Sam Fender has donated the complete sum of his £25k award winnings to the trust for venues, which works to preserve the Britain's small concert spaces.
The star was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his latest record his work was chosen as the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
The musician has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in recognition of the essential function small stages had in his initial steps.
"I personally wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the North East, and further afield, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These spaces are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, top acts such as the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its attempts to help venues survive, by adding a small levy to their admission fees, which goes to help local stages.
He also joined in, collecting more than £100,000 on his live tour to support numerous grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds supported spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from water damage, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and noise complaints.
Additional spaces obtained monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and gear that helped performers and fans.
"The notion that funds from performances in major spaces supports the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
Fender is among several artists to give his Mercury Prize prize money to worthy causes.
In the band won the prize in 1996 for their album their work, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would donate their cash to the non-profit War Child.
In 2002, musician the artist shared her prize among several organizations, such as the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also gave a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," she explained to the media.
Previously, they contributed their funds to the local youth club that supported their group, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year the group contributed their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was found to have the disease.
"The victory was quite enough," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The prize was the cherry on top but we didn't require the extra, because we had the main prize. So our success affected another person's life."
In the past week, the trust revealed it had protected two small stages in the South East, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in the city and The Croft in Bristol were purchased under the community ownership initiative, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who buy "stakes" in the buildings.
