The star has donated the entirety of his £25,000 honor winnings to the trust for venues, which works to save the Britain's grassroots concert spaces.
He was awarded the award on 16 October as his latest record People Watching was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has decided to donate the funds to the trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"I couldn't be pursuing this success if it hadn't been for all the shows I did around the region, and further afield, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these venues have shut down – about 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by adding a modest fee to their admission fees, which goes to help independent venues.
Sam Fender also joined in, generating in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges arising from floods, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Other venues were granted financial assistance in upgrading facilities and gear that positively impacted artists and fans.
"The concept that funds from shows in big venues helps the smaller venues, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his award funds to worthy causes.
When they received the award in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, frontman Cocker declared that the band would contribute their cash to the organization War Child.
During 2002, artist the artist shared her prize between a few organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I contributed a £1,000 to the center, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," she told a publication.
In recent years, they contributed their funds to the community center that developed their act, as well as other independent music bodies.
And winners that year M People contributed their winnings to a charity for MS after a close contact was diagnosed the condition.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," said singer Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our victory touched somebody else's life."
Last week, the MVT revealed it had saved two local spots in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and the other in Bristol were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is backed by a national body and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.
