The star has donated the entirety of his £25,000 honor cash to the MVT, which functions to preserve the United Kingdom's independent music venues.
He was given the prize on 16 October as his third album People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has chosen to give the cash to the trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part small stages had in his beginning days.
"I wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the shows I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was just getting going," remarked Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these locations have shut down – roughly 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its initiatives to support the industry, by adding a modest fee to their ticket costs, which goes to help independent venues.
Sam Fender also participated, raising over £100k on his recent tour to support 38 local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds supported locations that were facing potential shutdown due to issues caused by floods, fires and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues were granted monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that helped artists and fans.
"The concept that funds from shows in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it begins for performers like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has said.
Fender is among several artists to contribute his honor prize money to good deeds.
When they won the trophy in the mid-90s for their record the album, frontman Cocker announced that the group would donate their prize money to the organization War Child.
That year, artist Ms Dynamite shared her award between multiple organizations, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I contributed a grand to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," she explained to outlets.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective gave their funds to the community center that supported their act, alongside other local music groups.
Additionally winners that year M People gave their prize to a MS organization after a friend was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the cake. So our victory affected another person's life."
In the past week, the trust revealed it had saved two small stages in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The first in that area and the other in Bristol were purchased under the public acquisition scheme, which is backed by Arts Council England and supporters who purchase "shares" in the buildings.
