Sam Fender has given the complete sum of his £25,000 honor cash to the trust for venues, which works to protect the Britain's small music venues.
Fender was awarded the prize on October 16 as his new release his work was named the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
The musician has decided to give the cash to the trust, in recognition of the vital role grassroots venues played in his initial steps.
"I couldn't be pursuing this success if it wasn't for all the performances I played around the area, and further afield, when I was just getting going," said the artist. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – about one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its efforts to support the industry, by adding a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help independent venues.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting more than £100,000 on his live tour to assist 38 small stages across the UK.
The money supported spaces that were facing imminent closure due to difficulties stemming from flooding, fires and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Other venues were granted funding support in upgrading facilities and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and concertgoers.
"The notion that money from concerts in major spaces backs the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to give his award prize money to good deeds.
In Pulp earned the trophy in 1996 for their record their work, frontman Cocker declared that the act would contribute their prize money to the charity the charity.
That year, artist she split her bounty among multiple charities, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they required better apparatus," the artist explained to a publication.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the community center that developed their act, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year M People donated their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was identified with the illness.
"The victory was ample," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't need the extra, because we had the cake. So our victory impacted somebody else's life."
Last week, the trust announced it had protected several grassroots venues in the South East, by placing them under local control.
The first in the city and the other in that location were bought under the public acquisition scheme, which is backed by a national body and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the buildings.
