The artist has handed over the complete sum of his £25,000 award winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the Britain's small concert spaces.
Fender was given the award on mid-October as his third album the album was named the best record of the previous year.
The musician has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the crucial part grassroots venues fulfilled in his early career.
"I would not have achieved my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have ceased operations – roughly 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, well-known musicians like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by adding a modest fee to their ticket costs, which goes to help local stages.
Sam Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted locations that were confronting imminent closure due to issues arising from water damage, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted funding support in modernizing infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that helped musicians and concertgoers.
"The notion that money from shows in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is far from the only musician to give his award funds to worthy causes.
When they won the award in 1996 for their record the album, vocalist Cocker announced that the act would contribute their prize money to the charity War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer she divided her award across a few good causes, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," she told the media.
Previously, the band contributed their winnings to the local youth club that nurtured their group, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Additionally 1994 winners they gave their prize to a MS organization after a acquaintance was identified with the illness.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," remarked artist Heather Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the honor. So our victory touched the lives of others."
Last week, the MVT shared it had rescued two local spots in that region, by bringing them into local control.
The first in Southampton and the second in the city were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is supported by the arts council and enthusiasts who buy "stakes" in the venues.
