The star has given the full amount of his £25k honor prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to protect the United Kingdom's independent live music spots.
The star was presented with the award on 16 October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the top album of the past year.
He has chosen to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I would not have achieved my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I played around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These spaces are renowned, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these locations have shut down – about 16% of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by applying a small levy to their ticket prices, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
The money helped locations that were facing potential shutdown due to issues caused by water damage, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Other venues obtained financial assistance in upgrading infrastructure and gear that positively impacted performers and concertgoers.
"The notion that funds from concerts in major spaces supports the smaller venues, where it all starts for artists like me, is just logical," the star has said.
The musician is far from the only musician to give his Mercury Prize winnings to good deeds.
Back when the band earned the trophy in 1996 for their release their work, frontman Cocker declared that the group would give their prize money to the charity the charity.
In 2002, rapper and singer the artist shared her award across multiple charities, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," she explained to the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their prize money to the youth organization that developed their group, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year M People gave their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was found to have the illness.
"The victory was quite enough," stated singer Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning impacted the lives of others."
In the past week, the trust announced it had protected several small stages in the South East, by placing them under local control.
The first in that area and the other in that location were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the buildings.
