Sam Fender has donated the full amount of his £25k award winnings to the trust for venues, which functions to save the United Kingdom's small music venues.
The star was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his third album his work was chosen as the top album of the last 12 months.
Fender has decided to donate the funds to the trust, in recognition of the vital role local spots played in his initial steps.
"As an artist would not have achieved my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have permanently closed – roughly one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, major artists including the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
He also joined in, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to support 38 grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation supported spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from flooding, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Other venues received monetary aid in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that directly benefitted artists and audiences.
"The notion that funds from performances in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to donate his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
Back when the band won the award in the mid-90s for their record the album, vocalist Cocker declared that the group would donate their prize money to the organization War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer she divided her award across multiple organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked new equipment," Ms Dynamite told the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective gave their funds to the community center that nurtured their group, alongside other independent music bodies.
And winners that year the group gave their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was identified with the condition.
"The victory was ample," remarked artist Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning touched another person's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had rescued a couple of grassroots venues in south-east England, by transferring them to community ownership.
The Joiners in the city and the second in that location were purchased under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is funded by Arts Council England and music fans who purchase "stakes" in the properties.
