The artist has donated the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the trust for venues, which works to protect the UK's independent live music spots.
He was presented with the prize on mid-October as his new release People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the past year.
The musician has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in appreciation of the essential function grassroots venues fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist would not have achieved what I am doing today if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the area, and beyond, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These venues are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have permanently closed – about 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, well-known musicians such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by including a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Sam Fender also participated, raising more than £100,000 on his live tour to assist numerous small stages across the UK.
The donation supported locations that were confronting imminent closure due to difficulties stemming from floods, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues obtained monetary aid in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted musicians and fans.
"The concept that money from performances in big venues helps the smaller venues, where it all starts for performers like me, is just logical," the star has said.
The musician is far from the only musician to donate his honor winnings to charitable organizations.
In Pulp won the award in the year 1996 for their record the album, frontman Cocker stated that the band would donate their winnings to the charity War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer the artist shared her bounty among a few organizations, such as the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I gave a grand to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," she shared with the media.
Previously, Ezra Collective contributed their winnings to the youth organization that supported their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year the group donated their prize to a MS organization after a friend was identified with the disease.
"The victory was ample," remarked singer the singer. "The cash was the extra but we didn't need the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning affected the lives of others."
Last week, the MVT revealed it had saved a couple of local spots in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
One venue in Southampton and The Croft in that location were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is backed by the arts council and music fans who purchase "ownership units" in the venues.
