Sam Fender has donated the full amount of his £25,000 award winnings to the trust for venues, which operates to preserve the Britain's independent music venues.
The star was given the award on mid-October as his new release the album was chosen as the top album of the last 12 months.
The musician has chosen to give the cash to the MVT, in recognition of the essential function grassroots venues fulfilled in his early career.
"I couldn't be pursuing this success if it hadn't been for all the shows I did around the area, and further afield, when I was beginning," said Sam Fender. "These spaces are legendary, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these locations have permanently closed – roughly 16 percent of the total UK scene.
In the last year, well-known musicians like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a small levy to their ticket prices, which goes to help independent venues.
Sam Fender also took part, generating in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to help 38 local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds helped locations that were confronting imminent closure due to issues caused by floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Other venues were granted financial assistance in modernizing infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and concertgoers.
"The notion that revenue from shows in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it begins for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to give his honor winnings to good deeds.
Back when Pulp earned the award in the mid-90s for their record the album, vocalist Jarvis Cocker stated that the band would give their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
In 2002, musician she divided her award across several organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I donated a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," she told a publication.
Two years ago, they contributed their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their act, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also 1994 winners the group gave their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was found to have the disease.
"Winning was ample," stated vocalist the singer. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success affected another person's life."
Last week, the trust announced it had protected a couple of small stages in the South East, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were acquired under the public acquisition initiative, which is funded by a national body and enthusiasts who buy "shares" in the venues.
