The star has given the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound award cash to the trust for venues, which functions to preserve the United Kingdom's small music venues.
Fender was presented with the cheque on 16 October as his latest record his work was chosen as the top album of the last 12 months.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the vital role local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist would not have achieved my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I performed around the region, and beyond, when I was starting out," said Sam Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – roughly one-sixth of the total UK scene.
Recently, top acts like Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by adding a minor surcharge to their ticket prices, which goes to help independent venues.
He also took part, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to help thirty-eight local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds helped venues that were facing possible closure due to difficulties stemming from water damage, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained monetary aid in improving amenities and gear that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The notion that funds from concerts in big venues supports the smaller venues, where it begins for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
He is not the first artist to give his award prize money to worthy causes.
In they earned the award in the mid-90s for their record Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would donate their cash to the charity the charity.
During 2002, musician Ms Dynamite shared her prize among a few organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I donated a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," she told the media.
Previously, Ezra Collective donated their funds to the youth organization that supported their group, in addition to other independent music bodies.
And 1994 winners the group donated their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was diagnosed the condition.
"Receiving the award was ample," said artist Heather Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the honor. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT shared it had rescued a couple of grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The Joiners in the city and The Croft in the city were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is supported by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the properties.
