The star has donated the entirety of his £25,000 award prize money to the trust for venues, which functions to preserve the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the award on 16 October as his third album the album was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
He has decided to give the cash to the trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role local spots had in his initial steps.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing this success if it weren't for all the performances I did around the North East, and further afield, when I was just getting going," remarked Sam Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – about 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, major artists like the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which goes to help local stages.
Sam Fender also participated, generating more than £100,000 on his recent tour to help 38 local spots across the UK.
The donation assisted venues that were dealing with possible closure due to issues stemming from floods, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted financial assistance in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The notion that money from performances in big venues supports the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to donate his award prize money to good deeds.
Back when they received the trophy in 1996 for their release Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker declared that the act would contribute their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
That year, musician the artist split her bounty between several good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I contributed a £1,000 to the center, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they needed new equipment," she shared with the media.
Two years ago, the band donated their prize money to the community center that developed their band, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
And the 1994 recipients M People gave their winnings to a charity for MS after a close contact was diagnosed the illness.
"The victory was quite enough," said artist Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the honor. So our success touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT announced it had rescued two small stages in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and The Croft in that location were bought under the community ownership scheme, which is supported by a national body and music fans who purchase "ownership units" in the venues.
