Sam Fender has donated the full amount of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the trust for venues, which works to protect the UK's independent music venues.
The star was given the award on 16 October as his new release People Watching was declared the top album of the last 12 months.
The musician has chosen to give the cash to the trust, in appreciation of the essential function grassroots venues fulfilled in his initial steps.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it hadn't been for all the gigs I performed around the region, and beyond, when I was beginning," remarked Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these locations have ceased operations – roughly 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by adding a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
Sam Fender also participated, raising over £100k on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across the UK.
The money assisted spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to challenges caused by floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Some locations received financial assistance in modernizing facilities and technical equipment that helped musicians and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from concerts in big venues supports the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to contribute his honor funds to charitable organizations.
When the band won the trophy in the year 1996 for their record the album, lead singer Cocker declared that the act would donate their prize money to the charity the charity.
That year, artist the artist shared her bounty between several organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they needed updated gear," Ms Dynamite shared with the media.
In recent years, the band donated their winnings to the local youth club that developed their group, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Also the 1994 recipients M People donated their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," said vocalist Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the honor. So our victory impacted somebody else's life."
Last week, the trust shared it had rescued two grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
The first in that area and the other in that location were purchased under the community ownership scheme, which is funded by a national body and enthusiasts who acquire "shares" in the venues.
