The artist has handed over the entirety of his £25,000 award winnings to the MVT, which functions to preserve the UK's independent live music spots.
Fender was awarded the award on 16 October as his latest record the album was named the best record of the past year.
The musician has opted to give the cash to the trust, in appreciation of the vital role small stages played in his initial steps.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I did around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," remarked Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by adding a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which benefits local stages.
He also joined in, generating in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to help numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation helped venues that were facing possible closure due to difficulties arising from floods, fires and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces were granted monetary aid in upgrading infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and concertgoers.
"The concept that funds from performances in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to contribute his award prize money to good deeds.
Back when they earned the prize in 1996 for their album the album, lead singer the singer stated that the band would donate their cash to the organization War Child.
In 2002, artist Ms Dynamite split her bounty among a few good causes, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also contributed a grand to the center, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to outlets.
In recent years, they contributed their winnings to the community center that supported their band, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Also the 1994 recipients they contributed their award to a MS organization after a close contact was found to have the illness.
"The victory was sufficient," stated singer Small. "The prize was the cherry on top but we didn't require the extra, because we had the cake. So our success impacted somebody else's life."
Recently, the trust revealed it had protected several small stages in the South East, by placing them under public stewardship.
The first in that area and The Croft in that location were purchased under the community ownership initiative, which is funded by a national body and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the properties.
