Sam Fender has donated the full amount of his £25,000 honor winnings to the trust for venues, which works to save the UK's independent live music spots.
Fender was awarded the award on October 16 as his latest record the album was named the outstanding release of the past year.
The musician has decided to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the essential function local spots played in his beginning days.
"I would not have achieved this success if it wasn't for all the shows I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was just getting going," said Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – about one-sixth of the total UK scene.
In the last year, top acts such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by adding a modest fee to their admission fees, which benefits local stages.
Fender also participated, generating in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across the UK.
The money helped venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to challenges caused by floods, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces received funding support in improving infrastructure and technical equipment that directly benefitted musicians and audiences.
"The concept that revenue from performances in major spaces helps the local stages, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," the star has said.
He is among several artists to give his award funds to good deeds.
In they won the award in the mid-90s for their album Different Class, vocalist Jarvis Cocker stated that the group would contribute their prize money to the non-profit the charity.
During 2002, musician she shared her prize among a few charities, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I contributed a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked new equipment," Ms Dynamite shared with a publication.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective gave their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their group, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
And the 1994 recipients M People contributed their award to a charity for MS after a friend was identified with the illness.
"The victory was quite enough," said artist Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our victory touched another person's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in south-east England, by placing them under community ownership.
The Joiners in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were bought under the community ownership scheme, which is backed by Arts Council England and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the buildings.
