The artist has given the entirety of his £25k award winnings to the trust for venues, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's independent concert spaces.
Fender was given the cheque on 16 October as his new release People Watching was named the outstanding release of the past year.
He has opted to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role small stages fulfilled in his early career.
"I personally would not have achieved what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – roughly 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Recently, major artists including the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by including a small levy to their ticket prices, which supports smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his recent tour to support thirty-eight small stages across the UK.
The donation assisted locations that were facing imminent closure due to challenges arising from flooding, fires and personal losses, as well as permit problems, court cases and neighbor objections.
Some locations obtained funding support in upgrading infrastructure and gear that directly benefitted musicians and fans.
"The idea that revenue from performances in big venues helps the smaller venues, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just common sense," the star has commented.
He is far from the only musician to give his honor prize money to charitable organizations.
In the band won the award in 1996 for their album their work, lead singer the singer stated that the band would donate their cash to the non-profit the charity.
That year, musician she split her bounty across multiple charities, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they required new equipment," the artist told the media.
Previously, Ezra Collective gave their prize money to the community center that nurtured their act, in addition to other local music groups.
Additionally winners that year they donated their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was diagnosed the illness.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," remarked artist the singer. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the honor. So our winning impacted somebody else's life."
In the past week, the trust revealed it had saved several grassroots venues in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and The Croft in that location were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is funded by Arts Council England and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
