The star has handed over the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound honor prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was presented with the prize on October 16 as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
The musician has chosen to donate the funds to the trust, in appreciation of the crucial part local spots played in his early career.
"I personally wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I did around the area, and beyond, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These locations are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – roughly one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which supports local stages.
Sam Fender also participated, generating over £100k on his live tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds supported locations that were dealing with imminent closure due to challenges caused by floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Additional spaces received funding support in modernizing amenities and technical equipment that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The idea that revenue from performances in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it all starts for artists like me, is just logical," the star has commented.
He is among several artists to contribute his award winnings to worthy causes.
In they earned the trophy in the mid-90s for their release Different Class, lead singer the singer announced that the band would donate their winnings to the charity War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer the artist divided her bounty across several good causes, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I gave a £1,000 to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," the artist explained to a publication.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective contributed their winnings to the community center that nurtured their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
And the 1994 recipients they donated their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was identified with the condition.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," said singer the singer. "The prize was the extra but we could do without the cherry, because we had the honor. So our victory impacted another person's life."
In the past week, the trust announced it had protected a couple of small stages in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
One venue in that area and the other in the city were purchased under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is backed by the arts council and enthusiasts who acquire "ownership units" in the buildings.
