Sam Fender has handed over the full amount of his £25k award cash to the MVT, which operates to save the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
Fender was presented with the prize on 16 October as his new release his work was named the top album of the last 12 months.
The musician has opted to give the cash to the MVT, in appreciation of the crucial part small stages played in his early career.
"I personally wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I played around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," said Sam Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these spaces have shut down – roughly one-sixth of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, major artists like the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, generating over £100k on his live tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across the UK.
These funds helped locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to issues arising from floods, blazes and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted financial assistance in upgrading amenities and technical equipment that helped artists and audiences.
"The concept that money from concerts in major spaces supports the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
The musician is among several artists to contribute his honor winnings to good deeds.
When the band won the trophy in the year 1996 for their album the album, vocalist Jarvis Cocker declared that the group would donate their winnings to the charity War Child.
That year, musician she shared her bounty among several charities, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to the center, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they required better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told outlets.
In recent years, the band donated their winnings to the community center that nurtured their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year they contributed their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was diagnosed the condition.
"Winning was ample," stated singer Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't require the extra, because we had the main prize. So our winning touched somebody else's life."
Last week, the MVT announced it had protected a couple of grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into community ownership.
The Joiners in the city and The Croft in Bristol were purchased under the community ownership program, which is funded by a national body and enthusiasts who acquire "shares" in the venues.
