Sam Fender has given the full amount of his £25k honor cash to the MVT, which works to preserve the United Kingdom's small music venues.
Fender was presented with the award on October 16 as his third album his work was named the best record of the previous year.
He has chosen to give the cash to the trust, in appreciation of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his early career.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the region, and beyond, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These spaces are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these venues have permanently closed – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a small levy to their ticket prices, which supports smaller concert halls.
He also joined in, generating over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to assist 38 grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds assisted spaces that were facing imminent closure due to challenges caused by floods, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces obtained monetary aid in modernizing facilities and gear that helped musicians and fans.
"The notion that money from shows in large arenas backs the local stages, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has said.
The musician is far from the only musician to give his honor winnings to worthy causes.
In the band received the prize in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, frontman the singer announced that the group would give their prize money to the charity the charity.
During 2002, musician Ms Dynamite divided her bounty between a few good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told outlets.
Previously, the band contributed their prize money to the youth organization that nurtured their act, in addition to other local music groups.
Also winners that year M People donated their winnings to a charity for MS after a friend was identified with the illness.
"The victory was ample," said singer the singer. "The money was the bonus but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success touched the lives of others."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust announced it had rescued a couple of local spots in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in Southampton and the other in that location were bought under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is funded by the arts council and enthusiasts who purchase "stakes" in the properties.
