Sam Fender has donated the complete sum of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the MVT, which functions to protect the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the award on October 16 as his latest record the album was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
Fender has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in recognition of the crucial part local spots played in his initial steps.
"I personally wouldn't be doing this success if it hadn't been for all the gigs I did around the North East, and beyond, when I was starting out," said Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these locations have permanently closed – roughly one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
Recently, well-known musicians such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which benefits smaller concert halls.
He also took part, raising in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist 38 local spots across Britain.
These funds assisted venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues caused by floods, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces were granted funding support in upgrading facilities and technical equipment that directly benefitted artists and fans.
"The concept that revenue from shows in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," Fender has stated.
Fender is among several artists to contribute his award winnings to charitable organizations.
In the band won the trophy in the year 1996 for their record the album, frontman the singer stated that the group would contribute their winnings to the charity War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer she split her award across several good causes, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I gave a £1,000 to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked new equipment," Ms Dynamite shared with the media.
In recent years, the band donated their prize money to the local youth club that developed their act, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year they donated their prize to a charity for MS after a close contact was diagnosed the disease.
"The victory was quite enough," said singer Heather Small. "The prize was the cherry on top but we could do without the cherry, because we had the honor. So our victory impacted another person's life."
Last week, the MVT revealed it had saved two grassroots venues in the South East, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and the other in that location were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is backed by Arts Council England and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
