The star has donated the full amount of his £25k award winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to protect the United Kingdom's small concert spaces.
Fender was given the award on 16 October as his new release People Watching was declared the top album of the last 12 months.
The musician has chosen to give the cash to the MVT, in recognition of the essential function local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing this success if it hadn't been for all the gigs I performed around the North East, and further afield, when I was just getting going," stated the artist. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these venues have permanently closed – about 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, major artists such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a modest fee to their ticket prices, which goes to help local stages.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help 38 local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation supported locations that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues caused by water damage, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted funding support in modernizing infrastructure and gear that helped musicians and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from shows in major spaces backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for performers like me, is just sensible," Fender has commented.
The musician is far from the only musician to donate his award winnings to charitable organizations.
When they earned the award in 1996 for their release their work, vocalist Cocker stated that the band would donate their winnings to the charity the charity.
In 2002, musician she divided her prize among multiple good causes, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," the artist explained to the media.
In recent years, they donated their prize money to the community center that supported their band, in addition to other local music groups.
And winners that year M People contributed their winnings to a MS organization after a close contact was diagnosed the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The cash was the extra but we could do without the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our victory affected somebody else's life."
In the past week, the trust shared it had rescued a couple of local spots in south-east England, by placing them under community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and the other in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is funded by Arts Council England and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
