Sam Fender has donated the entirety of his £25k Mercury Prize cash to the MVT, which functions to preserve the UK's grassroots live music spots.
The star was given the cheque on mid-October as his third album the album was declared the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
He has decided to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role local spots fulfilled in his initial steps.
"As an artist would not have achieved my current career if it weren't for all the gigs I performed around the region, and beyond, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these locations have ceased operations – about 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their ticket costs, which benefits local stages.
Sam Fender also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to assist 38 grassroots venues across Britain.
The money supported locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues received monetary aid in improving infrastructure and gear that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The notion that revenue from shows in major spaces supports the local stages, where it begins for performers like me, is just common sense," the star has said.
The musician is among several artists to donate his Mercury Prize funds to good deeds.
When Pulp received the prize in 1996 for their release Different Class, lead singer Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would give their prize money to the organization the charity.
During 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite divided her prize between a few good causes, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I donated a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," the artist explained to a publication.
Two years ago, the band donated their funds to the youth organization that supported their group, alongside other independent music bodies.
And winners that year M People gave their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Winning was ample," stated vocalist the singer. "The cash was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the cake. So our success touched another person's life."
Last week, the MVT revealed it had saved a couple of small stages in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and the second in Bristol were purchased under the community ownership initiative, which is backed by a national body and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the buildings.
