The artist has given the entirety of his £25,000 award winnings to the trust for venues, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's independent live music spots.
He was presented with the prize on October 16 as his new release the album was named the best record of the past year.
He has opted to donate the funds to the trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function small stages had in his beginning days.
"As an artist would not have achieved my current career if it weren't for all the gigs I performed around the area, and beyond, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These venues are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these locations have shut down – approximately 16% of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by including a small levy to their ticket prices, which supports independent venues.
Fender also joined in, collecting over £100k on his live tour to assist thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
The money helped venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to difficulties stemming from water damage, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in modernizing facilities and technical equipment that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from shows in major spaces helps the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to contribute his honor funds to charitable organizations.
When they earned the trophy in the mid-90s for their release their work, frontman Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would contribute their prize money to the non-profit the charity.
That year, artist the artist split her bounty across a few good causes, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I donated a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," she told the media.
Two years ago, the band contributed their funds to the community center that nurtured their group, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally the 1994 recipients the group gave their winnings to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was diagnosed the illness.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," remarked artist the singer. "The prize was the cherry on top but we could do without the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success touched another person's life."
Recently, the MVT revealed it had rescued a couple of local spots in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and the other in Bristol were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is backed by a national body and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.
