The star has handed over the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to preserve the Britain's small live music spots.
Fender was awarded the award on mid-October as his latest record People Watching was named the top album of the previous year.
He has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the vital role small stages played in his early career.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the shows I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," said Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these spaces have shut down – approximately 16% of the total UK scene.
In the last year, well-known musicians including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its initiatives to support the industry, by adding a small levy to their ticket costs, which benefits independent venues.
Fender also joined in, collecting more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds assisted venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to challenges stemming from floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces received funding support in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from concerts in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his honor winnings to good deeds.
In the band earned the trophy in 1996 for their record Different Class, frontman the singer declared that the act would give their prize money to the organization the charity.
That year, musician Ms Dynamite split her prize among a few organizations, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I gave a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked new equipment," the artist explained to a publication.
In recent years, they donated their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their act, as well as other independent music bodies.
Additionally the 1994 recipients the group contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was diagnosed the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," said singer Small. "The money was the bonus but we didn't need the extra, because we had the cake. So our victory touched the lives of others."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had protected two grassroots venues in south-east England, by transferring them to community ownership.
The first in the city and the other in Bristol were acquired under the community ownership initiative, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the properties.
