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The star has donated the full amount of his £25,000 award winnings to the MVT, which operates to preserve the Britain's independent music venues.

Fender was awarded the prize on October 16 as his latest record his work was named the outstanding release of the last 12 months.

The musician has chosen to hand the money over to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues played in his beginning days.

"I would not have achieved this success if it weren't for all the gigs I played around the region, and beyond, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These locations are iconic, but they are in difficulty."

From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – about one-sixth of the entire UK sector.

In the last year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by adding a small levy to their admission fees, which benefits smaller concert halls.

Fender also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to support 38 small stages across Britain.

The donation assisted locations that were confronting possible closure due to issues arising from water damage, blazes and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, court cases and sound issues.

Additional spaces received financial assistance in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.

"The notion that funds from concerts in major spaces helps the local stages, where it begins for artists like me, is just common sense," Fender has commented.

The musician is among several artists to donate his honor funds to good deeds.

In they won the award in the mid-90s for their album their work, frontman the singer stated that the act would donate their cash to the charity the charity.

That year, musician Ms Dynamite shared her award across a few charities, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.

"I also gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they needed better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told the media.

In recent years, they contributed their funds to the youth organization that developed their band, as well as other independent music bodies.

And the 1994 recipients the group gave their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was found to have the condition.

"Winning was sufficient," said artist Small. "The prize was the bonus but we could do without the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success touched somebody else's life."

Last week, the MVT shared it had protected several grassroots venues in south-east England, by transferring them to local control.

The first in the city and the other in the city were purchased under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is supported by a national body and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the buildings.