fundraising Awards
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