The star has donated the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound honor prize money to the MVT, which operates to protect the UK's independent concert spaces.
He was presented with the prize on mid-October as his third album People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the past year.
He has decided to give the cash to the trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role grassroots venues fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I played around the North East, and further afield, when I was beginning," remarked Sam Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its attempts to help venues survive, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket prices, which supports independent venues.
Sam Fender also took part, generating more than £100,000 on his recent tour to support numerous grassroots venues across the UK.
The donation helped venues that were facing imminent closure due to challenges arising from water damage, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, conflicts and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted funding support in modernizing amenities and gear that directly benefitted artists and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from shows in large arenas backs the local stages, where it begins for performers like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has said.
The musician is not the first artist to donate his award winnings to worthy causes.
In Pulp earned the prize in 1996 for their release the album, vocalist the singer declared that the act would contribute their prize money to the organization War Child.
During 2002, artist Ms Dynamite shared her bounty between several good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I gave 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 shared with a publication.
Previously, the band contributed their winnings to the local youth club that supported their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
Additionally the 1994 recipients the group contributed their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was ample," stated vocalist Small. "The prize was the bonus but we could do without the cherry, because we had the cake. So our success affected somebody else's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had saved several small stages in that region, by transferring them to community ownership.
One venue in the city and The Croft in the city were purchased under the community ownership program, which is supported by Arts Council England and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the properties.
