The artist has donated the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to the trust for venues, which works to preserve the United Kingdom's small live music spots.
Fender was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his latest record the album was declared the top album of the previous year.
Fender has opted to hand the money over to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the vital role small stages fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the region, and beyond, when I was beginning," said Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – roughly 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, major artists including Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a modest fee to their ticket costs, which goes to help independent venues.
Sam Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his live tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation assisted locations that were dealing with possible closure due to issues stemming from water damage, fires and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and noise complaints.
Other venues received financial assistance in improving amenities and sound and lighting systems that helped musicians and fans.
"The concept that money from concerts in large arenas backs the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just sensible," the star has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his honor funds to good deeds.
In Pulp earned the award in the year 1996 for their album Different Class, vocalist Cocker declared that the band would donate their prize money to the organization War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer she divided her bounty between a few charities, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I contributed a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they required better apparatus," the artist told the media.
In recent years, they donated their winnings to the local youth club that developed their act, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
And 1994 winners they gave their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was diagnosed the disease.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," stated artist Small. "The money was the bonus but we didn't need the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning affected another person's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had saved two small stages in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
One venue in that area and The Croft in that location were bought under the public acquisition program, which is backed by the arts council and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the properties.
