The musician gives twenty-five thousand pounds award winnings to small music venues

The star has given the full amount of his £25,000 honor prize money to the MVT, which works to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.

He was given the award on October 16 as his third album People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the last 12 months.

The musician has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the vital role grassroots venues had in his beginning days.

"I couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I did around the area, and further afield, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These spaces are renowned, but they are struggling."

Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these venues have shut down – about one-sixth of the total UK scene.

In the last year, well-known musicians like the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their ticket costs, which goes to help independent venues.

Sam Fender also joined in, raising over £100k on his live tour to support 38 small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.

The money assisted spaces that were confronting potential shutdown due to issues stemming from flooding, blazes and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and noise complaints.

Additional spaces were granted monetary aid in modernizing amenities and technical equipment that helped artists and concertgoers.

"The concept that revenue from performances in big venues backs the local stages, where it begins for performers like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.

The musician is not the first artist to give his Mercury Prize prize money to good deeds.

When the band won the prize in the mid-90s for their record their work, frontman the singer declared that the band would donate their winnings to the non-profit War Child.

During 2002, artist she shared her award between several charities, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.

"I also gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," Ms Dynamite shared with the media.

Previously, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the local youth club that developed their act, as well as other independent music bodies.

Additionally the 1994 recipients the group donated their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was found to have the disease.

"Receiving the award was quite enough," remarked singer the singer. "The money was the extra but we could do without the bonus, because we had the honor. So our victory affected the lives of others."

Recently, the MVT announced it had rescued two local spots in the South East, by bringing them into community ownership.

The Joiners in that area and the other in that location were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is supported by a national body and supporters who buy "stakes" in the properties.