Sam Fender has donated the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound award cash to the trust for venues, which operates to preserve the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was given the prize on mid-October as his third album the album was declared the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
The musician has chosen to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function grassroots venues fulfilled in his initial steps.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I did around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated Sam Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – roughly 16 percent of the total UK scene.
In the last year, top acts including the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
He also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to support 38 local spots across Britain.
These funds supported spaces that were facing possible closure due to challenges caused by floods, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Other venues were granted financial assistance in improving amenities and gear that positively impacted musicians and audiences.
"The idea that funds from concerts in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it all starts for performers like me, is just logical," the star has commented.
The musician is not the first artist to donate his award funds to charitable organizations.
In the band won the trophy in the mid-90s for their record Different Class, frontman Cocker announced that the act would donate their cash to the organization War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer the artist split her award across multiple organizations, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I contributed a grand to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they required updated gear," Ms Dynamite explained to outlets.
Two years ago, the band contributed their winnings to the community center that nurtured their band, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Also the 1994 recipients they contributed their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was diagnosed the condition.
"The victory was quite enough," remarked artist Small. "The prize was the extra but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our victory affected somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had rescued several small stages in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
The first in the city and the second in that location were acquired under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is funded by a national body and enthusiasts who buy "ownership units" in the properties.
