The artist has donated the complete sum of his £25,000 award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the United Kingdom's independent live music spots.
Fender was presented with the award on mid-October as his third album his work was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
He has decided to hand the money over to the MVT, in appreciation of the essential function local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I personally would not have achieved this success if it weren't for all the shows I did around the area, and further afield, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These locations are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these spaces have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, major artists such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to support the industry, by adding a modest fee to their ticket prices, which benefits independent venues.
Sam Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his recent tour to help numerous small stages across the UK.
The money assisted locations that were facing imminent closure due to challenges arising from flooding, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and sound issues.
Some locations were granted funding support in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted artists and fans.
"The notion that funds from shows in major spaces backs the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just logical," the star has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to give his honor funds to good deeds.
Back when Pulp won the prize in 1996 for their album their work, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would contribute their winnings to the organization the charity.
During 2002, artist she shared her prize across a few good causes, such as the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they required better apparatus," the artist explained to outlets.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their winnings to the community center that developed their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year M People contributed their award to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was diagnosed the condition.
"The victory was ample," stated singer Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the main prize. So our victory affected another person's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved a couple of local spots in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
One venue in that area and the other in that location were acquired under the community ownership initiative, which is backed by the arts council and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
