The artist has handed over the complete sum of his £25,000 honor prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the Britain's independent live music spots.
He was awarded the award on 16 October as his latest record the album was named the outstanding release of the past year.
Fender has chosen to hand the money over to the MVT, in recognition of the crucial part local spots had in his early career.
"I wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the region, and further afield, when I was just getting going," said Sam Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – roughly 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its attempts to help venues survive, by applying a modest fee to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also joined in, generating in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds assisted locations that were dealing with possible closure due to challenges arising from floods, blazes and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in improving infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that helped musicians and fans.
"The notion that funds from performances in big venues supports the smaller venues, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
He is not the first artist to contribute his honor funds to charitable organizations.
When they won the award in the mid-90s for their album their work, vocalist Jarvis Cocker stated that the group would give their prize money to the non-profit the charity.
In 2002, rapper and singer she split her bounty among a few good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed updated gear," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the community center that supported their act, alongside other independent music bodies.
And winners that year the group gave their award to a MS organization after a close contact was found to have the disease.
"The victory was quite enough," remarked vocalist Small. "The money was the bonus but we didn't require the extra, because we had the cake. So our success touched another person's life."
In the past week, the trust revealed it had saved several local spots in south-east England, by placing them under community ownership.
One venue in the city and The Croft in Bristol were purchased under the public acquisition scheme, which is funded by the arts council and supporters who buy "shares" in the venues.
