Sam Fender has donated the entirety of his £25,000 award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which works to save the Britain's grassroots music venues.
The star was given the award on 16 October as his latest record People Watching was named the top album of the previous year.
Fender has decided to donate the funds to the trust, in appreciation of the essential function small stages played in his early career.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These venues are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – about 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Recently, major artists including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by adding a modest fee to their ticket prices, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Fender also took part, generating in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds supported locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to issues caused by water damage, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations obtained funding support in upgrading amenities and technical equipment that directly benefitted performers and audiences.
"The idea that money from concerts in large arenas helps the local stages, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has commented.
He is far from the only musician to give his honor funds to good deeds.
In the band received the trophy in 1996 for their release Different Class, lead singer the singer declared that the act would donate their winnings to the charity War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer the artist divided her bounty between multiple charities, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also donated a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to the media.
Previously, the band contributed their prize money to the local youth club that developed their band, in addition to other local music groups.
Also 1994 winners they contributed their award to a charity for MS after a friend was identified with the disease.
"Winning was ample," stated artist Heather Small. "The money was the bonus but we could do without the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success touched the lives of others."
In the past week, the trust announced it had rescued several local spots in the South East, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is funded by a national body and music fans who acquire "shares" in the properties.
