PASS Engagement
The PASS Late Year Benefiz concert series has been held annually since 2003. Proceeds benefit charitable children's and youth projects in the Rhine-Main area as well as in developing countries.
The proceeds from the Late Year Benefiz 2024 will be used to support the construction of a school in Sierra Leone, Africa.
The PASS Late Year Benefiz was born out of a company Christmas party in 2001, where the idea was to make the event more beautiful, more interesting and more sustainable. From then on, it became a public benefit concert. After beginnings in the city hall Aschaffenburg, one moved further into the Capitol Offenbach and finally, starting from 2005 into the old opera Frankfurt.
Artists of previous Late Year Benefits were Candy Dulfer, Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), Inga Rumpf, Dieter Hildebrand & Roger Willemsen, Anke Engelke, Klaus Doldinger & Passport, Helen Schneider, Curtis Stigers, Ute Lemper, Max Mutzke, Culcha Candela, Tom Gaebel, Milow, Joy Denalane, Stefanie Heinzmann and many more.
In the past years, the proceeds benefited the following projects:
- Currently in planning: Construction of the 2nd school in Malawi with the Fly & Help Foundation
- Construction of the 1st school in Malawi, in Mzungu, near the capital Lilongwe (Tadala ABC Primary School)
with the Fly & Help Foundation (inauguration: 2023) - Construction of a school in Namibia (Oroutumba) with the Fly & Help Foundation (inauguration: 2022)
- Construction of a school in Madagascar with the Fly & Help Foundation (inauguration: 2021)
- The Ark Frankfurt
- Help for children with cancer Frankfurt e. V.
- Children's home Aschaffenburg and
- numerous youth departments of sports clubs in Frankfurt and Aschaffenburg
- and many more.
Even today, the PASS staff meets after the concert for an after-show party with a raffle. The proceeds from this will also go to the charity.
PASS is also involved in the Bavarian Lower Main region. At our headquarters in Aschaffenburg, we support the Deutschlandstipendium (Germany Scholarship) scholarship and regularly sponsor particularly talented students at Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences (TH AB). PASS is a member of a support group of 39 regional companies, private individuals and foundations. In recent years, our Germany Scholarship holders have attended the “Software Design” course, which has been newly accredited in Aschaffenburg for several semesters.
PASS in Lower Franconia is also committed to providing educational opportunities for the youngest of the young: In 2024, the Rotary Club of Aschaffenburg's “Youth & Technology” project celebrated its 14th anniversary. As a long-standing sponsor of this special teaching concept – at numerous primary and elementary schools in and around Aschaffenburg – we give children and young people the opportunity to gain scientific and technical experience at an early age in special study groups. The Strietwald School in Aschaffenburg, not far from the PASS headquarters, is currently benefiting from this.
Our partnerships with sports clubs on the basis of sponsorship pursue purely promotional purposes. They are an ideal vehicle for achieving a visible, high-reach presence regionally, nationally, and internationally. We therefore see sponsorship less as part of our social commitment. Nevertheless, every decision we make to sponsor is also based on a fundamental affinity with our partners. This can be summed up very well by our fascination with team sports.
Teams sponsored by us can be found in men's soccer (regional league), men's handball (2nd Bundesliga) and women's soccer (upper district league).
