Sam Fender has handed over the full amount of his £25k award prize money to the MVT, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's independent live music spots.
Fender was given the award on mid-October as his new release the album was chosen as the outstanding release of the previous year.
The musician has chosen to give the cash to the trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function small stages had in his initial steps.
"As an artist would not have achieved my current career if it weren't for all the shows I did around the region, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These venues are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
He also participated, collecting more than £100,000 on his live tour to help numerous grassroots venues across Britain.
The money helped locations that were dealing with possible closure due to difficulties caused by water damage, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and sound issues.
Other venues were granted monetary aid in improving facilities and gear that helped musicians and audiences.
"The concept that funds from performances in large arenas helps the smaller venues, where it all starts for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has commented.
He is not the first artist to donate his award prize money to good deeds.
Back when Pulp earned the prize in 1996 for their release their work, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would contribute their winnings to the organization War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer the artist shared her prize between a few good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they required new equipment," Ms Dynamite told outlets.
Previously, Ezra Collective contributed their prize money to the youth organization that supported their group, in addition to other independent music bodies.
And 1994 winners the group gave their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was diagnosed the disease.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," stated vocalist Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the honor. So our victory affected the lives of others."
In the past week, the trust shared it had saved a couple of local spots in south-east England, by placing them under public stewardship.
The first in that area and the second in Bristol were purchased under the community ownership scheme, which is backed by a national body and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.