The artist has handed over the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound award winnings to the MVT, which works to preserve the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
Fender was presented with the prize on 16 October as his new release People Watching was chosen as the best record of the last 12 months.
He has chosen to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role small stages played in his initial steps.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing this success if it hadn't been for all the performances I did around the region, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – roughly 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a small levy to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
He also participated, raising in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to support 38 local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation helped locations that were facing possible closure due to difficulties arising from floods, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and sound issues.
Additional spaces obtained funding support in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that helped performers and concertgoers.
"The notion that money from shows in major spaces helps the local stages, where it begins for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is among several artists to give his award winnings to charitable organizations.
When they received the trophy in the mid-90s for their release the album, vocalist Jarvis Cocker stated that the band would contribute their prize money to the charity War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite divided her bounty between several organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I donated a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they required new equipment," she shared with outlets.
Previously, the band contributed their prize money to the community center that nurtured their group, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
And 1994 winners they contributed their award to a charity for MS after a close contact was diagnosed the illness.
"Winning was quite enough," said vocalist Heather Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't require the extra, because we had the honor. So our victory affected somebody else's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
One venue in that area and The Croft in Bristol were acquired under the Own Our Venues program, which is backed by a national body and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the properties.
