The artist has handed over the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound honor prize money to the MVT, which operates to protect the Britain's small music venues.
The star was presented with the award on 16 October as his new release his work was named the best record of the past year.
The musician has opted to give the cash to the MVT, in appreciation of the essential function grassroots venues played in his early career.
"I personally wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I did around the region, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," said Sam Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these venues have ceased operations – roughly 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by including a small levy to their ticket prices, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist 38 small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation helped locations that were confronting possible closure due to challenges arising from flooding, blazes and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted financial assistance in modernizing facilities and technical equipment that directly benefitted performers and audiences.
"The notion that money from performances in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to contribute his award winnings to worthy causes.
In they won the prize in the year 1996 for their record their work, frontman Cocker stated that the group would give their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
That year, artist she split her bounty across multiple charities, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," she shared with a publication.
In recent years, they contributed their winnings to the local youth club that nurtured their act, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year they contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"The victory was quite enough," remarked vocalist the singer. "The cash was the extra but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning affected another person's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and The Croft in Bristol were bought under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is funded by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
