Sam Fender has donated the full amount of his £25k award winnings to the trust for venues, which functions to preserve the UK's small concert spaces.
He was given the prize on 16 October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the best record of the past year.
The musician has chosen to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the vital role local spots had in his beginning days.
"I couldn't be pursuing this success if it hadn't been for all the performances I played around the North East, and beyond, when I was beginning," remarked Sam Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these spaces have shut down – roughly 16% of the total UK scene.
Recently, well-known musicians like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a small levy to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, raising more than £100,000 on his recent tour to support thirty-eight local spots across the UK.
The money assisted venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties arising from flooding, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained funding support in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that positively impacted musicians and fans.
"The idea that revenue from performances in large arenas backs the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is far from the only musician to give his honor funds to worthy causes.
Back when they earned the prize in the mid-90s for their record Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would donate their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
That year, rapper and singer she divided her bounty between several charities, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I contributed a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told outlets.
Previously, the band donated their funds to the local youth club that developed their group, in addition to other local music groups.
Also the 1994 recipients M People donated their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Winning was sufficient," said singer Heather Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success impacted the lives of others."
Last week, the trust revealed it had saved a couple of local spots in south-east England, by bringing them into local control.
The first in that area and The Croft in Bristol were acquired under the community ownership initiative, which is supported by the arts council and supporters who purchase "ownership units" in the properties.
