The star has given the entirety of his £25,000 honor cash to the MVT, which functions to save the Britain's small live music spots.
The star was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his third album his work was chosen as the best record of the past year.
He has opted to hand the money over to the trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part local spots played in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16% of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by adding a small levy to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also joined in, collecting over £100k on his live tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
The donation helped venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues caused by floods, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces were granted funding support in upgrading amenities and gear that helped musicians and fans.
"The concept that money from performances in big venues helps the independent spots, where it all starts for performers like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is among several artists to give his honor funds to good deeds.
Back when the band won the award in the mid-90s for their release Different Class, frontman Cocker announced that the act would donate their prize money to the organization the charity.
In 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite divided her award across multiple organizations, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I donated a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked new equipment," she explained to a publication.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective contributed their funds to the youth organization that supported their group, alongside other local music groups.
Also the 1994 recipients M People donated their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was identified with the illness.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," remarked vocalist Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the cake. So our winning touched the lives of others."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had saved several small stages in south-east England, by placing them under public stewardship.
The first in that area and the other in Bristol were purchased under the Own Our Venues program, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the buildings.
