Sam Fender has given the full amount of his £25k award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to protect the UK's small live music spots.
He was awarded the award on mid-October as his third album his work was declared the top album of the past year.
He has opted to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the crucial part small stages played in his initial steps.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I played around the area, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these locations have permanently closed – roughly one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, well-known musicians including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its attempts to support the industry, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also took part, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to support thirty-eight grassroots venues across Britain.
The money supported venues that were confronting possible closure due to difficulties caused by floods, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces obtained monetary aid in improving infrastructure and technical equipment that directly benefitted artists and fans.
"The notion that funds from performances in big venues helps the smaller venues, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has said.
The musician is not the first artist to give his award funds to worthy causes.
When the band earned the trophy in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker declared that the act would contribute their prize money to the charity the charity.
During 2002, artist the artist divided her prize across multiple good causes, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked new equipment," Ms Dynamite told outlets.
In recent years, they gave their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year they gave their winnings to a charity for MS after a close contact was found to have the condition.
"Winning was quite enough," stated artist Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success touched the lives of others."
Recently, the trust shared it had saved a couple of small stages in that region, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The Joiners in the city and The Croft in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition program, which is funded by the arts council and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the buildings.
