Sam Fender has donated the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the trust for venues, which operates to protect the UK's small concert spaces.
The star was presented with the prize on October 16 as his third album People Watching was declared the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
He has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the vital role small stages fulfilled in his initial steps.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I played around the region, and beyond, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these locations have shut down – roughly 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts like the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by adding a small levy to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds supported locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties arising from water damage, blazes and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and noise complaints.
Additional spaces obtained funding support in improving amenities and technical equipment that positively impacted performers and concertgoers.
"The idea that revenue from shows in big venues helps the independent spots, where it begins for performers like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
Fender is not the first artist to donate his award funds to worthy causes.
In Pulp won the trophy in the year 1996 for their album the album, lead singer Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would give their cash to the organization the charity.
In 2002, artist she split her bounty between a few charities, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I contributed a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they needed new equipment," Ms Dynamite explained to the media.
In recent years, they gave their prize money to the youth organization that supported their act, in addition to other local music groups.
Additionally winners that year the group gave their prize to a MS organization after a acquaintance was diagnosed the illness.
"The victory was ample," said artist the singer. "The money was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the main prize. So our success touched another person's life."
In the past week, the MVT announced it had rescued several local spots in the South East, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in that area and the other in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who purchase "shares" in the properties.
