The artist has given the entirety of his £25k award winnings to the MVT, which works to preserve the UK's independent music venues.
Fender was awarded the cheque on 16 October as his new release People Watching was declared the top album of the past year.
The musician has opted to give the cash to the trust, in appreciation of the crucial part local spots played in his beginning days.
"I would not have achieved my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," remarked Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – approximately one-sixth of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, major artists including the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by adding a modest fee to their admission fees, which benefits local stages.
He also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to support 38 grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds helped locations that were confronting imminent closure due to issues arising from flooding, fires and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues were granted funding support in improving amenities and technical equipment that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The notion that money from performances in big venues helps the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is not the first artist to give his award winnings to good deeds.
In they received the award in the mid-90s for their release Different Class, lead singer the singer stated that the band would donate their cash to the charity War Child.
That year, artist Ms Dynamite shared her bounty across multiple good causes, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also contributed a grand to my local community centre, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they required better apparatus," she told a publication.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the local youth club that supported their group, in addition to other local music groups.
Additionally winners that year M People contributed their winnings to a MS organization after a acquaintance was diagnosed the condition.
"The victory was ample," remarked vocalist the singer. "The money was the cherry on top but we didn't require the extra, because we had the main prize. So our winning impacted somebody else's life."
Last week, the trust shared it had saved two small stages in south-east England, by placing them under community ownership.
One venue in the city and the second in the city were purchased under the community ownership initiative, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
