The artist has given the complete sum of his £25k award prize money to the MVT, which works to preserve the Britain's small live music spots.
The star was presented with the award on mid-October as his latest record the album was named the outstanding release of the past year.
He has opted to hand the money over to the trust, in appreciation of the essential function small stages fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I personally wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I played around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," said Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these locations have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, generating over £100k on his recent tour to support numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation supported spaces that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from floods, blazes and bereavements, as well as permit problems, court cases and noise complaints.
Some locations received funding support in modernizing amenities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted artists and audiences.
"The concept that money from shows in major spaces supports the local stages, where it begins for performers like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has commented.
The musician is among several artists to contribute his honor prize money to good deeds.
When they won the award in the mid-90s for their release Different Class, lead singer the singer stated that the act would give their prize money to the charity War Child.
During 2002, musician the artist shared her prize between multiple charities, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I donated a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they needed better apparatus," she explained to a publication.
In recent years, Ezra Collective gave their prize money to the community center that nurtured their act, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
And the 1994 recipients they contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was found to have the illness.
"Winning was quite enough," remarked artist the singer. "The cash was the extra but we could do without the extra, because we had the honor. So our success impacted the lives of others."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in south-east England, by placing them under local control.
The first in Southampton and the other in the city were acquired under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is backed by a national body and enthusiasts who acquire "ownership units" in the properties.
