The star has donated the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the MVT, which works to protect the Britain's small concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the cheque on 16 October as his latest record his work was named the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the MVT, in appreciation of the essential function local spots had in his initial steps.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it weren't for all the shows I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These locations are renowned, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these spaces have shut down – about one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, well-known musicians such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a modest fee to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also joined in, generating more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to support numerous small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds supported venues that were confronting imminent closure due to difficulties caused by water damage, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces received funding support in improving facilities and technical equipment that helped performers and fans.
"The notion that revenue from performances in major spaces helps the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is not the first artist to contribute his honor funds to worthy causes.
Back when the band earned the prize in the year 1996 for their record the album, frontman Cocker declared that the act would contribute their winnings to the charity the charity.
That year, artist Ms Dynamite shared her prize between multiple good causes, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," the artist shared with outlets.
Two years ago, they donated their winnings to the community center that supported their act, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Also the 1994 recipients M People gave their award to a charity for MS after a close contact was diagnosed the condition.
"Receiving the award was ample," stated vocalist Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the main prize. So our winning impacted somebody else's life."
In the past week, the MVT announced it had protected a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to community ownership.
The first in Southampton and the other in that location were bought under the community ownership scheme, which is backed by the arts council and music fans who buy "shares" in the venues.
