Sam Fender has donated the full amount of his £25k honor cash to the trust for venues, which operates to protect the UK's small music venues.
Fender was awarded the prize on mid-October as his third album his work was named the top album of the past year.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function small stages had in his early career.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it weren't for all the gigs I performed around the North East, and further afield, when I was starting out," said Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these locations have ceased operations – approximately 16% of the entire UK sector.
Recently, top acts like Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by adding a modest fee to their ticket costs, which supports local stages.
Fender also joined in, raising in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to support numerous local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation supported spaces that were confronting imminent closure due to challenges stemming from flooding, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and sound issues.
Additional spaces received funding support in improving facilities and technical equipment that helped artists and fans.
"The notion that funds from performances in major spaces supports the independent spots, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has said.
He is not the first artist to donate his award prize money to worthy causes.
When they earned the prize in the year 1996 for their release the album, lead singer Jarvis Cocker declared that the act would contribute their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
During 2002, musician the artist split her award among a few organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I gave a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they required new equipment," Ms Dynamite shared with a publication.
In recent years, the band donated their winnings to the community center that developed their act, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year they donated their award to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was diagnosed the illness.
"Winning was sufficient," remarked vocalist the singer. "The money was the bonus but we could do without the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success touched somebody else's life."
In the past week, the MVT shared it had protected two local spots in the South East, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were acquired under the community ownership scheme, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the buildings.
