The star has handed over the entirety of his £25k honor prize money to the MVT, which functions to save the Britain's grassroots live music spots.
Fender was awarded the award on October 16 as his new release the album was declared the best record of the previous year.
He has opted to give the cash to the MVT, in appreciation of the essential function small stages fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I personally wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the shows I played around the North East, and further afield, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These locations are renowned, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, major artists such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a small levy to their admission fees, which benefits independent venues.
Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to help thirty-eight small stages across the UK.
The donation assisted locations that were facing possible closure due to difficulties caused by floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted monetary aid in upgrading facilities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The idea that funds from performances in big venues backs the local stages, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his award funds to good deeds.
When the band received the award in 1996 for their release their work, frontman Cocker announced that the group would donate their winnings to the charity War Child.
That year, musician the artist split her bounty across a few good causes, 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 trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," the artist explained to the media.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the community center that nurtured their group, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
And 1994 winners they donated their winnings to a charity for MS after a close contact was found to have the illness.
"Winning was ample," said vocalist the singer. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success touched the lives of others."
Last week, the trust revealed it had rescued two grassroots venues in that region, by bringing them into local control.
One venue in Southampton and the other in that location were acquired under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who purchase "ownership units" in the buildings.
