Sam Fender has given the full amount of his £25,000 honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the Britain's small concert spaces.
The star was given the prize on 16 October as his latest record the album was declared the top album of the previous year.
Fender has opted to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role local spots had in his beginning days.
"As an artist would not have achieved what I am doing today if it weren't for all the gigs I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – about 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts such as the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to support the industry, by applying a small levy to their admission fees, which benefits independent venues.
Sam Fender also joined in, generating over £100k on his recent tour to help 38 local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted venues that were confronting possible closure due to difficulties caused by water damage, fires and personal losses, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces received monetary aid in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from shows in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it begins for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has said.
Fender is among several artists to donate his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
When Pulp earned the trophy in the mid-90s for their record the album, frontman Cocker declared that the band would contribute their cash to the organization the charity.
That year, rapper and singer she divided her bounty among a few charities, such as the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I gave a thousand pounds to the center, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," the artist explained to a publication.
Two years ago, the band gave their funds to the community center that developed their band, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year M People contributed their winnings to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"The victory was quite enough," remarked artist Heather Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the honor. So our victory touched the lives of others."
In the past week, the MVT revealed it had saved a couple of small stages in south-east England, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and the second in Bristol were purchased under the community ownership initiative, which is backed by a national body and supporters who purchase "shares" in the buildings.
