Sam Fender has handed over the full amount of his £25,000 honor cash to the MVT, which works to save the UK's grassroots live music spots.
The star was presented with the prize on mid-October as his new release the album was named the best record of the last 12 months.
The musician has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the crucial part grassroots venues fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these locations have shut down – about 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, top acts including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to support the industry, by adding a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which goes to help independent venues.
He also took part, collecting more than £100,000 on his live tour to help 38 local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money assisted locations that were confronting possible closure due to issues caused by water damage, blazes and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces were granted monetary aid in upgrading amenities and gear that directly benefitted artists and audiences.
"The notion that revenue from concerts in large arenas supports the independent spots, where it all starts for artists like me, is just logical," Fender has stated.
The musician is among several artists to contribute his honor prize money to worthy causes.
In Pulp earned the award in the year 1996 for their album Different Class, frontman Cocker stated that the band would donate their cash to the charity War Child.
During 2002, artist the artist split her award between a few good causes, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I donated a grand to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they required better apparatus," Ms Dynamite shared with the media.
In recent years, the band gave their winnings to the local youth club that nurtured their group, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also the 1994 recipients they gave their winnings to a charity for MS after a friend was identified with the illness.
"The victory was quite enough," said vocalist the singer. "The prize was the bonus but we could do without the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning affected the lives of others."
Recently, the trust announced it had saved a couple of local spots in the South East, by bringing them into community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and The Croft in that location were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is funded by a national body and supporters who buy "shares" in the properties.
