The artist has donated the complete sum of his £25,000 honor cash to the trust for venues, which works to save the United Kingdom's independent concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the cheque on October 16 as his third album the album was named the outstanding release of the previous year.
The musician has decided to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part grassroots venues played in his initial steps.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the area, and further afield, when I was beginning," stated Sam Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have ceased operations – about 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its initiatives to support the industry, by including a small levy to their ticket prices, which goes to help independent venues.
He also joined in, raising over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to assist thirty-eight grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds assisted venues that were dealing with possible closure due to difficulties stemming from floods, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, court cases and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted financial assistance in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that helped musicians and concertgoers.
"The idea that funds from performances in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it all starts for performers like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his honor winnings to good deeds.
When Pulp won the prize in 1996 for their album their work, vocalist the singer announced that the act would give their prize money to the charity War Child.
In 2002, musician she shared her award across several charities, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I donated a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told the media.
In recent years, they donated their winnings to the community center that supported their group, alongside other independent music bodies.
And 1994 winners M People gave their prize to a MS organization after a acquaintance was diagnosed the condition.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," said artist Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success affected somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had rescued a couple of small stages in the South East, by transferring them to local control.
The Joiners in the city and the other in that location were bought under the community ownership initiative, which is backed by a national body and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
