Sam Fender has donated the entirety of his £25,000 award winnings to the trust for venues, which operates to protect the Britain's independent music venues.
Fender was presented with the award on 16 October as his third album the album was declared the top album of the past year.
Fender has opted to give the cash to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues had in his early career.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated Sam Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – about 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, major artists like the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to support the industry, by adding a modest fee to their ticket prices, which benefits smaller concert halls.
He also participated, generating over £100k on his live tour to help numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by flooding, fires and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, conflicts and noise complaints.
Some locations received financial assistance in improving infrastructure and technical equipment that helped artists and audiences.
"The notion that revenue from concerts in big venues backs the independent spots, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has said.
Fender is not the first artist to give his Mercury Prize prize money to charitable organizations.
Back when the band received the award in 1996 for their release Different Class, frontman the singer declared that the act would contribute their prize money to the charity War Child.
In 2002, musician she split her prize across a few good causes, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I contributed a grand to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite shared with outlets.
Previously, the band contributed their winnings to the community center that nurtured their group, alongside other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year the group contributed their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was found to have the illness.
"Receiving the award was ample," said artist the singer. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the cake. So our victory affected another person's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had rescued two grassroots venues in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in that area and The Croft in the city were acquired under the community ownership initiative, which is backed by the arts council and music fans who acquire "shares" in the properties.
