The artist has donated the entirety of his £25,000 award prize money to the trust for venues, which works to save the United Kingdom's grassroots live music spots.
The star was presented with the award on mid-October as his third album his work was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
The musician has opted to donate the funds to the MVT, in appreciation of the essential function local spots played in his initial steps.
"I personally wouldn't be doing this success if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked Sam Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these locations have shut down – approximately 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to support the industry, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Fender also participated, generating more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across Britain.
The donation supported locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges stemming from water damage, fires and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces received funding support in improving amenities and technical equipment that helped musicians and concertgoers.
"The notion that revenue from performances in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
Fender is among several artists to donate his award winnings to good deeds.
In they earned the award in the mid-90s for their album Different Class, lead singer Cocker announced that the group would donate their prize money to the charity War Child.
During 2002, musician she shared her prize among several good causes, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I contributed a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they required new equipment," she explained to outlets.
Two years ago, they contributed their funds to the community center that developed their band, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also 1994 winners they contributed their award to a charity for MS after a friend was diagnosed the illness.
"Winning was quite enough," said artist Small. "The money was the extra but we could do without the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our victory impacted another person's life."
Last week, the trust revealed it had saved two grassroots venues in south-east England, by placing them under public stewardship.
The Joiners in that area and The Croft in the city were purchased under the community ownership initiative, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the properties.
