The artist has donated the complete sum of his £25,000 honor prize money to the MVT, which works to preserve the Britain's small music venues.
The star was given the prize on October 16 as his third album People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
He has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in recognition of the essential function local spots played in his beginning days.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing my current career if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the area, and further afield, when I was starting out," stated the artist. "These venues are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – about one-sixth of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, major artists including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by adding a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which benefits local stages.
Fender also took part, collecting more than £100,000 on his recent tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation assisted venues that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from water damage, fires and personal losses, as well as permit problems, court cases and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted funding support in improving amenities and technical equipment that helped performers and fans.
"The idea that revenue from performances in big venues helps the smaller venues, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his honor prize money to charitable organizations.
In they received the trophy in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, lead singer the singer announced that the band would contribute their winnings to the non-profit the charity.
During 2002, artist she divided her bounty among multiple organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they required new equipment," Ms Dynamite told outlets.
In recent years, the band donated their winnings to the community center that nurtured their group, alongside other local music groups.
And winners that year the group donated their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was found to have the disease.
"The victory was ample," said vocalist Heather Small. "The prize was the cherry on top but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our victory impacted another person's life."
Recently, the MVT announced it had protected two local spots in south-east England, by bringing them into local control.
One venue in the city and The Croft in that location were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is supported by a national body and music fans who purchase "ownership units" in the properties.
