Sam Fender has given the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award cash to the trust for venues, which functions to protect the UK's small music venues.
Fender was awarded the award on mid-October as his latest record his work was named the best record of the previous year.
He has opted to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function small stages played in his beginning days.
"I would not have achieved my current career if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its efforts to support the industry, by applying a modest fee to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting more than £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
The money helped spaces that were confronting possible closure due to issues stemming from flooding, blazes and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained monetary aid in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and audiences.
"The notion that revenue from performances in big venues backs the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," the star has commented.
He is among several artists to give his Mercury Prize winnings to good deeds.
When the band won the prize in the year 1996 for their album the album, vocalist Cocker declared that the act would give their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer she split her bounty among multiple organizations, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I gave a £1,000 to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they required better apparatus," the artist told the media.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective gave their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their band, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Also the 1994 recipients the group contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was identified with the disease.
"The victory was quite enough," remarked artist the singer. "The prize was the extra but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the honor. So our success affected another person's life."
Recently, the trust announced it had rescued a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by placing them under public stewardship.
The Joiners in Southampton and the other in Bristol were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
