The star has donated the complete sum of his £25,000 award prize money to the MVT, which works to protect the UK's small live music spots.
Fender was presented with the prize on October 16 as his third album People Watching was named the outstanding release of the past year.
The musician has decided to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"I couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the shows I performed around the area, and beyond, when I was starting out," said Sam Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these venues have ceased operations – about 16 percent of the total UK scene.
In the last year, top acts including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to support the industry, by including a modest fee to their ticket costs, which supports local stages.
Sam Fender also participated, raising over £100k on his recent tour to assist numerous local spots across the UK.
The money assisted locations that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues arising from water damage, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Other venues were granted financial assistance in modernizing amenities and technical equipment that positively impacted performers and concertgoers.
"The notion that revenue from concerts in large arenas supports the smaller venues, where it all starts for performers like me, is just logical," Fender has stated.
The musician is not the first artist to contribute his honor prize money to worthy causes.
When Pulp earned the trophy in the mid-90s for their album the album, lead singer Cocker stated that the group would donate their prize money to the organization War Child.
That year, musician she split her prize between multiple organizations, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I donated a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they required better apparatus," she shared with outlets.
In recent years, they gave their prize money to the community center that nurtured their act, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
And the 1994 recipients the group donated their award to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," stated artist the singer. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our winning impacted somebody else's life."
In the past week, the MVT shared it had rescued a couple of local spots in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
The Joiners in Southampton and the other in the city were bought under the public acquisition program, which is supported by Arts Council England and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the properties.
