The artist contributes twenty-five thousand pounds cash award to grassroots music venues

The star has donated the full amount of his £25,000 award winnings to the MVT, which operates to save the United Kingdom's independent music venues.

The star was given the prize on 16 October as his third album his work was chosen as the best record of the last 12 months.

He has chosen to donate the funds to the MVT, in recognition of the essential function local spots played in his initial steps.

"I couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the gigs I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated Sam Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are facing challenges."

Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these locations have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.

In the last year, top acts including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help independent venues.

He also joined in, raising over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to support numerous grassroots venues across Britain.

The donation assisted spaces that were facing potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from flooding, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and sound issues.

Additional spaces obtained funding support in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that helped performers and audiences.

"The notion that revenue from shows in big venues supports the smaller venues, where it begins for performers like me, is just logical," Fender has said.

The musician is not the first artist to give his honor prize money to charitable organizations.

Back when Pulp earned the prize in the mid-90s for their album the album, lead singer Cocker stated that the band would contribute their prize money to the non-profit War Child.

During 2002, artist she split her bounty across multiple good causes, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.

"I also gave a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," the artist told the media.

In recent years, they contributed their prize money to the local youth club that supported their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.

Also the 1994 recipients the group contributed their winnings to a MS organization after a close contact was diagnosed the disease.

"Receiving the award was ample," said vocalist the singer. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the cake. So our winning impacted another person's life."

Last week, the trust announced it had rescued two local spots in that region, by transferring them to community ownership.

The first in Southampton and the other in that location were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the properties.