The artist has donated the complete sum of his £25,000 honor prize money to the trust for venues, which works to preserve the United Kingdom's independent concert spaces.
Fender was presented with the prize on mid-October as his third album his work was named the outstanding release of the previous year.
He has opted to give the cash to the trust, in recognition of the essential function grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing this success if it hadn't been for all the gigs I played around the region, and beyond, when I was starting out," said Sam Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these spaces have shut down – roughly 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, well-known musicians including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which goes to help independent venues.
He also joined in, generating more than £100,000 on his live tour to support numerous small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money helped spaces that were facing potential shutdown due to issues caused by water damage, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces received financial assistance in improving infrastructure and gear that positively impacted musicians and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from concerts in large arenas helps the independent spots, where it begins for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
He is not the first artist to give his award funds to good deeds.
When they earned the trophy in 1996 for their album their work, lead singer the singer announced that the group would donate their cash to the charity War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite divided her award between several good causes, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I donated a £1,000 to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they required better apparatus," the artist explained to a publication.
Previously, the band gave their prize money to the youth organization that developed their band, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Also the 1994 recipients the group gave their winnings to a MS organization after a close contact was diagnosed the condition.
"The victory was quite enough," stated singer the singer. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the cake. So our success affected somebody else's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust announced it had rescued two local spots in south-east England, by transferring them to community ownership.
The first in that area and the second in the city were acquired under the public acquisition initiative, which is funded by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who buy "stakes" in the buildings.
