The star has handed over the full amount of his £25,000 honor winnings to the MVT, which works to preserve the Britain's small concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the award on October 16 as his latest record his work was chosen as the top album of the past year.
He has opted to donate the funds to the trust, in appreciation of the essential function small stages had in his initial steps.
"I couldn't be pursuing this success if it wasn't for all the performances I did around the area, and beyond, when I was just getting going," stated Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these locations have ceased operations – about one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
Recently, well-known musicians including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its efforts to support the industry, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which supports independent venues.
Sam Fender also joined in, collecting over £100k on his live tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation assisted venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges caused by water damage, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Other venues were granted monetary aid in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from performances in big venues helps the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to give his honor prize money to good deeds.
In they received the trophy in 1996 for their album the album, frontman the singer stated that the band would give their winnings to the charity War Child.
During 2002, musician the artist divided her award across multiple charities, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I contributed a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," the artist explained to the media.
Two years ago, the band donated their winnings to the youth organization that developed their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year M People donated their winnings to a MS organization after a friend was diagnosed the condition.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," said artist the singer. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT shared it had protected several grassroots venues in that region, by bringing them into community ownership.
One venue in that area and the other in that location were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is supported by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
