The artist has handed over the entirety of his £25,000 honor winnings to the trust for venues, which functions to protect the UK's independent music venues.
He was given the award on mid-October as his latest record People Watching was named the top album of the last 12 months.
He has opted to hand the money over to the trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist would not have achieved my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I performed around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have shut down – about 16% of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its attempts to support the industry, by including a small levy to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds helped spaces that were facing imminent closure due to difficulties stemming from floods, fires and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Some locations received financial assistance in modernizing infrastructure and gear that positively impacted performers and fans.
"The notion that funds from concerts in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for performers like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has said.
The musician is among several artists to contribute his award winnings to good deeds.
In Pulp earned the award in the year 1996 for their album the album, lead singer Cocker announced that the group would donate their winnings to the charity War Child.
That year, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite shared her bounty between several good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I donated a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
In recent years, the band donated their funds to the community center that developed their band, alongside other local music groups.
Additionally winners that year M People donated their award to a charity for MS after a friend was identified with the illness.
"Receiving the award was ample," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the honor. So our victory impacted the lives of others."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had protected a couple of local spots in the South East, by bringing them into community ownership.
The first in Southampton and the second in that location were acquired under the public acquisition program, which is supported by the arts council and supporters who purchase "shares" in the buildings.
