The artist has donated the complete sum of his £25k honor winnings to the MVT, which functions to preserve the UK's small music venues.
The star was given the award on October 16 as his latest record People Watching was named the best record of the past year.
Fender has opted to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part small stages played in his beginning days.
"I couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the gigs I played around the region, and beyond, when I was beginning," said Sam Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these locations have shut down – about 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, well-known musicians such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which goes to help local stages.
Fender also joined in, raising in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help 38 small stages across the UK.
The donation assisted spaces that were dealing with possible closure due to difficulties arising from flooding, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted funding support in upgrading facilities and technical equipment that helped performers and fans.
"The idea that money from concerts in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it begins for performers like me, is just logical," the star has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to give his honor prize money to charitable organizations.
In they earned the trophy in the year 1996 for their album Different Class, vocalist the singer declared that the band would donate their prize money to the organization War Child.
That year, artist the artist split her prize between a few good causes, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also donated a grand to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," she explained to the media.
Two years ago, they contributed their funds to the youth organization that supported their group, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year M People gave their award to a MS organization after a close contact was diagnosed the illness.
"Winning was sufficient," remarked artist Heather Small. "The money was the bonus but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the honor. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had rescued a couple of small stages in the South East, by placing them under public stewardship.
The first in the city and The Croft in that location were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is backed by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who acquire "stakes" in the properties.
