The artist has given the full amount of his £25k honor winnings to the trust for venues, which functions to preserve the UK's independent music venues.
He was given the prize on 16 October as his new release People Watching was named the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the MVT, in recognition of the vital role grassroots venues fulfilled in his early career.
"I personally would not have achieved what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the performances I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," said the artist. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help local stages.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
The money assisted venues that were facing imminent closure due to difficulties stemming from water damage, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Other venues received monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from shows in major spaces helps the independent spots, where it all starts for performers like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
The musician is not the first artist to give his honor prize money to good deeds.
Back when Pulp won the trophy in 1996 for their album the album, frontman the singer announced that the act would contribute their prize money to the charity War Child.
In 2002, musician the artist split her prize among multiple good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I donated a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they needed better apparatus," she explained to outlets.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
And winners that year the group donated their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was diagnosed the illness.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," stated singer Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the honor. So our winning touched another person's life."
Recently, the trust revealed it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by placing them under local control.
One venue in that area and the other in that location were acquired under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is backed by a national body and enthusiasts who acquire "shares" in the venues.
