Sam Fender has donated the entirety of his £25k honor winnings to the trust for venues, which works to save the Britain's independent music venues.
He was given the prize on 16 October as his new release the album was named the top album of the previous year.
Fender has chosen to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his early career.
"I would not have achieved what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the region, and further afield, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These locations are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these locations have permanently closed – roughly 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, major artists including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which benefits smaller concert halls.
He also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help numerous small stages across the UK.
The donation supported locations that were facing imminent closure due to difficulties caused by floods, fires and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and sound issues.
Additional spaces received funding support in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that directly benefitted artists and fans.
"The notion that revenue from performances in major spaces supports the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just logical," the star has commented.
The musician is not the first artist to donate his Mercury Prize prize money to good deeds.
In Pulp won the award in the mid-90s for their release the album, vocalist Cocker announced that the band would give their prize money to the charity War Child.
That year, artist Ms Dynamite split her prize between several organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," the artist shared with outlets.
In recent years, the band donated their prize money to the youth organization that supported their group, alongside other independent music bodies.
And the 1994 recipients M People donated their winnings to a charity for MS after a close contact was diagnosed the illness.
"Winning was quite enough," remarked artist Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the cake. So our victory touched somebody else's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had protected two small stages in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
The Joiners in the city and the other in that location were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is funded by Arts Council England and supporters who buy "shares" in the properties.
